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, / Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson.

Viris Optimis, Arte Medicinali, Prudentia, necnon Rerum usu Spectatissimis, omniq[ue] Virtutum genere Cumulatissimis: D. D. Edwardo Greaveo, & Timotheo Clerko, in Medicorum Societatem venerandam Collegii Londinensis merito ac rite cooptatis: Hanc suam Metaphrasin, sive Metaboahn, D.D. Illustrissimi Joannis de Renou, Medici apud Gallos Professoris[.] Regii: Richardus Tomlinsonus, Pharmacopola, Summo Observentiae vestrae, & Utilitatis Publicae desiderio, Patrocinii spe exoptatissimi; Pie, Humillime, Submisseq[ue]; Dicat, Dedicat, ac Amandat

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.

2 flyleaves, 27 unnumbered leaves, 738 (numbered until 472, with 6 unnumbered pages, thereafter continuing with 471, 472, 481, 482 etc.), 42 unnumbered leaves, 2 flyleaves : add. engr. t.page with portraits ; (folio)

Identical to editions of same year except for imprint on main t.p.

With an added engraved title page: Renodæus his Dispensatory Containing The whole Body of Pharmacy. Translated by Rich: Tomlinson Apothecary 1657

With an additional title page (p.473): 'The Pharmaceutical shop, Divided into Two Parts. The first whereof Treats Of Internal, and the second of External Medicaments. By the Author Joannes Renodaeus, Physician in Paris. Englished By Richard Tomlinson, Apothecary. London: Printed by J. Streater, and J. Cottrel. 1657.' Includes the following prefaces: 'To his Honoured, Learned, and Vertuous Friend, William Witheings Esq.', by Rich. Tomlinson, 'The Preface to the Reader'

Includes the following prefaces: 'To the reader, but Specially to his Brethren the Apothecaries of London', by R. Tomlinson, 'The Author's Epistle, by way of Preface, to the Reader'. by Richard [Tomlinson], 'Richard Jackson Master of Arts, and Student in Philosophy, to The Gentlemen of England', by Richard Jackson

With: Complete 'Physical dictionary' bound at end of volume with t.p. correctly placed

Copy 1 Note: With: Complete 'Physical dictionary' bound at end of volume with t.p. correctly placed. Signature of Hugh Jeffreyes (17 cent.) on t.ps. and dedication; MS. notes and receipts in his hand on fly-leaves, blank-pages, etc. with a few on inserted slips. Inserted after sig. Hh4 (pp.234-235) are two printed leaves from a 17 cent. almanack and prognostication, one headed 'White. 1645', presumably the 1645 ed. of John White's 'A new almanack' of which no copy is recorded either in Wing or in B. Capp's 'Astrology and the popular press', London, 1979.

Bound with 'A Physical Dictionary. Or, An Interpretation of such crabbed Words and Terms of Art, as are derived from the Greek or Latin, and used in Physick, Anatomy, Chirurgery, and Chymistry. With a Definition of most Diseases incident to the Body of Man: And a Description of the Marks and Characters used by Doctors in their Receipts. Published for the more perfect understanding of Mr Tomlinsons Translation of Rhaenodaeus Dispensatory, And whatever other Books of Physick and Surgery are extant in the English tongue ... London: Printed by G. Dawson, for John Garfield, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Rolling Press for Pictures, near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, over against Popes-head-alley, 1657.'

Wing [2 ed.] R1037C

ESTC R226884

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), R1037C