A medicinal dispensatory, containing the vvhole body of physick : discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals: the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions; three books of physical materials galenical and chymical. Together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop. Accommodated with three useful tables. Composed by the illustrious Renodaeus, Chief Physician to the monarch of France; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary.
1657
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A medicinal dispensatory, containing the vvhole body of physick : discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals: the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions; three books of physical materials galenical and chymical. Together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop. Accommodated with three useful tables. Composed by the illustrious Renodaeus, Chief Physician to the monarch of France; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary.
Uniform title
Dispensatorium medicum. English
Created/published
London : Printed by Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel; and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle neer the west-end of Pauls, 1657.
Description
[52], 94, 97-168, 159-174, 177-216, [8], 217-404, 377-472, [6], 471-472, 481-738, [24] p., [1] leaf of plates ; (fol.)
Associated name
Renou, Jean de. author.
Tomlinson, Richard (Apothecary)
Tomlinson, Richard (Apothecary)
Note
With an added engraved title page: Renodaeus his dispensatory: containing the whole body of pharmacy. Translated by Rich. Tomlinson aApothecary 1657.
Engraved title page = plate.
English translation of: Dispensatorium medicum.
Includes index.
"Three books of medicinal materials" has separate dated title page on 2F4r; pagination and register are continuous.
"The pharmaceutrical shop" has separate dated title page on 3N1r; pagination and register are continuous.
Signatures: [a]² b-g⁴ B-2F⁴ *⁴ 2G-3F⁴, ²3A-3F⁴, 3G-5B⁴ 5C1.
Engraved title page = plate.
English translation of: Dispensatorium medicum.
Includes index.
"Three books of medicinal materials" has separate dated title page on 2F4r; pagination and register are continuous.
"The pharmaceutrical shop" has separate dated title page on 3N1r; pagination and register are continuous.
Signatures: [a]² b-g⁴ B-2F⁴ *⁴ 2G-3F⁴, ²3A-3F⁴, 3G-5B⁴ 5C1.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), R1037C
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R226884
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R226884
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
135- 123f
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: t.p. cropped, affecting imprint, lacking added engraved t.p. Bd.w.: A physical dictionary. ... London, 1657. Cropped, affecting headlines. Provenance: inscription on front fly-leaf: "John Heynes"; purchased by Folger from Alfred Wilson, 25 Sept. 1951, 18:107