Tractatus de morbo mucoso

Second Latin edition, illustrated with 3 folding plates at the end.
Contemporary half sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 3 grotesque compartments, 2 fleurons. Red glazed calf title label. Headcaps worn. Joints cracked at head and foot. Foxing.
Exhaustive study of typhoid, which the authors confuse with dysentery and other common fevers. During the severe typhoid epidemic that raged in Göttingen from 1757 to 1763, Roederer, professor of medicine in the same city, published in 1762 (with the help of his assistant Wagler who performed autopsies on the bodies) a very precise account of the development of the disease. Important work on the subject.