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De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.

Amsterdam: apud L. et D. Elzevirios, 1658.

This is an extensively revised and enlarged second edition of Piso’s Historia naturalis Brasiliae (1648). In this edition Piso reprinted Bontius's De medicina Indorum (1642) with two additional books on Asian flora and fauna. Piso introduced ipecacuanha into Europe. Reproduced in part, with translation, in Opuscula Selecta Neerlandicorum de Arte Medica, 1937, No. 14. See Nos. 2263.1 & 5303. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Entry Number#1825
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/2125
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
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Geographic Context

Publication place: Amsterdam