A Collection of Receipts in Physic, being the entire practice of a late eminent physician: containing a complete body of prescriptions answering to every disease. With some in surgery. To which are added, by the editor, occasional remarks, directions, and cautions, suited to the different stages of distempers, in order to render this work particularly useful in families.

(BROXHOLME, Noel)

Published by Printed for Lockyer Davis. 1752, 1752

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[iv], 12, 108, [4]pp ads, [8]pp index. 8vo. Occasional ink annotations throughout. Contemp. quarter half calf over limp paper-covered boards; worn & rubbed, expert repairs to spine, both pastedowns torn in places. Contemp. ink inscriptions on half title 'No. 2 Saint James's/ in case Mr Stone' and 'Supposed to be by Dr. Broxholme'. ESTC N14814. FIRST EDITION; not in BL; Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester and Wellcome in UK; California State Library, Countway Medical Library, US National Library of Medicine, University of Minnesota only in US. Author attribution from ESTC. Scarce in commerce; only two second editions appearing in auction records in 1948 and 1935 and no sales records of this first edition. Noel Broxholme, 1689-1748, physician to the Prince of Wales and member of the College of Physicians, committed suicide on 8 July, 1748. This work contains 196 recipes for medical treatments: their Latin names, purpose, and remarks on dosages, suitable substitutes, and different methods for making the medicines are also recorded. Treatments listed include an electuary against a gonorrhea, a gargle for a cancerous mouth, a draught for the scurvy, the pill against the French pox, a sleeping pill, a potion against the gout, the antivenereal tincture, and many others. Seller Inventory # 90992

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Title: A Collection of Receipts in Physic, being ...

Publisher: Printed for Lockyer Davis. 1752

Publication Date: 1752

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition