Author: LIEUTAUD, (Joseph) (1703-1780):
Title: Précis de la matière médicale, contenant ce qu'il importe de savoir sur la nature, les propriétés & les doses des médicaments, tant simples qu'officinaux; avec un grand nombre de formules. Nouvelle edition, revue par l'auteur. En 2 volumes.
Description: Paris, Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1781, in-8vo, XXIV + 684 p. / 2 leaves + 592 p. (incl. 32 p. table), light mainly marginal staining in places, libr. stamp on titles, marbled calf bindings on raised bands, red title label on spines, gold tooled spines, top and foot of spines chipped, joints starting but still firm, rubbing to covers, spines and corners, red edges. Good copy. ¶ This long, comprehensive work on pharmacology was widely used by Lieutaud's contemporaries. In it he recommended the use of simple, or "Galenic" medicines, of which the effects are well known, and denounced the polypharmacy of the Arabs and the pyrotechnical remedies that had been fashionable in the preceding century. In the 1st volume the author teaches about internal medicines, the 2nd volume covers external medicines, general as well as food and drink. This pharmacological work is the translation into French of part 2 of Lieutaud's 'Synopsis universae praxeos medicae', revised and updated by the author. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Blake 271; Wellcome III/516; Hirsch III/784; cf. Eimas 864 (éd. 1777).

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