Medulla medicinæ universæ, or, A new compedious dispensary : wherein is contain'd, in a direct summary wary, all that is essentially necessary, either with respect to physick or surgery, to answer every medicinal intention of cure

Medulla medicinæ universæ, or, A new compedious dispensary : wherein is contain'd, in a direct summary wary, all that is essentially necessary, either with respect to physick or surgery, to answer every medicinal intention of cure

New compendious dispensatory|Dispensary

[1st ed.]

London Printed for Jacob Robinson 1747

[2], iv, [2], 62 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

L2004F189 1747

(OCoLC)14303802

Spine title: Dispensary
Mainly compiled by John Pringle (at that time physician to the military hospital in Flanders); edited by John Theobald, with English translation and commentary
Leaf A4r, half title: Medulla medicinæ universæ : sive, materia pharmaceutica in breve compendium redacta; leaf E1r, half title: A new compendious dispensary : being a transaltion of the foregoing pharmacopoeia. With a brief intimation under each recipe of it's particular uses and efficacy
Signatures: A-C4 E-I4 K4(-K4)
Shortly before the army's embarkation for the Low Countries, a committee of various army medical personnel were ordered to inquire into the practice and management of military hospitals, and the state of the military surgeon's equipment; this pharmacopoeia resulted from that inquiry
"Invoice of a pair of regimental chests."(p. 57-58): list of medicines and instruments to be included in the regimental medicine chest, with prices
Includes indexes
Modern bookplate: Ex libris, H. E. Brocksom

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