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Extremely RARE & important title. TEXT in SPANISH. España. First & only edition, published in Madrid in 1769. The title roughly translates into English as "Political & Medical Considerations for the Health of Seafarers (Navigators), Setting out the Causes of the Most Frequent Diseases, Ways to Forestall Them and Heal Them. With Instructions for the Best System for Naval Surgeons Making the Journey to America, Especially Those of The Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas, to Lead to Greater Success in Methods for Healing the Sick". Full title (in Spanish as issued) from title page as follows: "Consideraciones Politico-Medicas Sobre la Salud de los Navegantes, en Que se Exponen las Causas de sus Mas Frecuentes Enfermedades, Modo de Precaverlas, y Curarlas. Con las Conducentes Instrucciones Para el Mejor Regimen de los Cirujanos de Navios; Que Hacen Viage a la America, Especialmente Para los de la Real Compania Guipuzcoana de Caracas, a fin de que con Mayor Acierto se Conduzcan, asi en el Methodo Curativo de los Enfermos, Como en el Manejo de los Botiquines de su Cargo. - Su Autor El Doctor D. Vicente de Lardizabal, Medico de la Ciudad de San Sebastian. Quien las Dedica a la Direccion de la Misma Real Compania". Contents in three parts. Contains several short sections, with sub-titles including Consideraciones generales sobre las enfermedades de Marina; Purification del Ayre; Sobre el Agua; Sobre las enfermedades ordinarias; Medios para ocurrir a ellas; De los Accidos vegetables; Instruccion para que los Cirujanos de la Real Compania de Caracas sepan ocurrir a los casos repentinos; Del Syncope; De la Hemorragia; De la Diarrhea; De la Disenteria; Del Delirio, De la Convuslion, De la Pharmacia; Inutilidad de los Jaraves; De los Remedios Chymicos; De la Mixtion; De las Infusiones, De los Cocimientos; De las Emulsiones, etc. NO ILLUSTRATIONS. Author "Vicente Dubois Lardizabal (1746-1814) was a Spanish doctor who was born & died in San Sebastian. It is unknown where he studied medicine, however his youthful education allowed him to meet with Latin & French sufficiency, & throughout his life used the title of Doctor of Medicine. He began to practice in his hometown before 1769. In 1772 he became a doctor in the Real Compania Guipuzcoana de Caracas (The Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas), but he never embarked. His first published work was Consideraciones Politico-Medicas Sobre la Salud de los Navegantes (1769). It was intended for sugeons who were shipped, & relies on a combination of the doctrines of Hermann Boerhaave & Andres Piquer, with the experience provided by physicians such as James Lind, Louis Rouppe, & Richard Mead, who was especially proficient in naval medicine. Three problems of health aboard ships concerned Lardizabal: ventilation (the proposed solutions show a good understanding of the physics of gases), the preservation of drinking water, & the abuse of drugs, especially purgatives." The Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas was a Spanish Basque trading company in the 18th century, operating from 1728 to 1785, which had a monopoly on Venezuelan trade. Laid paper. Bound in contemporary full vellum. Partial manuscript lettering to spine: "(-) de Mariuo". Ex-library copy (& same library's "Withdrawn" stamps) with printed library labels to front pastedown & small ink-stamp to 10 pages (title page, 8 internal pages, & rear pastedown), lacks top portion of spine (4cm), first signature loose, vellum spotted & soiled with age & rippled, mild marginal foxing, internally clean & bright except for 8 pages with small ink-stamp as mentioned. Overall a GOOD clean complete copy. A total of 247 pages. Full pagination as follows: ffep; title page; [blank]; 14pp (prologo); + 6pp (introducion); + 2pp (contents, including advertencia); + 220pp; + 4pp (indice alphabetico de cosas notables); rear endpaper. VERY RARE. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001291
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