[MEDICINE] Bontekoe, Cornelis - Grund-Sätze der Medicin und Chirurgie. Augsburg 1721

[MEDICINE] Bontekoe, Cornelis - Grund-Sätze der Medicin und Chirurgie, oder die Lehre vom Alcali und Acido durch Würckung der Fermentation und Effervescenz. [Erstlich in Holländischer Sprache [...] verteutschet durch Johann Caspar Reiss. Augsburg 1721, David Raymund Mertz. 8°, k. [17], p. 158; co. binding: embossed suede leather.

Cornelis Bontekoe - pseudonym of Dutch physician Cornelius Dekker (1640/1647-1685), popularizer of Descartes' theories in medicine and promoter of tea drinking!, court physician to the Great Elector in Berlin. 1st edition in German. (and the only one) of a specialized treatise on acids and their usefulness in medicine and surgery. Trace of old dampstain on title p., otherwise very good condition. Rare.