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of administration as parts of a highly lucid system. In his method he became the
founder of juristic dogmatism' (ESS).
ADB XXVI, pp. 749-777; Bigmore and Wyman II, 226; Katalog des Börsenvereins 461;
Der deutsche Buchhandel in Urkunden und Quellen, II, p. 331 ff; NUC/RLIN and
OCLC record copies at Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley, and the University of
Pennsylvania; for further information on the author see ESS.
The Diseases of the Ruling Classes
62.
RAMAZZINI, Bernardo. De Principum Valetudine Tuenda.
Commentatio Bernardini Ramazzini. Patavvii, Typgraphia Jo:
Baptistae Conzatti, 1710. £ 3000
4to, pp. [xvi], 160; title vignette and decorated initials; occasional light
browning, and light dampstain to gutter margin at head, unobtrusive
and never getting anywhere near the text; uncut in the original buff limp
boards, eighteenth century spine covering with paste-paper; corners
bumped; sowing strengthened; a very good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Ramazzini's study of occupational diseases, in fact a
companion volume to his earlier and better known De Morbis Artificum (1700),
where he concentrated on the diseases of manual workers.
In this work he concentrates on the occupational diseases incurred by those who
work with their brains rather than their hands, the diseases of princes, government
officials, and their advisors. He treats all physical aspects that influence the life and
health of princes, such as air, food, drink, sleep, digestion etc, before concentrating
on the psychological aspects, such as the pressure of government, responsibility, and
life at court. Interestingly he argues that a combination of these factors are likely to
produce psychosomatic symptoms. Ramazzini warns against the interference from
medical practitioners, who are most unlikely to properly diagnose the complaints.
Throughout Ramazzini backs up his findings with reference to medical authorites,
and refers in particular to the earlier studies by Marsilio Ficino, De studiorum
sanitate, 1489 and V. Fortunato Plembio, De Togatorum valetudine tuendo, 1670.
His work was published to Europe-wide acclaim, and an edition printed in Leipzig
followed in 1711, and another one in Uppsala in 1712, with Italian editions in 1713
and 1717, and an anonymous French translation in 1724.
Di Pietro 65; Blake, p. 370; Wellcome IV, p. 468; see Francesco Carnevale, La Salute
dei Principi ovvero come difendersi dalle malattie e dai medici, Florence, 1992, p. 202
for bibliography, a study of the text and its gestation; OCLC also record copies at the
University of Chicago, Oklahoma, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
Le Source du Bon Goût
63.