[MEDICINE] Epistola admonitoria Iohannis Michaelis Bayer Oenipontani philosophiae et medicinae doctoris ad Franciscum Cimam medicum Venetum.

Padua : Typis Caroli Rizzardi, 1662. 16mo (140 x 86 mm), later full calf; pp. 142, 1, [1 blank]; title with woodcut vignette, and an early (ducal?) collection stamp in violet; a few leaves with loss at fore-edge margins (and with resultant loss of a couple of letters), and a few (including some preliminary leaves) with fore- or bottom edges trimmed, otherwise a sound, clean and crisp example.

Francesco Cima was a 17th-century Venetian physician associated with the University of Padua – the leading medical school in the Venetian Republic – whose key medical work, Exercitationis medicae de recta acceptione arthritidis, & podagrae (Medical exercise on the correct understanding of arthritis and gout) was published in Venice in 1662. The present work, Epistola admonitoria (Padua, 1662), is a lengthy polemical letter by Johann Michael Bayer of the University of Padua, in which the author contests Cima’s medical research and findings, and in the process attacks him both for his inexperience and his limited knowledge of Greek and Latin. Bayer dedicates his work to Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (1630-35), who was the ruler of Further Austria (including Tyrol) from 1662 to 1665. Cima would publish a response to Bayer’s criticism in 1663 with the work Vindicata veritas a Francisco Cima medico veneto in epistolam admonitoriam.

Korenjak; Schaffenrath; Subaric; Töchterle, Tyrolis Latina. Geschichte der neulateinischen Literatur in Tirol, 519-520.

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