Medicae artis principes, post Hippocratem & Galenum
Subtitle: Graeci Latinitate donati, Aretaeus, Ruffus Ephesius, Oribasius, Paulus AEgineta [sic], Aëtius, Alex. Trallianus, Actuarius, Nic. Myrepsus. Latini, Corn. Celsus, Scrib. Largus, Marcell. Empiricus : aliíque praeterea, quorum unius nomen ignoratur : index non solùm copiosus, sed etiam ordine artificioso omnia digesta habens : Hippocr. aliquot loci cum Corn. Celsi interpretatione
Contributors: Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598, printer; Fugger, Ulricus, 1526-1584, printer; Rasario, Giovanni Battista, 1517-1578; Aetius, of Amida; Oribasius
Publisher: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus
Published: 1567
Place of publication: [Geneva]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 866
Subjects: Medicine; Early works to 1800; Greek and Roman Medicine
Work titles: Medicae artis principes
Notes: Henri Estienne's collection of the most important Greek, Roman and Byzantine medical writers, exclusive of Hippocrates and Galen, through the 13th century. Many of the works are translations into Latin from the original Greek (the Oribasius, for example, translated by Giovanni Battista Rosario, and the Aegineta by Janus Cornarius).

Printer's device with motto "Noli altum sapere" on the first title page; all of the subsequent pt. have divisional half-t.p. only; title to pt. 2 reads: "Oribasii Sardiani medici longè excellentissimi Opera, tribus tomis digesta, Ioanne Baptista Rasario interprete; title to pt. 3 reads; "Aetii medici Graeci contractae ex veteribus medicinae Tetrabiblos, hoc est quaternio, id est libri vniuersales quatuor"; pt. 4 has caption title "Actuarii Zachariae filii De spiritu animali libri duo ..." only; title to pt. 5 reads "Aurelii Cornelii Celsi De re medica libri octo, operis ab eo scripti de artibus, pars sexta."

The Oribasius is illustrated with 43 fine woodcuts, based on those in Gesner's Chirurgia. Zürich, 1555.

Place of publication from Adams.

Signatures: 2*⁴ a-2m⁶ 3A-4F⁶ 5A-6N⁶ 6O⁴ 3a-4c⁸ 4d⁶ ²3A-²3T⁶ (²3T6 blank) [alpha]-[iota]⁶.

Main body of text printed in double columns.

Includes index.

Woodcut Initials; decoration.

John G. Curtis Library.

Health Sciences Library copy contains handwritten list of author entries.

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), 55

Heirs of Hippocrates, 362

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, S1780

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p.129, no. 3

Schreiber, F. The Estiennes, 167

In Latin with Greek references, translation from Greek.