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.

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.

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).