1737 Sanctorius MEDICINA Statica medical aphorisms METABOLISM quantitative data

Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - SCARCE IN SUCH BRIGHT AND CLEAN CONDITION - REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF MEDICAL APHORISMS BASED ON THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY THE ITALIAN PHYSICIAN IN HIS SPECIALLY DESIGNED CHAIR -SANCTORIUS (Santorio, also called Santorio Santorio, Santorio de' Sanctoriis, or Sanctorius of Padua[3] and various combinations of these names, was an Italian physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into the life sciences and is considered the father of modern quantitative experimentation in medicine. He is also known as the inventor of several medical devices. His work De Statica Medicina, written in 1614, saw many publications and influenced generations of physicians, 1561-1636); QUINCY (John, English apothecary known as a medical writer, d.1722).Medicina statica: being the aphorisms of Sanctorius, translated into English, with large explanations. To which is added, Dr. Keil’s Medicina statica britannica, with comparative Remarks and Explanations. as also Medico-Physical essays on I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An Elastic Fibre IV. The Gout. V. The Leprosy. VI. The King’s Evil. Vii. The Venereal Disease. The fifth edition. By John Quincy, M. D. (London): T. Longman, 1737. Fifth English edition. viii, 463, [17, index] pp. Engraved frontispiece, and one folding plate at rear. Two parts, consecutive page numbering, and second part with its own title page and preface. Rebound in the mid-20th century by Sydney Aiken (his label to rear pastedown) in half leather over marbled boards. Spine in compartments, with two gilt lettered labels. Size: 8vo (20cm x 12.7cm).Very Good to Near Fine condition. A superior example in most respects. Pages bright and clean. Light age-toning to rear of frontispiece, which bleeds faintly through in a couple of small areas to the printed side. Slight mis-folding and edge-wear to plate at rear. Small worm trail in upper blank margin of last 9 leaves, with some professional and discreet conservation, and a tiny puncture hole in folding plate. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A bright and remarkably clean example of this collection of medical aphorisms by the Italian physician Santorio Sanctorius, followed by observations by John Quincy (two parts in one). ⁂ Sanctorius studied the so-called perspiratio insensibilis or insensible perspiration of the body, already known to Galen and other ancient physicians, and originated the study of metabolism. For a period of thirty years, Santorio used a chair-device to weigh himself and everything he ate and drank, as well as his urine and feces. He compared the weight of what he had eaten to that of his waste products, the latter being considerably smaller because for every eight pounds of food he ate, he excreted only 3 pounds of waste. Santorio also applied his weighing device to study his patients, but records of these experiments have been lost.His notable conclusion on finding this was that: "Insensible Perspiration is either made by the Pores of the Body, which is all over perspirable, and cover’d with a Skin like a Net; or it is performed by Respiration through the Mouth, which usually, in the Space of one Day, amounts to about the Quantity of half a Pound, as may plainly be made appear by breathing upon a Glass."This important experiment is the origin of the significance of weight measurement in medicine. While his experiments were replicated and augmented by his followers and were finally surpassed by Antoine Lavoisier in 1790, he is still celebrated as the father of experimental physiology. The 'weighing chair', which he constructed and employed during this experiment is also famous. key words:

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