Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea or A Body of Medicines
Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea
or
A Body of Medicines
Containing A Thousand Select Prescripts
Answering Most Intentions of Cure
To which are added
Useful Scholia, a Catalogue of Remedies and Copious Index,
For the Assistance of Young Physicians
Fuller, Thomas
Published William Innys, London 1714
£320
2nd edition with large additions, 8vo., (195x125x45mm.), contemporary Cambridge panel calf binding, later leather titling label, plain spine with 5 raised bands, [32] 512pp., (32pp Index),
Corners slightly bumped, very good.
This publication was controversial at the time because it gave away medical recipes previously guarded jealously by doctors. There is a fascinating preface explaining his reasons for publication. He also describes there, most fulsomely, his attitude to dedications frequently found in books such as these.
Examples of medicinal tinctures you ask? –
Fine powdered bark of Peru, syrup of marshmallow, peacock’s dung