Burmester, Theophilus Andreas
De Usu Vini Medico
1797, Gottingae (Göttingen), Typis H. M. Grape
First Edition
Burmester's dissertation belongs to the cosmopolitan medical faculty of the University of Göttingen. His identification as “Pernavo-Livonus” (from Pärnu, in Livonia, i.e., present-day Estonia) places him among the Baltic German students drawn to that faculty at the end of the century. The text reflects Göttingen’s international medical culture, engaging authorities from across Europe and the Atlantic, and demonstrates the faculty’s practical orientation toward clinical therapeutics.
Latin inaugural dissertation on the medical use of wine. It opens with prolegomena on wine's long medicinal use, then treats its chemical constitution and the therapeutic use of wine combined with fixed air (references to Priestley, Murray, Percival). It divides maladies into pure debility and debility with putrid diathesis, discussing nervous fevers, spasmodic and nervous disorders, wasting diseases, convalescent weakness, colliquative sweats, putrid fevers, tetanus, and hydrophobia. It cites many authorities including Boerhaave, van Swieten, Pringle, Frank, Priestley.
An uncut, wandering dissertation on wine’s virtues by an academic of the 18th century: how can one resist stepping into the shoes of these curious scholars, discovery still sealed in its pages?.
Pp. 28, [2], [1] r.e.
Unopened, with uncut edges (worn); no cover, unbound and held by an old paperclip. Ex libris of Dr. Basserman-Jordan on the title-page recto. Very light browning and some spotting at the title page. Fair.
Dimensions (inches): 7 x 4 3/4 x 1/8
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