Cicutae aquaticae historia et noxae
Subtitle: Commentario illustrata
By: a Joh. Jacobo Wepfero Med. Doct. Scaphusiano
Publisher: Apud Joh. Rodolphum König.; Imprimebat Joh. Rodolphus Genathius.
Published: 1679
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Pre-Linnean works; Botany; Umbelliferae; Jalap; Cicuta
Other titles: Cicvtae aqvaticae historia et noxae.
Notes: Cicuta, commonly known as water hemlock, is a small genus of four species of highly poisonous plants in the family Apiaceae. Water hemlock is considered one of North America's most toxic plants, being highly poisonous to humans. The author also includes description of jalap (p. 221-223) from the New World.

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Includes index.

Woodcut printer's vignette of a lion and a griffin on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes five illustrated figures numbered I-V printed on the recto and verso of two leaves of plate bound between p. 4 and 5.

Waring, E.J. Bibliotheca therapeutica, p. 336.

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 2136.

Garrison, F.H. Medical bibliography (Garrison and Morton) (5th ed.), 974.1.

Catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 12949.

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVII. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 32:679613U.

Purchase; 2016; 17-199.

Text primarily in Latin with some words and passages in German and Greek.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in 18th century calf with marbled boards.

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