‎"FIORAVANTI, LEONARDO.‎
‎Del Compendio de' Secreti rationali, libri Cinqve. Nel primo de' quali si tratta de' secreti piu importanti nella professione medicinale. Nel secondo s' insegnano molti secreti appartenenti alla cirugia...Aggiuntoui in questa nostra ultima impres...‎

‎Venetia, Zaccaria Conzatti, 1660. 8vo. Marbled boards (a bit later). Some scratches to spine and along hinges. Old name to titlepage. Small stamps on verso of titelapge with a handwritten note from a contemporary owner. Some scattered brownspots, mostly marginal. Some leaves with a faint dampstain to lower right corners. (32),320 pp.‎

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‎Fioravanti's much used compendium have 5 parts dealing with the major diseases, treatment of wounds, alchemy, cosmetics (..si scriouno molti Beletti, che usano le donne per apparer belle), etc. The present edition is probably the last.""Fioravanti, a celebrated physician and alchemist of Bologna, was primarily a compiler of the opinions, techniques, ""recipes,"" etc., of other physicians, and many of his works deal with the ""secrets"" and ""mysteries"" of medicine, alchemy, and the more esoteric and occult philosophies of his time. Still, enough of his medical and surgical work is of sufficient interest and importance to warrant his mention in the history of these subjects. In the cloudy picture, the question whether Vesalius, Berengario, Fallopius, and others may have performed human vivisection, the name of Fioravanti stands out sharply, since he calmly allowed that he had performed living dissection on a Saracen--his infidelity apparently being sufficient justification. The present work (refering to the 1597-edition) is probably the sixth edition of a highly regarded handbook of medicine which contains five books devoted to various aspects of medicine, surgery, alchemy, and cosmetics. First published in 1564, this popular book remained in publication until the mid-seventeenth century."" (Heirs of Hippocrates No. 312). - Waller: 3050. - Ferguson I, p. 277 (1564-edition).‎