D. Johann Ludwig Leberecht Lösecke Abhandlung der auserlesensten Arzneymittel nach derselben Ursprung, Güte, Bestandtheilen, Maasse und Art zu würken
Subtitle: ingleichen wie dieselben aus der Apothecke zu verschreiben sind zum Nutzen seiner Zuhörer abgefatzt
Contributors: Gomperts, Aharon, 1723-1769
Edition: Dritte und verbesserte Auflage / mit Anmerkungen versehen, und mit einer Tabelle vermehret  von A.S. Gumperz der Arzney gelahrheit Doctor.
Publisher: Bey Friederich Nicolai
Published: 1763
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 658
Subjects: Medicine; Pharmacopoeias; Vegetable Materia medica; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medical Botany
Other titles: Abhandlung der auserlesensten Arzneymittel nach derselben Ursprung, Güte, Bestandtheilen, Maasse und Art zu würken.
Notes: First edition printed in Berlin, 1755.

"Von Beschreibung der Artzeyenmittel durch Recepte aus der Apothecke", p. [585]-640, has divisional title page.

"Tabula memorialis synoptica materiae medicae", p. [641]-658, has separate caption title.

Includes description of numerous New World plants such as bezoars, sassafras, chocolate, cinchona bark, guaiac, quinine, cochineal, and tobacco, among others.

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Includes index.

Engraved head and tail pieces.

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, III: p. 537.

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 274.

Purchase; 2016; 17-055.

Text primarily in German with botanical names of plants in Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

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

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Scarrenstend (?): bookplate on front pastedown.