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BECKHER, D. Cultrivori Prussiaci curatio singularis. 3a ed. Leyden, J. Maire, 1640. (12), 129, (7) pp. W. fold. plate of the Prussian knive-swallower. Sm-8°. Cont. vellum. (Ties fail, scribbling in an old hand on ti., sm. rep. on v° of plate, sl. browned/foxed).
The text relays an amusing account of a patient, the Prussian farmer Adreas Grunheide, who tried to tickle his throat with a knife to induce vomiting to relieve his nausea. Having swallowed the knife, the patient took a drink of beer and stood on his head thinking that the knife would slide out easily. Instead the knife became lodged in his stomach and had to be removed by Daniel Schwabe, a wound and lithotomy surgeon. The patient fully recovered. - Third edition, but first with illustration. Breugelmans 442 (1640:2); Waller 820. - From the libraries of Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold (1801-61), J. van der Hoeven (w. bookplate), J.B. de la Faille.€ 500
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