Le Boe (Franciscus) Of Childrens Diseases...also a Treatise of the Rickets, first edition, final blank leaf present but lacking initial blank, title and first 2 ff. repaired to fore-edge, just touching ruled border to title, foxed and browned, some staining, modern sheep, [Wing L803B], 8vo, Printed for George Downs, 1682.

⁂ Rare, ESTC locates only 6 copies (4 in British Isles, 2 in U.S.). The translator and author of the side-notes is Richard Gower. Le Boe (1614-72), or Sylvius as he is more commonly known, was one of the most influential of the Iatrochemists, a great anatomist and pioneer of bedside teaching, who is remembered in connection with the sylvian fissure and Aqueduct of Sylvius in the brain. As Professor of Medicine at Leiden he combined brilliance as a teacher with an attractive personality. Richard Gower, a student there and ardent admirer, translated two works by Sylvius into English: Practice of Physick, 1674, followed by this rare treatise which deals with the most common afflictions of children and as such is one of very few pediatric monographs printed in English in the 17th century.