Author: KIRCHMAIER, M.G.C. [Praes.].- L.J. FREY [Def.].-
Title: De coralio, balsamo et saccharo. Publicè disp. L.J. Frey.
Description: no pl. (Wittebergae), Exprimebat Matthaeus Henckelius, 1661. 4to. Recent stiff marbled brds. [A - C4]. (XXII, II, blank). (Some even browning throughout.). (Large bookplate on upper free endp. 'E.Grendel' (pharmacist). Waring, bibliotheca therapeutica does not incorporate Kirchmaier under coral, balsamics or sugar. : the first book on balsamics mentioned by Waring is Grimberg, 1698, Waring I, 139: Ferchl 273. Partington II, 363: Ferguson I, 469: '... born at Uffenheim ... July 1635. He became professor of rhetoric at Wittenberg ... he was a man of immense attainments and his studies embraced numismatics, physics, chemistry, metallurgy, mineralogy, zoology and medicine and his numerous works on the most varied subjects won and maintained for him great celebrity.': Jöcher II, 2097: Haller, Bibl. Bot. I, 509: Eloy II, 639: Krivatsy, 6427: Pogg. I, 1261: Hirsch III, 529/30: Comp. Weil, 32, 98 mentioning Kirchmaier's early and detailed account on the phosphorecence of fluor spar (1680): A rare thesis.

Keywords: materia medica physiology history pharmacology pharmacy Vilia