Gynaeciorum, hoc est, de mulierum tum aliis, tum gravidarum, parientium & puerperarum affectibus & morbis
Subtitle: libri veterum ac recentiorum aliquot, partim nunc primum editi, partim multo quam antea castigatiores quorum catalogum sequens pagella dabit cum indicibus capitum in uniuersum, titulorum, rerum ac verborum praecipuè in his memorabilium, locupletissimis, fidelissimisq́[ue]
Contributors: Mustio; Wolf, Hans Kaspar, 1532-1601, editor; Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?; Guarin, Thomas, 1529-1592, printer; Trotula; Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565; La Roche, Nicolas de, active 1542; Bonacciuoli, Luigi, -approximately 1540; Dubois, Jacques, 1478-1555
Publisher: Per Thomam Guarinum
Published: 1566
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 868
Subjects: Gynecology; Early works to 1800; Obstetrics; Women; Diseases; Generative organs; Conception; Menstruation; Menopause; Midwifery
Other titles: Gynaeciorvm, hoc est, de mulierum tum aliis; Siue potius Erotis medici muliebrium liber; De morbius mulierum curandis liber; Muliebriu[m] liber; De mensibus muliebrib. liber
Description: Considered to be the first encylopedia of gynecology and obstetrics. Complied by Conrad Gesner, but completed, with additional material, by Hans Wolf and published one year after Gesner's death. Text contains the first edition of Moschion. Cf. Garrison-Morton (5th edition), 6011.
Notes: Text has [432] pages containing columns 5-868.

Text printed in two columns.

Printer's device on t.p.; another on last leaf verso with: "Palmaising".

Includes index; printed marginal notes.

Errata notes on p. [21]

Issued with: "Moschion (Physician) De morbis mulieribus Moschiōnos peri gynakeiōn pathōn."; published in Basileae by Thomam Guarinum in 1566.

BM STC German 1455-1600, p. 926

Adams, W243

Garrison-Morton (5th edition), 6011

Heirs of Hippocrates, 364

In Latin with Greek references.
Table of contents: title: Gynaeciorum, siue affectus aliquot mulierum grauissimos ... curandi ratio: ex praesta[n]tissimi inter Arabes medici Albucasis medendi methodi libro II.; title: Trotulae, siue potius Erotis medici ... muliebrium liber ...; title: Nicolai Rochei ... de morbius mulierum curandis liber ...; title: Ludouici Bonacioli ... muliebriu[m] liber ...; title: Iacobi Syluii ... de mensibus muliebrib. liber.