The Practice of Physick, In Seventeen several Books. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several sorts of Signs; Together with the Cure of all Diseases of the Body.,,By Nicholas Culpeper. Abdiah Cole. William Rowland. Being chiefly a Translation of the Works of that Learned and Renowned Doctor, Lazarus Riverius, sometimes Councellor and Physitian to the King of France. Two which are added, Four Books Containing Five hundred and thirteen Observations of Famous Cures. By the Same Author. And a Fifth 3ook of Select Medicinal Counsels. By John Fernelius

Folio. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Some ink notations, including a recipe for 'plague water' (!) on rear blank. Wing R 1563. With the rare engraved frontispiece. This engraving has the portraits of Riverius, Culpepper, Cole, and Fernel. (8);645;110;463;(32); Small folio in contemporary calf, newly rebacked. Foxing in parts. Worming of inner margins of first few leaves. Interesting associatlon item with a presentation note cn front blank "Samuel J. Mixter from L. Vernon Briggs 1912" (then represented to) "S.J. Mixter to Wm Jason Mixter 1921". Mixter is best remembered for his description of the herniated lumbar disc and its association with sciatia, done with Joseph S. Barr in 1934 (See Garrison Morton 4435). Lazare Riverius (1589-1655) was a celebrated French plysician who served the court of the King of France. A native medicine at Montpellier in 1622 and, although late,* invited to teach at Toulouse and Bologna, remained at description of aortic stenosis, correction of many of the errors of Caien. rie was early end strong proponent of the works William Harvey on blood circulation. The pesent work contains transiations of his Praxis mieuieu and Observationum medicarum centuriae quatuor as well as a translation of Fernel's Constliorium medicinalium libr, one of the most orderly study of Fernel's writings.…