Pharmacy, 18th cent.

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Collection of pharmaceutical receipts and prescriptions in systematic order: with a 'Trattato di chimica' on mineral materia medica, and a large selection of prescriptions, etc. extracted mainly from 17th and early 18th cent. authors. In Italian and Latin.

Contents:
Index and collection of preparations from animal substances (18 ll.).
Prescriptions and preparations from vegetable materia medica, divided into 34 sections, pills, unguents, oils, powders etc. (ff. 1-187).
Trattato di chimica [farmaceutica], and a collection of chemical and mineral prescriptions and remedies (ff. 187v-233).
Trattato de' preparationi necessarie ad ogni Spetiale (ff. 234-240).
Trattato di diversi remedi, d'alcuni chiamati Secreti (ff. 241-303).
Schroeder (J.) 'Characteres': from his <i>Pharmacopoeia medico-chymica</i> (fol. 304).
Further notes on animal materia medica (ff. 305-307).

The date 1740 appears on fol. 266.

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