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  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • We, the court of examiners, chosen and appointed by the master, wardens and assistants of the Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London in pursuance of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the 55th year of the reign of his majesty King George the third entitled an Act for the better regulating the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales, do hereby by virtue of the power & authority invested by the said Act certify that ... has been by us carefully and deliberately examined as to his skills & abilities in the science & practice of medicine ... duly qualified as an apothecary.
  • A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • The arrival of a purple griffin, representing Cardinal Franciotti, is greeted in Lucca by virtues, a river god accompanied by naiads, and genii. Etching after P. Testa.
  • The death of infants: a skeleton representing Death grabs and eats infants who die innocent of vice but unendowed with the theological virtues. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind, surrounded by representations of virtues and proverbs; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • Fasciculo di medecina vulgare. Queste sono le cose contenute in questo dignissimo Fasciculo di medicina vulgare ... el modo di judicar la urina ... El modo di trazer el sangue ... La figura de lhuomo come le sotto posto ali pianeti. La figura della matrice ... El consiglio / per la peste de Maestro Piero da Tusignano. La anathomia de Maestro Mondino ... Virtu dalcune herbe secondo Plinio et Alberto Magno ... [Vulgarizato per Sebastiano Manilio Romano. Con alchune recette dignissime novamente azonte et non mai piu stampate].
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the new London dispensatory. In VI book. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations, virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral of all the compounds both internal and external and of all the chymical preparations now in life ... / by William Salmon.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Seplasivm. The compleat English physician: or, the druggist's shop opened. Explicating all the particulars of which medicines at this day are composed and made. Shewing their various names and natures, their several preparations, virtues, uses, and doses, as they are applicable to the whole art of physick, and containing above 600 chymical processes ... In X. books / By William Salmon.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.