title: [Johann Misch Astrophilus' book "Medicina Pauperum" in Hungarian. Copy of a lost or hidden book from 1660].
abstract: Doctors and pharmacies in the 15th Century only used handwritten copies of the prescription collections available in their time. At the beginning of book printing the publishing of prescription collections immediately became popular. They could be found on the pages of medical and pharmaceutical books of many various editions with different structure and origin, as the forerunner of the official pharmacopoeias. From the 16th Century onwards books with the title "Medicina Pauperum" were published which helped the educated people to tend to themselves, the household, the servants and their immediate surroundings case of an illness. The first work specifically on the topic or of genre of the "Medicina Pauperum" according to our knowledge appeared in Hungarian in the year 1660 and currently seems to survived only in fragments under the title of "Medicina Pauperum", from an unknown author. A rare incident occurred in the present days as a "book" believed to be lost for us turned up from thin air. It is a "copied" manuscript in the size of 97×139 mm attached to the ribs with hemp cord, cropped around and in an unbound state. The book known before only in fractions is now available entirety handwritten on 318 pages, distributed to seven distinct parts. The research of its origin suggests that the author lived and worked in Nagyszombat and was called Johann Misch Astrophilus. The identification of the printing office was possible thanks to the examination of the initials and the gaudily, as well as the fonts and the watermark. By these results the printing very likely occurred in the Brewer Printing Press in Lőcse. For the possibility of more extensive research and value preservation the manuscript was bounded. The facsimile edition contains the magnified and digitalized pages of the original one and is published in numbered issues.
authors.affiliation: Semmelweis Egyetem, Általános Orvostudományi Kar II. Belgyógyászati Klinika, Geriátriai Tanszéki Csoport Budapest Szent Imre Kórház Dél-budai Nefrológiai Központ, Nefrológia-Hypertonia Profil Budapest B. Braun Avitum Hungary Zrt. 1. Sz. Dialízisközpont Budapest Halmi u. 20-22. 1115.
authors.forename: István
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.forename: Mariann
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tavaszy
authors.forename: Gergely
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kiss
mesh_terms: D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007802:Language; D011327:Printing / Q000266:history; D011643:Publishing / Q000266:history; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*; D013812:Therapeutics / Q000266:history*; D014177:Translations