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

All titles

• 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
• Tractatus de materia medica. English. Abridgment

People / Organizations

• É­tienne François Geoffroy (Author)
• William Owen ("printed for")

Imprint

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

Publication year

1751

ESTC No.

T132644

Grub Street ID

181549

Description

[2],xii,458,[10]p. ; 8°.

Note

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.

Uncontrolled note

Henrey 747