‎ROTTBÖLL, CHRISTIAN FRIIS.‎
‎Specimen Inaugurale Medicum Editurus, Theoriam Balneorum, Methodo, Qua Fieri Potuit, Geometrica Pertractatam, Auctoritate Clarissimorum in Arte Medica Virorum Corroboratam, Variisque Observationibus Illustratam, Præside Viro Amplissimo et Longe Celebe...‎

‎Hafniae (Copenhagen), Nicolai Johannis Mölleri, 1755. 4to. In later marbled paper wrappers. Brownspotted throughout. (6), 69 pp.‎

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‎Rare first edition of Christian Friis Rottbøll’s doctoral dissertation on the theory and medical uses of baths and balneology defended under Christian Lodberg Friis. Christian Friis Rottbøll (1727–1797) was a prominent Danish physician and botanist, and a disciple of Linnaeus, later becoming professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and superintendent of the botanical garden. ‎