Author: LUDOVICI, D. [Ludwig],
Title: De pharmacia, moderno seculo applicanda, dissertationes III.
Description: Gotha, S. Reyher, 1671. 12mo. Vellum. (Spine partially [1/2] unobtrusive old rebacking in vellum; half of original spine still in place.). (Vellum some spotting and soiling.). (VIII, 924, IV (3 blankl) pp.). (Sm. piece cut from title, affecting 1 letter.Printed title mounted; Old [18th c.] annots. in ink on leaf preceding title; pr. t. with annots. / owner ship marks? crossed out in ink.). First edition. Thorndike VIII, pp. 95-96 a.o.pl.: 'In the first of his three dissertations on adapting phamacy to the present age, first printed in Gotha in 1671, he attacked polypharmacy and the over - elaboration of materia medica, and asserted that he limited his account to those drugs which were available and well-known, ...'.: Baas, p. 547: 'other pharmacopoeias were published by D.Ludwig (1625 - 1680, Ludovicus Ludovici) of Weimar, ordinary physician to the Duke of Gotha, the 'immortal reformer of the Materia medica', of whom Stahl sad "that he was the first who ventured to speak boldly concerning the Materia Medica, and who sought in an incomparable way to purify the Augean stable.': Bayle & Thill. vol. I, p. 472: Kremers & Urdang, p. 126: Hirsch vol. III, p. 859: Ferchl, p. 324: Schelenz, P. 540: Not in Waller, not in Wellcome, 2nd ed. 1688 only: Comp. Neu 2559, ed. of 1790 only.:

Keywords: pharmacopeia pharmacology pharmacopoeia pharmacy medicine