Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples - 1759
Universal Dictionary of Simple Drugs
By Lemery
This book contains all the plants, minerals and animals that went to make up the remedies used in those days. Some of them are quite surprising to our modern eyes.
Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples - 1759
Universal Dictionary of Simple Drugs
Containing their Names, Origins, Choices, Principles, Virtues, Etimology; & what is peculiar in Animals, in Vegetables, & in Minerals
By Nicolas LEMERY, whose portrait appears on the frontispiece of the book.
Livre de Pharmacopée ancien et illustré de 1759
Printed in Paris, by D'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans in 1759.
Complete with 25 plates engraved in intaglio at the end of the work, comprising 400 figures of plants and animals used in pharmacopoeia.
Full leather binding, 5-ribbed spine with gilt bindings.
Corners and covers dull.
1019 pages + 25 plates
This work contains all the plants, minerals and animals used in the remedies of the time. Some of them are quite surprising to our modern eyes.
A small selection:
Wearing hippopotamus teeth on some part of the body to cure haemorrhoids, using hippopotamus testicles against snake bites.
For scurvy, it's advisable to use a well-fattened and well-nourished viper to make a drinking broth. Also works for scabies and smallpox.
To combat epilepsy, grate and powder a human skull, choosing one from a young man of good character who has died a violent death but has not been buried. Preferably someone who has been tortured to death, like the hanged men left to rot on the gallows...
To counteract poisons, we always use the horn of the sea unicorn, the Narwhal. It can also be hung around the neck to protect against bad air.
Size: In-4: 27x21cm
Complete
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Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples - 1759
Universal Dictionary of Simple Drugs
By Lemery
This book contains all the plants, minerals and animals that went to make up the remedies used in those days. Some of them are quite surprising to our modern eyes.
