A complete history of drugs / Written in French by monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV. To which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from mess. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal, and mineral; with their use in physic, chemistry, pharmacy, and several other arts. Illustrated with above four hundred copper-cuts ... A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals.

  • Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699.
Date:
1748
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Credit: A complete history of drugs / Written in French by monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV. To which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from mess. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal, and mineral; with their use in physic, chemistry, pharmacy, and several other arts. Illustrated with above four hundred copper-cuts ... A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The fame enlarged with the Defcription of Plants, Cuts, and feveral Medicines, by Cafpar Bau- binus, in the Year 1613, in Folio. 1 he 1‘ igures or Prints ot the fame, with the bare Names in Latin and High-Dutch ; printed at Frankfort 1590. Thalius, Sylva Hercynia, or a Catalogue of Plants, growing naturally on the Mountains and Parts adjacent to Hercynia ; printed at Frankfort 1588. This Catalogue is ufually joined to and adorned with the Medicinal Garden of Camerarius. Theophrajius's Hiftory of Plants, the Greek Edition, printed at Venice 1552, in Oflavo ; at Bafl 1541, in Quarto-, and Gaza's Verfion at Lyons 1552, in Ofiavo, with Jordan's Correction. Theophrajius Ereftus's ten Books of the Hiftory of Plants, which Bodccus illuftrated ; printed at Amjlerdam 1644, in Folio. Thevet's Cofmography, in French, publifhed with feveral Figures of Plants and Animals. The fame Author has writ in French, a Hiftory of what is fingularly remarkable in New France in Ame¬ rica-, whereunto are added twelve Figures of Plants) printed at Paris 1557, in Quarto. Tragus his Hiftory, which was often publifhed at Strajburgb in the German Language, in Folio, but now is tranllated^into Latin, with 567 Cuts, though they are deferibed to 800 ; printed at Stra/burgh 1522, in Quarto. Turner, (IVilliam) his Hiftory of Plants, in Englifr, with fome Figures; printed at London in Folio. V. Vefingius's Obfervations upon Profper Alpinus, concerning Egyptian Plants ; printed at Padua' 1638, in Quarto. Virgilius Afarceilus's Interpretation of Diofcorides, with Commentaries of the fame ; printed at Cologn 1529, in Folio. Z. Giacomo Zanoni’s flerbal, taken from the publick Phyftck-Garden at Bologna ; printed there 1675, in Folio. P 0 MET's