The practice of physick, in seventeen several books : wherein is plainly set forth, the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs, together with the cure of all diseases in the body : being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ... / by Nicholas Culpeper, ... Abdiah Cole, ... and William Rowland ... ; to which are added, Four books containing five hundred and thirteen observations of famous cures, by the same author ; and a fifth book of Select medicinal counsels, by John Fernelius ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.

Contributor:

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

Cole, Abdiah, approximately 1610-approximately 1670.

Rowland, William, active 1652-1672.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Praxis medica. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 645, that is, 518 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 463, that is, 363 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 1 leaf of plates : portraits ; 30 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Practice of physick.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J. Streater, and are to be sold by Geo. Sawbridge ..., 1668.

Notes:

Translation of Praxis medica, and Observationum medicarum centuriae quatuor, by Rivière, and Consiliorum medicinalium liber, by Fernel.

The "Four books" have a special t.p. and separate paging and signatures.

The names of the translators appear after the words "diseases in the body."

Paging irregular.

"Additions of Observations and histories of famous and rare cures": p. 419 [i.e. 319]-463 [i.e. 363] (last group).

Numerous errors in paging.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) R1562

Contains:

Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655. Observationum medicarum centuriae quatuor. English. 1668.

Fernel, Jean, 1497-1558. Consiliorum medicinalium liber. English. Selections. 1668.

OCLC:

82159357