A plain introduction to the art of physick, containing the fundamentals, and necessary preliminaries to practice. To which is added, the materia medica contracted. And alphabetical tables of the vertues of roots, barks, ... Also a collection of choice medicines chymical and Galenical. Together with a different way of making the most celebrated compositions in the apothecaries shops / [John Pechey].

  • Pechey, John, 1655-1716
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1697
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A plain introduction to the art of physick, containing the fundamentals, and necessary preliminaries to practice. To which is added, the materia medica contracted. And alphabetical tables of the vertues of roots, barks, ... Also a collection of choice medicines chymical and Galenical. Together with a different way of making the most celebrated compositions in the apothecaries shops / [John Pechey]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Henry Bonwicke, 1697.

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16 unnumbered pages, 390 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; (8vo)

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"The second part ... Materia medica contracted, was chiefly collected from Etmuller and Marggravius. Lastly, I have added, Marggrav's Shopcompositions " Cf. Preface
Copy 1 Note: With bookplate of Sir Philip Touchet Chetwode, Bt. [d. 1764], and signature of his father, Sir John Chetwode, Bt. [d. 1733] on verso of t.p.

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Wing P1027
ESTC R1503
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), P1027

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