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In this work, which was his principal one, he described numerous operations, the instruments needed to perform them, the postoperative treatment of patients, and the elements to be evaluated for prognostic assessment. It describes obstetrics, gynecology, castration, tumor removal, aneurysm therapy, liver surgery, and other procedures.

Bertrandi (Turin, 1723–1765), one of the most esteemed Italian physicians and anatomists of the time, was professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Turin. In 1752, he went to Paris, where he met, among others, Antoine Louis, George L. Leclerc de Buffon, and Jacob B. Winslow, thus gaining extensive anatomical and surgical experience. In 1754, he also presented two of his important studies on hydrocele and liver abscesses, "De hydrocele" and "De hepatis ascessibus," to the Academie Royale in Paris. These studies received unanimous recognition and the title of foreign member of the academy.

In 1758, he became professor of practical surgery and physician to His Majesty the King of Sardinia, "first surgeon to the king." He also designed an anatomical theater, which was later built in the hospital of San Giovanni, and suggested to Charles Emmanuel III the idea of establishing a veterinary school and a school for midwives.

The volume shows significant signs of use accumulated over time, such as browning, stains, and some old conservative restoration work: in particular, the lined title page and the restored and reinforced margins on the last five unnumbered pages, which contain "On the way to distill water from all plants, and how to preserve their true odors and flavors." On the title page, a copperplate depicting Hope, with the motto "Spes mea in Deo est." Text in two columns. Ornamental initials. The iconographic apparatus is monumental, consisting of 1,105 woodcut figures in the text, illustrating the various plant and animal species described. Despite visible wear, the volume is easy to consult. Esteemed 17th-century edition of the most famous botanical-pharmaceutical text of the 16th century. A famous physician and humanist, Pietro Andrea Matthioli (Siena, 1501-1578) graduated in medicine in Venice in 1523. After moving to Val di Non in Trentino, where he died of the plague in Trento, he became personal physician to Bishop Clesio. In 1533, he began work on his best-known work, the "Dioscoride," which was published in 1544 by Niccolò Bascarini under the title "Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo Libri cinque Della historia, et materia medicinali tradotti in lingua volgare italiana da M. Pietro Andrea Matthiolo Sienese Medico, con ample racconti, et commentaries, et erudite annotationi, et censorie del stesso interprete." Dioscorides Pedanius, in Ancient Greek, Pedánios Dioskourídes (Anazarbus in Cilicia, c. 40–c. 90 AD), a Greek physician who lived during the time of Nero, is considered the foremost botanist of antiquity. He studied herbs, poisons, and plant remedies extensively; his works were translated as far away as Arabia and India, and he is cited by Dante as a "good collector of the qualities of herbs" ("Inferno", IV, 139–140). Mattioli, who had become familiar with the work in Jean Ruel's Latin version, expanded Dioscorides' research to include previously unknown plants, and his text became, for several centuries, a cornerstone of medicinal botany. The second edition is from 1548 and contains the sixth book, which deals with antidotes against poisons, considered by some to be apocryphal, and which in the present edition is organically inserted into the text, after the fifth book which deals with "medicinal materials". The first Latin version is from 1554. This is the third edition printed by Ginammi in Venice after those of 1597 and 1621. > Ceresoli, 352, "Good edition". Fabiani, "The life of Pietro Andrea Mattioli", 77. Pritzel, 2291 and 5985; Graesse, IV, 446; Garrison, 2366, and Brunet, III, 1538 for other editions.