Joh. Jacobi Wepferi ... Historia cicutæ aquaticæ, : quâ non solùm plantæ hujus venenatæ structura naturalis, vires & operationes deleteriæ in hominibus ac brutis adcuratè describuntur, sciteque explicantur ... Adjectæ sunt ad calcem dissertationes de thee helvetico ac cymbalaria. / Curante Theodoro Zvingero.

Johann Jakob Wepfer

Date:: 1716

Credit: Joh. Jacobi Wepferi ... Historia cicutæ aquaticæ, : quâ non solùm plantæ hujus venenatæ structura naturalis, vires & operationes deleteriæ in hominibus ac brutis adcuratè describuntur, sciteque explicantur ... Adjectæ sunt ad calcem dissertationes de thee helvetico ac cymbalaria. / Curante Theodoro Zvingero. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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