The Foundation has recently acquired four new publications that have been incorporated into the collection of the Historical Library of Health Sciences:
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Matthioli Senensis, Andreae Petri. Apologia adversus amathum lusitanum cum censura in ejusdem enarrationes et peistolarum medicinalium libri V. Basileae: Typ. Joh. Rodolphus Genath, 1674. 236 p.
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Suárez de Ribera, Francisco. Cirugía sagrada método experimental racinal, que contra la pragmática apolínea de el doctor don Antonio Francisco Portichuelo y Zea, saco a luz su autor… Madrid: Imp. Francisco de el Hierro, 1726. 28 h. + 392 p.
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Horta, Pedro de. Informe medico-moral de la penosissima, y rigorosa enfermedad de la epilepsia. Madrid: Domingo Fernandez Arrojo, 1763. 284 p.
Among them, the most notable is the first Latin edition of:
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Hieronymi Tragi. De stirpium, maxime earum quae in Germania nostra nascuntur, usitatis nomenclaturis, propriisque differentiis, nec non temperaturis ac facultatibus, commentariorum libri tres. Argentorati: excudebat Vuendelinus Rihelius, 1552. [68], 1200, [64] p.: ill.; 4º; 24 cm.
This first Latin edition of 1552, published in Strasbourg, is considered a rare work. Its author, Hieronymus Bock, was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who initiated the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by classifying plants according to their similarities. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern botany.