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 3139512
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],184,245-436,489-594,611-645,[1]; [12],120, 221-463,[33] p., plate . front. ports.. . fol.. UNVERIFIED. Extensive manuscript notes in ink on front and rear endpapers, in at least two separate seventeenth-century[?] hands, with text references, prices of medicines, etc. Separate faded manuscript note in pencil. Provenance: Pictorial bookplate (6.7x5cm): Ex Libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf; double blind fillet borders, with quarter double blind fillet. Rebacked; corners and edges repaired in calf (twentieth-century); new endpapers; spine relabelled in gilt: The practice of physics.
Makers and roles
Lazare Rivière (1589-1655) Abdiah Cole (c.1610-c.1670) Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) Jean Fernel (1497-1558) William Rowland