{"product_id":"gabuccini-hieronymus-with-altomari-donato-antonio","title":"GABUCCINI, Hieronymus. [with] ALTOMARI, Donato Antonio.","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst editions of these impressive medical works by Girolamo Gabuccini and Donato Antonio Altomari (1520-1556). Girolamo Gabuccini was an Italian physician who wrote on topics ranging from epilepsy to gout. This work focuses on parasitic worms and is the first separate treatise on the subject. The work was successful enough that a second, possibly pirated, edition appeared at Venice in 1547 and a third at Lyon in 1549. Although the parasites he discusses, like tapeworms, had been known since antiquity, Gabuccini was innovative in his approaches to understanding their formation and their treatment.  Gabuccini believed that the lesser heat in the intestine leads to tapeworm formation  (Egerton, Frank.  A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 12: Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology during the 1500s , 2004). Gabuccini also discusses the liver fluke (fasciola hepatica) of sheep and goats, first written about by the French sheep farmer Jean de Brie in 1379. He attempts to understand how it infects the animal as well as the possible life cycle of the parasite. The English naturalist and physician Thomas Moffet (1553-1604) produced a commentary and analysis of Gabuccini s work on parasites in his  Of the Signs and Cure of Worms out of Gabucinus .  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\nThe second work is by the Italian doctor Altomari, who was an ardent follower of Middle Eastern medical practices and methodology. It focuses on gastroenterological processes including digestion, absorption and  purgatione , or cleansing. Altomari was born in Naples and studied medicine under the classical schools of Hippocrates and Galen as well as Arabic works. He became acquainted with major Neapolitan academics including Tansillo and Della Porta, and was renowned for his lively debating skills and anti-Paracelsian ideology. He published prolifically but came under fire in 1552 when he was summoned to Rome on charges of heresy as part of the reforms instigated by the Theatines. Altomari died sometime after 1562 and is buried in Naples at the Church of S. Maria delle Grazier in the Altomari Chapel.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\nThis copy belonged to Pietro Antonio Vigada from Favria in Turin, who was a practising physician and the author of cure guides to common ailments such as fevers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GABUCCINI, Hieronymus. [with] ALTOMARI, Donato Antonio.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859633971535,"sku":"L3546","price":2350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3546-1.jpg?v=1781793785","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/gabuccini-hieronymus-with-altomari-donato-antonio","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}