Dissertatio inauguralis medica de lapide manati
Subtitle: quam Deo benedicente, rectore magnificentissimo, serenissimo principe ac domino Dn. Friderico Wilhelmo, marchione Brandenb. electoratus herede E. R. Iussu gratiosae facultatis medicae sub praesidio excellentissimi viri Dn. Georgii Ernesti Stahl, med. doct. ac. prof. publ. h. t. decani patroni, praeceptoris ac promotoris sui aetatem colendi, pro licentia summos in arte medica honores, juraque & privilegia legitime capessendi, ad d. XXIX. jun. MDCXCIX horis ante- & pomeridianis
By: publicae eruditorum disquisitioni proponet Leopoldus Albertus Labach, nimicensis Silesius
Contributors: Labach, Leopold Albert, 1675-
Publisher: typis Christiani Henckelii, Acad. typ.
Published: 1699
Place of publication: Halae Magdeburgicae [i.e. Halle, Germany]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Manatees; Tusks; Aquatic animals; Materia medica; Academic Dissertations
Notes: Dissertation addressing the four small bones found in the head of the manatee (possibly their large earbones?). The second part of the text deals with medical uses of the substance, and the tusks of other aquatic animals, which figured in a variety of potions.

Signatures: A-C⁴ (A1 verso blank)

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Thesis (doctoral) -- Universität Halle, 1699.