Warhaffte und gründliche Cur aller dem menschlichen Leibe zustossenden Kranckheiten
Subtitle: nach der Vernünfftigen und unverrückten Methode der Natur, samt einem Physico-moralischen Vorbericht von dem menschlichen Leibe, und der darinn würckenden Seele, entworffen, und mit vielen Medicamentis specificis versehen
By: von Doct. Christian Weissbach
Edition: Die achte Aufflag.
Publisher: Verlegts Joh. Reinhold Dulssecker
Published: 1739
Place of publication: Strassburg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 569
Subjects: Snuff; Jalap; Tobacco; Balsam poplar; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medical Botany; Sarsaparilla; Pharmacopoeias; Vegetable Materia medica; Medicine; Syphilis; Guaiac; Sassafras
Notes: Virgule on title page replaced by a comma in title page transcription.

First edition printed in Strasbourg in 1712.

Includes numerous references to botanical material from the New World including tobacco, snuff, jalap, Indian balsam, guaiac, sarsaparilla, and sassafras; also includes a mention of syphilis.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) a-e⁸ A-2O⁸ 2P⁶ (-2P6) (2P5 verso blank)

Title page printed in red and black; woodcut printer's vignette of a ship on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 485.

Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), 13151002.

Purchase; 2016; 17-198.

Text primarily in German with botanical names in Latin and German.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum over boards with gilt tooled arms on cover.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Bloomingdale Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: two unidentified book stamps on verso of title page.