Title page to volume 2 reads: "Europae arcana medica id est: Collectanea physico-medico-practica ex ephemeridum Germaniae naturae curiosorum curiosorum centuriis et actis studiose in compendium redacta et conscripta in quibus omnia experimenta, remedia polychresta & ab experientissimis Europae archiatris professoribus ac medicis clinicis annotata, usu confirmata & consignata in phyliatrorum & practicantium commodum recensentur & tomum II. constituunt. Studio Salentini Ernesti Eugenii Cohausen Phil. & Med. doctoris C.F. & archiatri treviro confluentini Acad. G.N.C. socii &c. Volumen II dum", and has imprint: Francofurti & Lipsiae: Ex Officina Knoch-Eslingeriana, MDCCLX

Recipes and formulas include the usage of American plants such as Jalap, Peruvian bark, guaiacum, sassafras, Peruvian balsam, quinine, sarsaparilla, and chocolate

Pagination: v. 1: [20], 598, [18] p.; v. 2: [32], 398, [18] p

Signatures: v. 1: )(⁸ )( )(² A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴; v. 2: )(⁸ )( )(⁸ A-2C⁸

Includes indexes

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials

Includes symbols possibly indicating measurments in the formulas throughout the text

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary sueded calf with marbled boards

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund

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