SALMON, WILLIAM

DORON MEDICUM: OR, A SUPPLEMENT TO THE NEW LONDON DISPENSATORY

1688. Item #89918

SALMON, WILLIAM. DORON MEDICUM: OR, A SUPPLEMENT TO THE NEW LONDON DISPENSATORY. IN THREE BOOKS. CONTAINING A SUPPLEMENT I. TO THE MATERIA MEDICA. II. TO THE INTERNAL COMPOUND MEDICAMENTS III. TO THE EXTERNAL COMPOUND MEDICAMENT. Second edition, corrected. London: Printed for, and sold by T. Dawks, T. Basset, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, and G. Conyers, 1688. 8vo. [14] + 776 + [56] pp. Preface, Contents, Text (Books 1-3) and Index. Subtitle continued: "Completed with the Art of Compounding Medicines: Observations and Exemplifications Chymical: an Idea of the Process of the universal Medicine of Paracelsus, take from an Original Manuscript; Together with many rare Secrets of the Medical Art, not vulgarly known: Some of them gather'd out of the Manuscripts of Famous Men, not yet Printed: Some the Gleanings out of the Vast printed Volumes of Medical Authors ; Others of them communicated by several Worthy & Learned Men of profound Parts, universal Scholars, and Professors of this Art." Salmon's popular translation of the Latin pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians followed Nicholas Culpeper's, but "Salmon does not hesitate to add his own comments as well as formulas and recipes ... chapters on the practice of chemistry were added by Salmon and are not present in the College's pharmacopoeia" (Heirs of Hippocrates 654). Calf stamped in blind, spine missing, front board detached, block split; pp. 369-384 detached. As is. Text complete. Ink ownership on front pastedown of Boston doctor W.P. Bolles, dated 1878, also faculty at the Mass. College of Pharmacy; bookplate of Boston pharmacist Samuel A. D. Sheppard. Wellcome V p. 13; see Heirs 654.

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