"Riolan - Curious Research On The Schools In Medicine, Paris And Montpelier. 1651."
RIOLAN (Jean) - Curious research on the schools in medicine, Paris and Montpelier, necessary to be seen, for the conservation of life. By a former doctor of medicine from the faculty of Paris. Paris, Chez Gaspar Meturas, 1651; in-8, preface, privilege, 291 pp., additions, contemporary full calfskin binding, spine decorated with 5 raised bands, red title label, marbled edges. Jean Riolan was a great doctor of his time. He was ordinary physician to King Henry IV, then to Louis XIII, then to Marie de Medici. He was nicknamed "Prince of anatomists". It was he who founded the Jardin du Roi, which later became the Jardin des Plantes. Numerous handwritten bookplates. 
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