Texts on medical botany

Medicamentorum quaedam formulae in praxi magis familiares; Nuda materia medica D. Tournefort et D. Chirac. A compilation made probably by an English physician, as the names of medicinal plants, etc. are given in English, the words being added in the margins. Contents: Medicamentorum quaedam formulae (48 pp.); Nuda materia medica (285 pp.); Index ... remediorum et morborum (18 ll.); Syllabus materiae medicae (29 pp.).

c. 1725

1 volume 48 pp. + 4 ll. (3 bl.). + 285 pp. + 18 ll. + 29 pp. + 1 l. 8vo. 15 × 101/2 cm. Paper covers. A general title-page is wanting.

Purchased at Sotheby's 30/7/1941, Lot 368.

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).

Ex-libris of the novelist William [Tufnell] Le Queux [1864-1927] pasted inside the upper cover. From the Library of W. M. Safford, an American student of the Baconian theory, and afterwards in that of H. C. Hadrill.