Curioser Stallmeister; oder, Vollständige Ross-Artzney-Kunst, : in dreyen Büchern verabfasset: Deren I. Von der Pferde Complexion, Erkennung deß Alters/ und allen innerlichen Haupt-Kranckheiten. II. Von allen innerlichen Kranckheiten der Brust/ und deß Schmeerbauchs; wie auch von allerhand Pferd-Purgationen; von der Gras-Fütterung; von unterschiedlicher Art Clystiren und Laxir-Zapffen; Ferner von Fiebern und der Pest. III. Von allerhand Salben; Oelen; Balsamen und Pflastern ins gemein; wie auch von allen äusserlichen Schäden und Huff-Mängeln insonderheit; so dann endlich auch von unterschiedlichen zur Heilung dieser Gebrechen benöthigten Medicaments-Formuln; vom Aderlassen/ Nerven-Gebrechen/ etc. handelt. Nicht allein aus den bewerthesten Authorn zusammen getragen/ sondern auch aus eigener Erfahrung zu diesem Stand gebracht/ und mit vielen Kupffern der Patienten ausgezieret ... / Georg Simon Winters von Adlersflügel.
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| Item Description: | Running title: Vollständiges Ross-Artzney-Buch. Published 1678 under title: Wolerfahrner Ross-Artzt. Illustrated half title: ... Curiöser Stallmeister. Detlev Auvermann, bookseller, description: 8vo, ff. [13, including engraved frontispiece], pp. 980, [18], [2], with 45 engraved plates, some folded; a few plates minimally shaved at outer margins; text lightly browned; occasional light damp-staining to extreme upper margins; a good copy, bound in contemporary German; professional, if somewhat unsightly restoration to head and foot of spine; lower corner of upper cover a bit worn. Winter's last work, an extensive and richly illustrated work on equine medicine, based on the Hippiater expertus of 1678, and here printed in 'pocket' format in a sturdy little volume. As described in Winter’s ‘address to the reader’, the work is based on the Hippiater expertus or Wolerfahrner Ross Arzt (Nuremberg, 1678), with parallel text in German and Latin, where it was printed in folio format together with his riding manual. Winter decided to bring out this smaller and much corrected version to make it more comfortable or convenient to carry along for travellers and soldiers. Unusually for a horse book he also signs each copy in ink himself ‘to avoid piracy’ or ‘falsification’. Winter introduces his work with a number of ‘rules’, such as that all herbs, roots, seeds, and woods used in treatment be cut or gathered at their ‘correct’ times, that fresh water used in treatment is to be scooped following the direction of the flow of a stream, and not against, before sunrise, that interventions which involve cutting, cauterizing, purging or bloodletting are done according to the aspects of the calendar, etc., reflecting the attention given to the influence of the stars at the time. He also there points out recipes signed ‘W’ to be of his own creation. Following a general introduction on horses’ complexions and on how to recognise their age, Winter provides descriptions of a vast array of ailments and afflictions and their cures. He discusses headaches, phrenitis, dizziness, apoplexy, cataplexy, cramps, eye diseases, afflictions of the heart and of the lungs, bites, including venomous, fractures, bladder infections, gall, bladder and kidney stones, tumours and cysts, swellings, stomach ailments, constipation, different fevers, skin diseases, warts, dropsy, lymph diseases, goiter, hoof abscesses, etc. to mention but a few, with each ailment followed by extensive listings of alternative recipes and treatments. The work concludes with a useful index. Born Georg Simon Winter, the author was ennobled and awarded the title ‘von Adlersflügel’ in 1681 in recognition of his work in hippiatrics. His arms are alluded to in the winged horse of the frontispiece. Some copies contain a three-page dedication following the title-page, which is not present here nor was ever bound in. Two of the copies preserved in German libraries (Göttingen and Dresden), as well as the Michigan copy, collate as here; the digitised copy at Sachsen-Anhalt equally does not contain these leaves. Whilst the German online catalogue VD17 notices their absence it confirms these leaves not to be integral to the first gathering, which consists of eight leaves. |
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| Physical Description: | 22 unnumbered pages, 980 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations 17 cm |