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[8], 91 (i.e. 93), [18] ff. Large woodcut printer's device on leaf Aa8 verso.  (8vo) 16x10 cm (6¼x4") modern paste-paper boards. First Edition.

One of the earliest textbooks of its kind, and unique in that it is a handbook of treatment rather than a treatise on diseases, hence its importance in understanding the medical pediatric practices of the era. “Leonelli’s book consists of 33 chapters mostly on common diseases such as diarrhea, constipation, earache, abscesses of the head, weak stomach, disturbed sleep.  His method is simple.  He names the disease, gives its cause and then proceeds to its cure.  It is really a handbook of pediatric therapeutics and he makes much of fomentations, inunctions, and the external use of oils.”--Ruhrah, pp. 139-141.  Still, pp. 104-107.  Grulee 496.  Durling 4668. Bookplate of the Kings County Medical Society on the front pastedown.