Vesalius, the China root epistle
Subtitle: a new translation and critical edition
By: Andreas Vesalius ; [translated and edited by] Daniel H. Garrison ; with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica
Contributors: Garrison, Daniel H.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781107026353
Subjects: Anatomy; Phytotherapy; Therapeutic use; Smilax; Plant Preparations
Work titles: Epistola, rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti
Description: "In this work on the discovery and therapeutic use of the china root in the treatment of syphilis, Vesalius described the first attempt to formulate methods of identification of an exotic drug. He also offered physicians an opportunity to determine whether or not a drug coming into common use might be adulterated. The work contains Vesalius's defense of his anatomical methods and doctrines as described in the Fabrica (No. 375), as well as important autobiographical data."--Garrison & Morton (1991)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.