A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in the practice of physick
By: written a few years since in Latin, by that eminently learned and experienc'd physitian, Dr. John Greenfield ; member of the college of physitians in London ; in his own vindication, upon account of a contest that then happen'd between him and some of the college about his administring them inwardly to his patients ; now translated into English with his approbation, by John Marten, chyrurgeon ;  to which are added several further and very remarkable observations and histories of the said doctor ; also of the translator and others concerning the safe, prevalent, effectual and wonderful vertures of cantharides ; internally administred in divers difficult and deplorable distempers, as ulcers of the kidney's and bladder, stone, gravel, strangury, dropsies, and some particular venereal cases ; most clearly evincing that without them, those diseases can never be cured ; as also an anatomical and chymical account of that insect, with some very curious observations relating thereto ; made by the fire and microscope ; likewise a letter to the doctor of the effects of cantharides in the gout, to which is subjoin'd a true history of that cruel disease; and how far cantharides contributes toward its cure
Contributors: Marten, John, -1737; Wale, Jeffery, bookseller; Isted, John, 1676 or 1677- bookseller
Publisher: Printed for Jeffery Wale at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard, : and John Isted at the Golden Ball against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-street
Published: 1706
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Cantharides; Early works to 1800; Physiology; Cantharidin; Irritants
Work titles: Tutus cantharidum in medicina usus internus
Notes: Errata notes on p. [38].

BMN 3-279

English short title catalogue (ESTC), 64914

In English, translated from Latin.