[14], 320, [16] pp. Frontispiece. (8vo) early full vellum. First Edition.
Hellwig wrote 31 books and half a dozen tracts in his own name on medicine, surgery anatomy, botany, pharmacy, physics, etc. He appeared under pseudonyms Valentin Kräutermann, Gaspar Schroeder, and Constant Aletophilus Herzberger, and he edited works by his brother, Johann Otto von Hellwig, and by Sebastian Wirdig, Francken von Franckenau, Cardilucius, Conrad Kunrath, and others. --Blake, p. 205. Waller 4278, cites a later edition of 1737 that seeme identical to ours. BMC, XIV, shows later editions only. Not in Wellcome, Duveen, Ferguson, Mellon, Caillet, Graesse, or Neu.