Materia medica: or, a new description of the virtues and effects of all drugs, or Simple Medicines Now in Use: Where from their Principles, these Virtues both Common and Specifick are shewn, with the Preparations of Each; and Prescriptions: As also Judicious Remarks are every where interspers'd. Done from the Latin dictates of a physician, who was a register'd pupil of Dr. Paul Herman, late Professor of Botany in Leyden. To which is prefix'd, a general introduction containing a Mechanical Account of the Operations of all Medicines upon Human Bodies. Also critical observations are added to each Simple thro' the Whole, wherever it was found Necessary. The second edition. By Edward Strother M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Reg. Colleg. In two volumes.
Paul Hermann (1646-1695).
Category
Books
Date
1729
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3201459
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ; 8vo. Imperfect: v.1 only. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart" [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet forming a border. Sewn on three cords, five raised bands (two false). Gilt fillet on spine. Numbered direct in gilt on spine. Tooled board-edges. Edges sprinkled red. Leather scuffed and lower joint cracked.
Makers and roles
Paul Hermann (1646-1695).