Sentimenti d’Affetto, E Di Riconoscenza Degli Studenti Di Medicina Verso Il Loro Immortale Precettore Il Signor S.A.D. Tissot.
Pavia, P. Galeazzi 1783.
8vo (208 x 130 mm.). Frontis., viii, 104p. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Tissot (G. Mercoli after A. Guanzati).
Contemporary gilt green morocco (extremities rubbed, spine rubbed and faded), POUR MR TISSOT gilt-lettered on the front panel.
Only Edition, bound for the recipient of the volume’s adulation.
This tribute to the retiring medical professor and prolific author — famous for his work on the dangers of onanism — contains poems in Italian, German, Greek, English and Latin by seventy-two former students and professional colleagues. The odes, sonnets, elegies, canzoni and a single distich praise Tissot as the Swiss Asclepius and meditate on the practice of medicine. In nice condition.
¶Buck, The Dawn of Modern Medicine 103.
Price: $2,650.00