Pauli Aeginetae Totius rei medicae libri 7. Ad profectionem parati, et breui summa omnem artem complectentes. Per Iannum Cornarium medicum physicum latina lingua conscripti. Iani Cornarii medici physici, Dolabellarum, in Paulum Aeginetam medicum, libri 7. Cum indice rerum et verborum locupletissimo.: The author succeeded in enclosing in a book of modest size much of the medical knowledge of the Greco-Roman era.

some defects to title-page, stains to white margin of first leaves, marginal ink stains to last leaves, overall a good copy in attractive binding.

Rare edition of this work by Paulus Aegineta, the only work by the author that survived. With a concise exposition of the information taken from the manuals of the major "masters of arts", he succeeded in enclosing in a book of modest size much of the medical knowledge of the Greco-Roman era.

The work contains a rather extensive discussion of topics divided as follows:

-the art of preserving health;

-treatise on fevers (or diseases of similar parts);

-internal ailments;

-external ailments;

-sores, bites, poisons;

-surgery;

-simple and compound medicines.

The topics covered are extremely summarized, but not for this reason unclear.

Paul of Aegina (Aegina, 625? - 690?) was a Byzantine physician. He represents the last important exponent of Greco-Roman medicine and is to be considered as the "bridge" between the latter and medieval medicine. The first important doctor after Eginate was Abulcasis, born three centuries later.