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