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Marx, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 - 1877)
AKESIOS : BLICKE IN DIE ETHISCHEN BEZIEHUNGEN DER MEDICIN.
Göttingen, bei Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1844.
8vo. VI, 152 pp. + errata leaf.

First edition. The moral aspects of medical life, consisting of the Akesios. Akesios (or, Acesius), a surname of Apollo, under which he was worshipped in Elis, where he had a splendid temple in the agora. This surname, which has the same meaning as akestôr and alexikakos, characterised the god as the averter of evil. Contains i.a. Benjamin Rush's [1746-1813] Moral and Physical Thermometer, or, a Scale of the Progress of Temperance and Intemperance (p. 12), this scale of health is in Public Characters (London 1801, p. 499), where it is supposed to have originated with Rush.

Together with
Marx, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 - 1877)
MITTHEILUNGEN ÜBER ZWECKE, LEIDEN UND FREUDEN DER AERZTE. GESCHICHTLICHES UND GEDACHTES. EIN LESEBUCH FÜR KRANKE UND GESUNDE.
Göttingen, in der Dieterischen Buchhandlung, 1867.
8vo. VIII, 172 pp.

First edition.

Contemporary half calf gilt.

$ 100

* Waller 6289.

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