Louis Du Gardin/ Loys du Cardin, Hortensii manuductio per omnes medicinae partes. Seu institutiones medicinae [Hortensii manuductio ad pathologiam, seu institutionum medicinae pars altera]. Douai: Petri Auroy, 1626. Two parts in one octavo volume: [16]-408-[16], [16]-304 pages. Age-toned and some spotting, with small hole in folio G1. The year of the main title was originally ‘MDCXXV’, the final ‘I’ in this copy, as I other copies, has been added by hand. Bound in contemporary overlapping vellum, later red ink ms. title on spine (rests of leather ties, tear on upper flyleaf restored with tape; small defect on edge of rear cover). Jesuit College in Mons (ms. entry on title). FIRST edition. This is a manual on medicine printed for the students of the University of Douai. Part 2 has its own title, ‘Hortensii manuductio ad pathologiam…’. A third part, published posthumously 12 years after the listed book, in 1638. With pretty vignettes on the titles and two full-page copperplates in part 2: coat of arms of François de Paz, physician to King Philip IV of Spain, and an allegorical scene figuring medicine with arms of Paz and Du Gardin. (The image on the title page befits the printer’s address: three chicks feeding from a pelican._ Louis Du Gardin (in Latin ‘Gardinius’ or ‘Hortensius’), was born near Tournai in the mid-1500s and died in Douai in around 1633. He studied medicine in Louvain, was physician at Enghien, and from around 1606, was professor at Douai. The university of Douai was established by Philip II as part of a general programme of consolidation of the Spanish Low Countries under Habsburg rule. Lectures started in 1562, and medicine was taught. Of course, Douai lived in the shadows of Louvain, where Du Gardin undertook his medical training, but it could later boast amongst its faculty Amé Bourdon in surgery and anatomy, Michel Brisseau in ophthalmology, and Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois in medicine and botany. reflect the teachings at the Faculty of Medicine. Reference: Krivatsy 3497.