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 original of Dr. Paul Harman, 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. By Edward Strother M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Reg. Colleg. In two volumes.
Edward Strother (1675-1737)
Category
Books
Date
1727
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3201519
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ; 8vo. Imperfect: v. 2 only. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart" [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet forming a border. Sewn on three cords, five raised bands (two false). Vol. number lettered direct in gilt on spine. Edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Edward Strother (1675-1737) Paul Hermann (1646-1695)., author