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 of man / by Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... and William Rowland ; being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ... ; with these books is bound a Physical dictionary explaining hard words used in these books and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.

Contributor:

Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.

Cole, Abdiah, approximately 1610-approximately 1670.

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

Rowland, William

Cole, Peter, -1665, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Dentistry--Early works to 1800.

Dentistry.

Gynecology--Early works to 1800.

Gynecology.

Genre:

Printers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Daroby, Dr. (inscription) (Smith copy)

Wolrich, Tobias, 1683-1742 (former owner) (inscription) (Smith copy)

Grover, Samuel (autograph) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

[14], 182 p., p. 181, p. 184, 245-435, 488-594, 611-645, [17] p., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 29 cm (fol.)

Fingerprint:

s.al he68 p.me pran (3) 1655 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Peter Cole ... and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1655.

Language Note:

English translation of Rivière's Praxis medica cum theoria and Observationum medicarum et curationum insignium centuriae tres. Cf. ESTC.

Notes:

"Above fifteen thousand of the said books in Latin have been sold in a very few yeers, having been eight times printed, though all the former impressions wanted the nature, causes, signs, and differences of the diseases, and had only the medicines for the cure of them; as plainly appears by the authors epistle. The names of the seventeen books of the Practice of physick, and the principal matters treated in each of them, are printed in one sheet of paper, and put before these books."

Signatures: pi1(±pi1) A-C² D-2K⁴ 2Q-3Y⁴ 3Z1 4B-4K² 4L⁴ 4M-4N².

"Title page is a cancel, replacing the unissued title 'The compleat practice of physick, in eighteen several books.'"--ESTC.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Woodcut title vignette (coat of arms) and initial.

Type ornament factotums, head- and tail-pieces.

Title within border of double rules; running titles and page numbers within parallel horizontal rules.

Physical dictionary has special dated title leaf (with woodcut vignette), which reads: A physical dictionary, expounding such words, as being terms of art, or otherwise derived from the Greek and Latin, are dark to the English reader. This dictionary is of use in the reading of all other books of this nature, in the English tongue. London: Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil. 1655.

Text of Physical dictionary printed in double columns.

Printer's advertisement on leaf B1.

Errata on leaf 4N2v.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy has bound in at end 90 p. of ms. (numbered 663-732) with title: A collection of choice and approved receipts in physick and chyrurgery &c. &c. Tobias Wolrich Anno dom[ini] 1725.

Smith copy imperfect: plate wanting.

Smith copy has early ms. pagination ("646"-"662") on leaves 4K2v-4N2v; early ms. annotations on leaves of Physical dictionary.

Smith copy has ms. note ("With MS Recipes at end") in pencil on front free endpaper; dated 18th-century ms. note ("Memorandum 1780. Every year paint the Garret windows & sky light to preserve them rain-tight - The putty must crack in such exposures - Cistern. Take care in frosty weather to keep the ice broke, otherwise it will probably break the Stone. Dr. Daroby of York prescrib'd for me on my road to Scarbro' 2d Augt. 1760 - after my Miliary Fever the preceding winter.") on verso of front free endpaper; early ms. inscription ("Richmond") on leaf 4N2v.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Dean Byass Manuscripts and Rare Books.

Smith copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Toby Wolrich Booke") of Tobias Wolrich (1683-1742) on title leaf; early autograph ("Saml. Grover") on leaf D1r.

Smith copy: title leaf detached and mounted on a blank leaf; boards and endpapers detached; backstrip largely wanting.

Cited in:

Wing R1559

ESTC R31176

Related Work:

Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655. Praxis medica cum theoria. English.

Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655. Observationum medicarum et curationum insignium centuriae tres. English.

OCLC:

14298334