Nietzki A., — Elementa pathologiae universae Tomus I

1784. Lausanne in Helvetia apud Franc Grasset & Soc. In 8vo, hal leather with band and gilt impresion on pine and plate, pp. 478. Fine copy. Nietzki contributed with this extensive work significantly to the dissemination of the "physico-mathematical" theories of his teacher Friedrich Hoffmann. Through these theories medicine for the time was groundbreaking on a physical-mechanical foundation. Nietzki also discovered the ancient Egyptian art of embalming corpses. Only vol. 1 of 2