Ortus medicinae, id est, initia physicae inaudita
Subtitle: progressus medicinae nouus, in morborum ultionem ad vitam longam
By: authore Joan. Baptista van Helmont ; edente authoris filio Francisco Mercurio van Helmont ; cum eius praefatione ex Belgico translata
Contributors: Galen; Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699; Huguetan, Jean-Antoine, 1619-1681?, bookseller; Barbier, Guillaume, -1692, bookseller; Eckhl, Wolffgang Antoni von, former owner
Edition: Editio quarta.
Publisher: Sumptibus Joan Ant. Huguetan & Guillielmi Barbier
Published: 1667
Place of publication: Lvgdvni
Language: lat
Subjects: Medicine; Early works to 1800; Biochemistry; Physiology; Fever; Digestion; Urine; Plague
Other titles: Initia physicae inaudita
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: "Ioannis Baptistae van Helmont ... opuscula media inaudita. Ed. 6., multò emendatior. Pars II."; has own title page; pagination separate, register continuous. Contains printer's device and "Cum Approbatione, et Permissu."

Pagination: v. 1: [24], 487, [1]; p. ; v. 2: 192, [58] p.

Illustrated title page.

"Cum Priuilegio Regis."; on p. [24], in front.

Includes half-title page with "Ioannis Baptiseae Van Helmont Opera."

Includes indexes; printed marginal notes.

Text in double columns; woodcut initials and decorations.

"Approbationes" on colophon verso.

Health Sciences Library hold two copies: copy 1: Jerome P. Webster Library of Plastic Surgery; copy 2: John G. Curtis Library.

Health Sciences Library copy two contains armorial bookplate of Wolffgang Antoni von Eckhl, author of Salus rediviva a fonte, das ist, Heyl- und Wundersames in dem hohen Ertz-Stifft Saltzburg ... 1750.

In Latin with Greek references.