La vertu et vsage des fontaines de Pougues en Nyuernois
Subtitle: et administration de la douche
By: Par I. Pidoux Medecin du Roy & Doyen de la faculté de Medecine à Poictiers. Discours qui peut seruir aus fontaines de Spa & autres de pareil goust
Series: French books before 1601 -- reel 63, item 14
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de Iean Blanchet
Published: 1597
Place of publication: Poictiers [Poitiers]
Language: fre; lat
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Hydrotherapy; Early works to 1800; Mineral waters
Other titles: Vertu et usage des fontaines de Pougues en Nyvernois.; Vertu et usage des fontaines de Pougues en Nivernois.; Io. Pidvxii Pictaviensis Sententia de febrium sede.; Sententia de febrium sede.
Notes: Description of the springs of Pougues and their benefits and a discussion of the beneficial uses of showers for various emotional and physical ailments; a treatise on fevers is appended.

Treatise on fevers: Io. Piduxii Pictauiensis Sententia de febrium sede (p. 1-14 at end)

Some passages in the main (French) text are in Latin.

Headpieces ; initials ; tailpieces ; printed marginalia.

Originally published anonymously in Paris, 1584; 1584 ed. attributed to Jean Pidoux. Cf. BN.

Brunet v. 4, p. 639.

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 351.