An appendix to The unlearned alchimist : wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent diaphoretick and diuretick pill, purging by sweat and urine, commonly known by the name of Matthew’s pill : with the exact manner of preparing and making of it, and the particular nature and virtue of the several ingredients, as also of the pill / by G. Kendall ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendall, George, 1610-1663, author, bookseller.

Contributor:

Leigh, Joseph, active 1662-1665, bookseller.

Mathews, Richard, -1661., bibliographic antecedent.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Genre:

Early works.

Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.

Physical Description:

[8], 54 pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

ldat ndin omo- seme (3) 1664 (Q)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Joseph Leigh, and are to be sold by him at his shop in Bazing-hall-street : And are to be sold by the author, as also the pill, antidote, and oyl of amber, at the Green Dragon in Ave-Mary Lane, [1664?]

Notes:

Imprint date from ESTC.

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁸(-D8).

Type ornament head-piece.

Errata on page 54.

Local Notes:

Smith copy bound with: Mathews, Richard. The unlearned alchymist his antidote, or. A more full and ample explanation of the use, virtue and benefit of my pill. London : Printed for Joseph Leigh, at the upper end of Bazing-hall-street, near the Nags-head Tavern, 1663.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

Smith copy bound in full contemporary blind-ruled sheep; pastedowns wanting.

Cited in:

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica t chemica, p. 395

Wing K283

ESTC R8493

Related Work:

Mathews, Richard, -1661. Unlearned alchymist, bibliographic antecedent.

OCLC:

53182053