BARBETTE, Paul The practice of the most successful Physitian Paul Barbette.... London: T.R. for Henry Brome, 1675
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH., 8vo., [xiv], 271, [1] pp., including publisher's catalogue.
Engraved frontispiece by F.H. Van Howe. Text in double columns. Recent calf in an antique style; light foxing on first and last leaves. Contemporary ownership inscription of R. Offley with price., First edition in English of the Praxis Barbettiana (Leiden, 1669), based on the large and successful medical practice of the Dutch physician Paul Barbette. Describes diseases of the head, epilepsy, apoplexy, palsy, diseases of the kidneys, liver, stomach and chest, obstetrics and gynecology; general uses of herbs and specific recipes which call for Crab's-eyes, the blood of a hog or Lohoch of the lungs of a wolf.
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