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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,

by: Hoffmann, Friedrich, 1626-1675; Paracelsus, 1493-1541; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644; Michaelis, Johann, 1606-1667

Publication date: 1668

Topics: Fever, Bezoars, Sassafras, Guaiac, Materia medica, Vegetable, Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Imprint 1668

Publisher: Lipsiae [Leipzig], : Impensis Christiani Kirchneri, Bibliop. literis Christiani Michaelis,

Collection: jcbgerman; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Latin

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

Includes index

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials

Partington, J.R. History of chemisty

Partington, J.R. History of chemisty

NLM. Seventeenth cent. printed books

Sallander, H. Bib. Walleriana

Wellcome cat. printed books

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later marbled paper over boards

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: index contains contemporary marginal annotations in unknown hand