L'art de conserver sa sante, compose par l'Ecole de Salerne

Amsterdam: chez les libraires associes, 1776. Soft cover. Good. 16mo (171 x 95mm). 113pp. Translated by B.[ruzen de] L.[a] M.[artiniËre]. Text in French with chapters on discourse from to School of Salerno with chapters on ailments and benefits of good nutrition. Epistle dedicated to Monsieur Du Perron, Docteur de la FacultÈ de MÈdecine. Later blue wrappers with booksellerís waste used as pastedowns, edges uncut, inscribed with ms. title to front cover; (uniformly browned at edges; spine perished, hinges loose hanging by ties). Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance the University of Salerno played an invaluable role in the history of medicine. The Italian school provided a forum for theoretical and practical medicine and for surgery, based not only on the study of ancient Greek and Latin texts, but on the examination of patients who were staying in the University hospital. In true secular spirit, the school was opened to all nations and all religions, combining its practices harmoniously with Arabic and Hebrew traditions. This combination of different cultures led to a wider medical knowledge. Students, women as well as men, had participated in a curriculum which fused philosophy, theology and law. A classic pocket manual on the influential School of Salerno and its teachings.