Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chilias, in quâ remediorum elegantium & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes ferè medendi intentiones accommodata, candidè proponuntur; cum viribus, operand

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Author: Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) Year: 1790 Publisher: Apud Josephum Orlandelli Place: Venetiis (Venice) Description: xxxii+264 pages; 152 pages; 66 pages with index, [1 blank]; 112 pages with appendix. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in full leather with label to spine in gilt lettering. First published in 1701. All Venice editions include three additional pharmaceutical works: a collection of recipes by Philipp Fraundorffer first published in 1699, Wolfgang Christian's "thesaurus" of the work of Daniel Ludwig first published in 1707 and Joseph Jackson's medical compendium first published in 1698. Pharmacopoeia extemporanea caused quite a stir by giving away medical recipes previously guarded jealously by doctors. He explains his motives in The Preface. Thomas Fuller was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He studied Descartes and Willis, and retained till old age a liking for their methods ( Exanthemologia , p. xii). In 1676 he graduated M.B., and in 1681 M.D., and in February 1679 was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians of London. He commenced practice at Sevenoaks, Kent, and there continued throughout life, attaining large practice and great popularity, which was increased in his old age by his undertaking at his own charge the proceedings in chancery necessary for a reform of the Senoke charity. He published three collections of prescriptions, ‘ Pharmacopœia Extemporanea,’ 1701 (3rd edition, 1705; 4th, 1708; 6th, 1731), ‘ Pharmacopœia Bateana

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