Lot 209
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CASTRO [Rodericas a]
De universa muliebrium morborum medicina
Auction: 8 July 2003 at 12:00 BST
Description
... Pars prima theorica [Pars secunda, sive praxis] ... 4ed, 2 parts, titlepage to the first part in red and black with a vignette, fldg. table in part 2 [bound with]
CASTRO [Rodericas a]
Medicus-politicus: sive de officiis medico-politicis tractatus. Quatuor distinctus libris: in quibus non solumbonorum medicorum mores ac virtutes exprimuntur ... Paper discolouration of both works throughout, library stamp on verso of front. endpaper, repeated in margins of Ll2 of Part 1 the first work, and on F2 of the second work, edges of the first few leaves of the first part of the first work a little frayed, lacking the final endpaper, contemporary vellum, 4to., Hamburg: apud Zachariam Hertelium, 1642 [ ex bibliopolio Zachariae Hertelii, 1642 for the second work]
Garrison & Morton 5ed 1759 for the Medicus-politicus
Extensive work on the diseases and health of women covering anatomy, menstruation, birth (including defects and abortion), venereal diseases (fluor albus, gonorrhoea, etc.), hermaphoditism, etc. , by the Lisbon Jewish Castro (1546? -1617?) who held chairs at Pisa and Hamburg successively. Castro tells of a pregnant woman who so strongly desired to eat the shoulder of a baker, that she killed him,salted the body, and consumed it at intervals.
His Medicus-politicus is described by Garrison and Morton as "one of the first "modern" works on medical ethics" and played an important part in the development of the newly emerging discipline of legal medicine. Castiglioni History of medicine 2ed, p. 558