Hoffmann, C(hristoph) L(udwig). Mixed medical writings. Published by Heinrich Chavet. Parts I and II (of 3). X, 534 p.; XXIV, 526 pp., 1 w. Bl. 16.5 x 10 cm. Semi-leather d. Z. (somewhat stained and rubbed) with gold-plated gold and 2 gold-embossed coloured R signs. Münster, Friedrich Christian Tissing, 1790-1791. VD18 90557263. VD18 90557271. – First edition of the collection of writings by the physician and health care reformer Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann (1721-1807) from Rheda in Westphalen, who is "especially known as the founder of a humoral-pathological system, which, despite its one-sidedness by the seemingly consistent derivation of the principles laid down in the same, does not have any influence on the Contemporaries of the author remained" (ADB XII, 575). – A little brown or sticky, title with old name entry.