G[odofredi] G[uilielmi] L[eibnitii] Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato

Title Variants

Alternative: Godofredi Guilielmi Leibnitii Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato
Alternative: Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato

By

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Hannov. et Gvelpherit [i.e. Hannover and Wolfenbüttel, Germany], Sumptibus Gothofredi Freytagii, anno 1696

Notes

Full Latin name of author supplied by Alden.

First printed in Miscellanea curiosa of the Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Nauturforscher, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1671-1706, series 3, volume 3.

Also issued as part 2 of: Sex exercitationes medicinales de quibusdam morbis chronicis / by Martin Lister, printed in Frankfurt and Leipzig in the same year.

Concerns the use of ipecacuana, which comes from Brazil, for the treatment of dystentary.

Signatures: a-b⁸ (a1 verso blank) c⁴ (-c4)

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initial.

Waring, J. Bib. therapeutica, | p. 526.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 696/137.

Subjects

Dysentery , Imprint 1696 , Ipecac (Drug) , Medicinal plants

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.85532