Lecture notes on periodic fevers

Appendice practica alle Lezioni sulle periodiche intermittenti. (Trattenimenti due). The attribution of this work to Tommasini is based on the style and subject, and it may be dated approximately by the reference on the recto of the second leaf of the text to "mio collega Rubbini nella memoria sua sui mezzi meglio atta ad impedire recidiva delle febbri periodiche". Produced in Parma.

c. 1805

1 volume 16 ll. (first & last 5 bl.). 4to. 20 × 15 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1930.

Pietro Rubini (1760-1819) was professor of clinical medicine at Parma University from 1794 to 1807, and Tommasini was professor of physiology and pathology at the same University from 1794 to 1816 (see A. Cazzaniga, Le grande crisi della medicina italiana, 1951, Cap. 6).

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).