Observationes medico-practicae, de affectibus capitis internis & externis. . .

Tiguri: apud Heideggerum & Soc., 1745. editio altera. All blanks present. Portrait of the author, woodcut head- and tailpieces, full-page engraving. Contemporary vellum, sprinkled edges; an excellent copy. Later edition (editio altera) of Wepfer’s comprehensive treatise on brain diseases, first printed posthumously in 1727. This edition includes an excellent biography of the author. Wepfer (620-1695), one of the most prominent Swiss physicians of the seventeenth century, “was appointed city physician at Schaffhausen and some years later became personal physician to the Duke of Würtemberg. He also served as physician to the Marquis de Dourlach, Charles the Elector Palatine, and the army of Emperor Leopold. Wepfer’s scientific works were characterized by keen insight, wide knowledge, and careful observation” (Heirs of Hippocrates, 534).