Ortus Sanitatis (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ortus Sanitatis<br><br>In addition to the Preface the H ortus Samtatts at least its first edition contains also an Epilogue. Unfortunately this does not offer any infor mation about the author or authors. Jacob Meydenbach the printer states with considerable pride that the book omni diligentia collectum et elabora tum was produced by him without mentioning however who did the com~ piling and elaboration The fact that the volume extended also to the animals and minerals was of course advertised. But the printer was justified in pointing out that the H ortus Santtatis was different from the Gart der Gesund heit. For not only the treatises on beasts birds fishes and minerals were new in his work but also the section on plants was completely rewritten. Some chapters of the German work are lacking in the Latin; and yet the latter in cludes nearly a hundred more chapters than the former. The text and the sequence of chapters also differ. Further each chapter in the H ortus Sanitatis is divided into two parts: the first gives a description of the object and the second under the title Operationes mentions its medical effects.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.