A new treatise on British and foreign vegetables, which are now constantly used in the practice of physick; with an exact Description of them, their Virtues, and various Effects on Human Bodies, and the several Diseases they are peculiarly useful to remove or prevent. Being an improvement upon the Materia medica of the celebrated Steph. Fran. Geoffroy, M.D. And made generally useful, both to private Families as well as to Physicians, Surgeons, Chymists and Apothecaries. with complete indexes of the English and Latin names.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geoffroy, Étienne François, 1672-1731.

Standardized Title:

Tractatus de materia medica. English. Abridgment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],xii,458,[10]p. )

Other Title:

New treatise on British and foreign vegetables,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar, [1751]

Notes:

An abstract, with some additions, of the author's 'Tractalus de materia medica.' - A reissue of 'A treatise on foreign vegetables', 1749, with a cancel titlepage and the addition of an advertisement leaf.

With an initial advertisement leaf and two final contents leaves.

Price from imprint: price 4s Bound.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T132644.

OCLC:

642372345