Maximiliani Stoll - Rationis medendi - 1787

Fascinating edition of this important eighteenth-century treatise on clinical medicine, which seeks to organize the art of healing around the methodical observation of diseases, the examination of symptoms, the establishment of diagnosis, and the reasoned choice of treatment.

Maximilian Stoll, a leading Austrian physician and professor at the University of Vienna, aligns himself with a medical current that attaches growing importance to clinical experience and the repeated observation of patients rather than to theoretical speculation alone.

The Latin title, which can be understood as a “method of treating” or a “reason of therapeutics,” precisely expresses the physician’s ambition to search for a logic in medical practice and to determine, from the signs observed, which interventions can be employed against the various ailments.

The work rests on a fundamentally clinical conception of medicine, in which the physician must learn to observe the patient carefully, to record symptoms with precision, to follow their evolution over time, and to compare different pathological patterns in order to distinguish diseases from one another.

Maximiliani Stoll - Rationis medendi - 1787 - 3 partes en un volumen - Petrum J. Duplain -
396 / (6), 251 Pages.

Good binding condition, the work in its original full marbled leather, wear through use, minor defects on boards and spine, caps slightly damaged, wear at edges, joints and corners, speckled edges, smooth spine adorned with gilt motifs, gilded title on a morocco-panel, thinly tooled borders framing the boards -

Good interior condition, light browning, a beautiful vignette on the title page, pretty headbands, tailpieces, 3 parts in one volume, continuous pagination for the first two, endpapers marbleized in good condition, a pleasing copy -

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