{"id":9913482,"date":"2026-01-10T13:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sokol.co.uk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9913482"},"modified":"2026-01-10T13:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:45:41","slug":"mirebelli-hieronymo-montuo","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/sokol.co.uk\/stock\/mirebelli-hieronymo-montuo\/","title":{"rendered":"MIREBELLI, Hieronymo Montuo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First edition of this very rare practical collection of cures, literally \u2018Preparations for Diseases.\u2019 It is dedicated to Francis II as King of France and Scotland, after his marriage to Mary Queen of Scots in 1558, with a prefatory letter on ancient medicine. The privilege at the rear, dated 1554, notes that Mirebelli, also known as J\u00e9r\u00f4me de Monteux (1495-1560), was surgeon in ordinary to the king.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each disease treated here is divided clearly into cause, diagnosis, prognosis and remedy, the latter including recipes and instructions. The first chapter advocates touch as a diagnostic tool, while the second is a long chapter on pain, followed by sections on headaches; this guide is clearly designed for the average user to easily diagnose their own conditions by feeling. Mirebelli is interested in mental illnesses including mania, delirium, melancholy, amnesia, lethargy and insomnia, catatonia, etc. Sexual conditions described include gonorrhea, impotence, priapism and onerogmos, i.e. nocturnal excretions. Drawing on ancient Greek and Arabic sources, Mirebelli advises using amulets as both preventative measure and active cure, many sections having specific instructions on what stone or gem to use in combatting the disease or condition. To treat impotence, for example, Mirebelli advises the reader to wear an amulet of wolf testicles, or to tie the bladder of a bear around the right arm, or that of a lizard or badger around the left.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the sexual material, there is a strong focus on women\u2019s medicine, conception and childbirth (which cannot be entirely coincidental given the timing of the book\u2019s dedication to the recently married king). Mirebelli discusses menstruation, natural, immoderate and insufficient, and abnormal discharges of menstrual blood. He provides sections on sterility and an Aristotelian theory of conception and fertility, how one might predict the number of children a mother will have, and why children are like their parents. He describes premature births and miscarriages, unsuccessful pregnancies, difficult labour, and post-partum cramps. There are two brief sections on virginity, one with various tests to determine virginity, the other giving advice on how to return the mother to a \u2018virginal\u2019 state after birth. Other conditions include when the labia are excessively swollen, obstruction of the uterus, uterine ulcers and prolapse, and hysteria.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No copies in North American libraries recorded by OCLC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. 555 (ix). Roman letter. T-p with elegant woodcut border. Woodcut royal arms of Francis II as Dauphin to b3v. Woodcut initials, typographical headpieces. Interesting mid-C20 coloured woodcut ex-libris of Dr Samuel H. Radbill, evidently an obstetrician. Early Jesuit oval stamp to second l. C17 or C18 donation inscription to t-p, \u2018Ex legato D. Lan: Rubei.\u2019 Age yellowing, intermittent slight marginal foxing, light paper browning, a good copy in original vellum, contemp. ms. spine titles, superseded with C18 blue wash and shelfmark painted in red, paper label.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9913486,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[273,285],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9913482","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-medicine","7":"product_cat-women","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MIREBELLI, Hieronymo Montuo. | Sokol Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sokol.co.uk\/stock\/mirebelli-hieronymo-montuo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MIREBELLI, Hieronymo Montuo. | Sokol Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. 555 (ix). 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