Thomae Bartholini de nivis usu medico observationes variae
Subtitle: accessit D. Erasmi Bartholini de figura nivis dissertatio; cum operum authoris catalogo
Contributors: Bartholin, Erasmus, 1625-1698
Publisher: Typis Matthiae Godicchii, Sumptibus Petri Haubold, Bibl
Published: 1661
Place of publication: Hafniae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Cryosurgery; Early works to 1800; Medicine
Description: Text makes first mention of the use of ice and snow for freezing to produce surgical anesthesia. Text by Erasmus Bartholin is earliest known text on crystallography. Operum authoris catalogo is a bibliography of the works of Thomas Bartholin.
Notes: Three parts in one volume.

Title page in red and black.

Printer's device on t.p. with: "In Conatv Labor."

De Figura Nivis Dissertatio and Operum Authoris Catalogo have special title pages.

Includes bibliographic references.

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 516

In Latin with Greek references.