The words "kata tópous" in title page transcription have been transliterated from the Greek.

The words "febribus", "peste" and "rhemediis kata topous in Galeni libros", "materia chirurgica" are each grouped together in parentheses preceded by the "de"

"Iacobi Hollerii Stempani, medici Parisiensis celeberrimi, Ad libros Gal[eni] De compositione medicamentorum kata tópous. Periochae VIII", leaves [1]-68, 6th count, has special dated title page with imprint: Parisiis, apud Carolum Macaeum. 1577; the words "kata tópous" have been transliterated from the Greek.

Identical in contents with the edition published by the same press in 1571, except for new preliminary matter, which includes a new prefatory note by Valet and a general index.

This work, published posthumously, is a general text, without illustrations, of internal medicine, with added treatises on the plague, pharmaceuticals, and surgery. The work deals with pharmaceutical recipes used in medicine. He includes two sections dealing with the use of guaiac, one of the early botanical imports from the New World, for its use in the treatment of venereal disease.

Signatures: A-B⁸ (A1 verso blank) ²A⁸ ³A⁸ ²B⁸ C-OO⁸ Aa-Kk⁸ Ll⁴ (Ll4 blank) aa-hh⁸ ii⁴ (ii4 verso blank) a-q⁸ r⁴

Index: book 1, leaves [11-16], 2nd count.

Engraved printer's device on title pages; head pieces; initials.

Catalogue of incunabula and sixteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 2484.

Purchase; 2016; 17-201.

Text primarily in Latin with some prefatory material and other passages in Greek.