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Chyna et Apios. Auger FERRIER
Catherine de Medici's Physician, Augur Ferrier, on China Root as a Remedy for Syphilis.

Chyna et Apios.

Toulouse: Colomiers, Jacques, 1554.
Toulouse physician and astrologer Auger Ferrier's discussion of the botanical properties of China root [the rootstock of Smilax chinæ] and how it is often confused with apios (spurge), and the New-World plants sarsaparilla and guaiac. China root, an East Asian rootstock with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties.....

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Monalosphaerium. Jean FERNEL
First Edition of Jean Fernel's First Book, With a Poem on Americans and Future Explorers.

Monalosphaerium

Paris: Simon de Colines, 1526.
First Edition of the French physician and astronomer Jean François Fernel's first published work, a pleasingly designed and printed treatise on astronomy, navigation, the science of astrolabes, and practical geometry, written when Fernel was only 24,1 and published before he turned 30. The work, which.....

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