Michaelis Bernhardi Valentini prof. medici ... Polychresta exotica in curandis affectibus contumacissimis probatissima ... : ut et nova herniarum cura. Accedunt seorsim olim editae ... Dissertationes epistolicae varii argumenti ...

Title Variants

Alternative: De sexu plantarum
Uniform: Polychresta exotica

By

Valentini, Michael Bernhard, 1657-1729

Camerarius, Rudolf Jakob, 1665-1721 , De sexu plantarum epistola.
Zunner, Johann David, 1653-1705 , publisher.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Francofurti ad Moenum, Sumptibus Johannis Davidis Zunneri, MDCC [1700]

Notes

Title in red and black.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

A woodcut decorative wreath border, with motto "Nullius in verba", appears on the verso of the t.p.

Errors in paging.

Signatures: )(A-2O.

Errata on p. [1] (3rd group).

Final leaf is blank (wanting in Dibner Library copy).

"Dissertationes epistolicae" has special half-title (p. [113]).

Text, p. 197-203, and plate VI, describe use of the moxa in gout.

Text includes as Appendix I, p. 225-268, the De sexu plantarum epistola of R.J. Camerarius, first published separately in Tubingen, 1694, the first experimental proof of sexual activity and pollination in plants; cf. Printing and the mind of man, 165.

Includes index.

Contents: (From t.p.) Fabae S. Ignatii -- Ipecacuanha -- Pedra del porco -- China chinae -- Clyster tabacinus -- Panacea gallorum.

Dibner Library. Heralds of Science (1980 ed.), | 25

Subjects

Early works to 1800 , Enema , Fertilization of plants , Medicine , Moxa

Call Number

RM84 .V16 1701

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60981
OCLC: 7677280