Casus Medico-Chirurgicus De Effractura Cranii & Subsecutis gravissimis symptomatibus divina gratia ex voto curatis Cum notis de capite ejusque affectibus in quibus Extracta plurimorum Auctorum Anatomica atque Practicae ... Nec non in calce Casuum Medico-Chirurgicorum de capitis pracipue passionibus, rariorum, Deo benedicente feliciter curatorum Decas ....

Suevo-Hallensis: Impensis Auctoris ...., [1711] 1712. First Edition. Second issue.. Unusual 18th century paper covered paste paper boards (original). A contemporary gilt paper decorated with swirling vines (a bit faded); a.e.g. & gauffered. A presentation binding from the author (?) - there is a similar binding on a copy in Bavaria.. Very good; some wear to the spine; some tide marks to the preliminary pages.. 8vo, double page title, [84], 135, [1 - blank], 40, [8 - errata] pp. Text in Latin.

A remarkable and little known monograph on head trauma and its ramifications. The book was published at the author's expense and has the hallmarks of a "special" production, i.e., attention to typography and binding. The work draws heavily on published sources - appended to the text is a 20 page index of the authorities cited, prior to an extensive subject index. The text itself is a detailed overview with a thicket of citations. But at the end is what is perhaps the most important section (40 pp.): an examination of 9 "typical" cases representing complex and perplexing ramifications of head trauma based on the author's experience. Each case is presented in detail with the first section stating the symptoms followed by a "resolution" giving the medicines administered and treatments along with the results. The author appears to have had a short life with only two other relatively brief publications in the years immediately after this work. He was among the early members and in the first generation participant to the work of the Deut. Aka. der Naturforscher Leopoldina. Blake p. 315; absent from Waller that has the reprint in 1716; OCLC showing a handful of copies in Europe (mostly defective) and one at the NLM. Bibliographic note: This copy does not have the single leaf title (to precede the double page title) that is dated 1711. It was in all likelihood cancelled by the printer when the book received its substantial textual additions obviously meant for inclusion. Proof lies with the copy of record cited by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and digitized (using a copy at Augsburg). The copy of record is lacking the 84 pages of index (inserted between the A and B signatures and partially signed * and **) and the all important separately paginated and signed addendum with the case studies and errata that are present here. The Preface is dated April 1710, showing that in the intervening months, it was amended while in press (the author, paying for the printing, was no doubt allowed such consideration by the printer), thereby making for at least two distinct issues.