Title
Friderici Hoffmanni, Medic. D. Administr. Archiepiscop. Magdeburg. medici, Opus de methodo medendi, : juxta seriem Wallaeianam, annexis fundamentis astrologicis, ex veterum ac recentiorum scriptis concinnatum, dogmaticis, Paracelsicis, Helmontianis, Harveianis principiis & propriis observationibus illustratum, elegantissimis chymicis flosculis adornatum
Title Variants
Alternative:
Opus de methodo medendi
By
Hoffmann, Friedrich, 1626-1675
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644
Michaëlis, Johann, 1606-1667
Paracelsus, 1493-1541
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Lipsiae [Leipzig], Impensis Christiani Kirchneri, Bibliop. literis Christiani Michaelis, Anno M. DC. LXVIII. [1668]
Notes
Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.
Includes index.
Includes information on pharmaceuticals developed from the new and exotic plants and animals discovered in the East and West Indies; there is a substantial section on the treatment of fevers, a section on bezoar stones, the wood of the sassafras plant, the guaiacum plant of Peru, the "lignum indicum" in Santo Domingo and on the island of Saint John, and other plants in New Spain.
Signatures: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) A-3K⁴ (U3 missigned V3) 4A-4D⁴
Text printed in two parallel columns.
Sallander, H. Bib. Walleriana, | 4649.
NLM. Seventeenth cent. printed books, | 5789.
Partington, J.R. History of chemisty, | II: p. 240.
Wellcome cat. printed books, | III:283.
Partington, J.R. History of chemisty, | II: p. 320.
Subjects
Bezoars
,
Botany, Medical
,
Fever
,
Guaiac
,
Imprint 1668
,
Materia medica, Vegetable
,
Medicinal plants
,
Sassafras
Language
Latin
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.102806
OCLC:
904157767
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