BLASIUS, G., — Medicina generalis, novâ accuratâque methodo fundamenta exhibens.

Amsterdam, P. van den Berge, 1661. 12mo. W. engr. front and woodc. vign. on t. Contemp. vellum. [....] (XVI, 415, I pp.). (First 4 and last 4 lvs. sl. wormh. (rest.) w. loss of a few letters.) Hirsch I, 559/60: Bayle & Thill. II, 96/7: DMB 156/8: Blasius (1625 - 1692) was professor at the Illustrious School at Amsterdam. '... the student Nic. Stensen [Steno] stayed with him and discovered the ductus parotideus (Stenonianus) at a sheep's head at his house. Blasius published the discovery in his 'Medicina generalis', which led to a public contoversy with Steno, who claimed the honour of the discovery...': BMN I, 1: Not in Wellcome of Krivatsky: Banga, 376: In the preface Blasius claims the discovery about which Steno complained in his 'Observationes anatomicae' (Comp. G&M 973). Then B. complained about this in a long letter to Steno's fellow countryman Bartholinus, who tried to reconcile the two. Comp. Dobson, 195/6: W. laudatory poems in Latin by Th. Bartholinus and Olaus Borrichius. Rare first edition.