Lipsiae [Leipzig], Langenheim, 1745. Small 4to (20.4 x 16.8 cm). [iv], 26 pp. Woodcut initials and headpiece. Marbled spine cover. Bound with marbled paper strip.

A thesis on the effects of treating snake bites, written jointly by the German botanists and medical doctors Johann Benjamin Boehmer, or Böhmer (1719-1754) and his brother Georg Rudolph Boehmer (1723-1803). The authors started with observing, that "The Psylli, the Martians, and those who are called Ophiogenes, are a very ancient people, to whom the ancients ascribed a certain special prowess against serpents, and an innate knowledge of healing a poisoned wound, inflicted by their bite." (p. 1). Old annotation in the top margin of the title, otherwise very good, clean, unmarked. Rare. The Boehmers not recorded by Adler. Not in Cat. BM(NH).