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Medical dissertation on drinking warm water, 1689
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A dissertation on the medical implications of drinking warm water, defended on April 24, 1689, by Brandan Dietrich Behrens, presided over by Heinrich Meibom (1638-1700), a German physician and scholar best remembered as the discoverer of the sebaceous glands in the eyelid that are named after him ("Meibomian glands").
Title
Heinrich Meibom.
Dissertatio Medica De Aquae Calidae Potu, Quam [...] In illustri Academia Iulia Praeside [...] Dn. Henrico Meibomio [...] Publico examini submittit Brandan Diderich Behrens Wolferbytanus. A. & R. ad d. XXIV. Aprilis Anno MDCLXXXIX. In Iuleo Maiori.
Helmstedt, Georg Wolfgang Hamm, 1689.
Physical Description
4to (17,7 x 14,2 cm). [36] pp.
Plain 19th-century wrappers. Browned, otherwise in good condition. From the library of J.W. Schlegel, with his etched bookplate.
References
Kritvatsy, A Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, 7699.