Pharmacopoeia, Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory. In Six Books. Translated into English for the Publick Good; And fitted to the whole Art of Healing.. by Salmon, William - 1678

London: Printed by Thomas Dawks, 1678. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. [...Illustrated with the Preparations, Virtues and Uses of all Simple Medicaments, Vegitable, Animal and Mineral: Of all the Compounds, both Internal and External: And of all the Chymical Preperations now in Use. Together with several choice Medicines added by the Author. As also, the Praxis of Chymistry, As it is now Exercised, fitted to the meanest Capacity.] Paneled calf with framed in blind tooled lines. Title in gilt on new purple leather spine label, with new endpapers. [16] 896 p.p. Two small stains to upper front board. Some light rubbing to edges, boards. Some trimming to pages, not affecting text. Light foxing and browning to pages, otherwise a near fine copy of this scarce medical text by apothecary and 'doctor of physick' William Salmon [1644-1713], a prolific medical writer who owned an apothecary near St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, seeing patients who had been turned away. Salmon would treat all diseases, sold special prescriptions and his own, as well as drugs in general, cast horoscopes, and professed alchemy. [DNB, Vol. I, p. 209]. This work includes an assortment of tinctures, elixirs, wines, roots, stones, and salts as well as other herbal and natural remedies. Wing, S437A.