The practice of physick, in seventeen several books. . Wherein is plainly set forth, the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs; together with the cure of all diseases in the body. By Nicholas Culpeper, physitian and astrologer. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick. And William Rowland, physitian. Being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius, sometimes councellor and physitian to the King of France. To which are added four books containing five hundred and thirteen observations of famous cures. By the same author. And a fifth book of select medicinal counsels. By John Fernelius. With a table of the principal matters treated therein. As also a physical dictionary, ...
Lazare Rivière (1589-1655)
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139511
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],184,245-436,489-594,611-645,[1]; [12],120, 221-463,[33] p., plate . front. ports.. . fol.. Imperfect: does not include the Four books of ... Lazarus Riverius. (Collation identical to pp.645,[1]). Also lacks frontispiece. Provenance: Pictorial bookplate (6.7x5cm): Ex Libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894. Inscribed: "Francis Younge his book 1684 price 90 shillings". Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; board edges gilt (worn); spine-label fragment; endpaper partly torn off.
Makers and roles
Lazare Rivière (1589-1655) Abdiah Cole (c.1610-c.1670) Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) Jean Fernel (1497-1558) William Rowland