Usus herbarum theae

Waldschmidt, (J. J.) Gründtlicher Bericht. 1. Fol. 1. (Title) DEO / plantante et Incrementum / dante / spiritu Sapientiae et Veritatis / nos obumbrante / USUS / HERBARUM THEAE / Publicae Botanicarum Cultorum Censurae / proponitur. / A / Societatis Naturae Curio / sorum Collega. Rhases. 2. (Begins) Qua cura et solicitudine vani / Japati Nepotes ... 25. (End) ... ex veteri formu / la annare et perennare con / tingit. Tantum. II. Fol. 1. (Title) Gründtlicher Bericht, / wie / Ein jeder, Dem seine Ge / sundheit lieb ist, das Thee- / Wasser zu Hausz ge / brauchen, auch ein / Soldat im Feldt / sich damit prae/serviren könne. /// Wollmeynend vorgestellet / à Leopoldino Imperi / alis Academiae / Priamo. 2. (Begins) Von der zeit an, da man den / Dagen und die Studia ... 31. (Ends) ... damit Er in sei/nem stand und nach / seiner profession / sein Amptwoll / Verrichten / könne.

Late 17th century

1 volume 25 ll. + 1 bl. l. + 31 ll. 8vo. 16 × 101/2 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1909.

'Leopoldinus Priamus' is the pseudonym of J. J. Waldschmidt [1644-1689], and his treatise on tea was printed in 1685. The author of the 'Usus herbarum theae' may possibly have used the pseudonym of 'Rhazes', which is the last word of the title. In this short work, the anonymous author expresses the exalted ideas of tea as a universal panacea, to be found in the 'Van het excellenste Kruyd Thee' by Cornelis Bontekoe [1647-1685], of which it is possibly an epitome: the original was first published in 1678.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).