Von Würckungen derer Artzneyen in dem menschlichen Leibe, zeigende die wahre Ursach von deren unterschiedlichen Würckungen
Subtitle: Wie auch ein Entwurff von einer neuen Pharmacie, nach der heutigen Arth Artzneyen zu verschreiben
By: Beydes durch Steph. Blankart, Ph. & M.D. und Practicum zu Amsterdam[.] Vorgestellet und aus dem Niederländischen ins Hochteutsche übergesetzet von Johann Christian Rodochs, D.
Contributors: Rodochs, Johann Christian, 1664-approximately 1750; Sterre, David van der, -1691
Publisher: Verlegts Joh. Friedrich Gleditsch
Published: 1690
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Snuff; Tobacco; Aloe; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine; Pharmacy; Guaiac; Pharmacopoeias; Balsam poplar; Peppers; Acupuncture; Materia medica, vegetable
Work titles: Verhandelinge van de opertatien ofte werkingen der medicamenten ins̀ menschen lighaam
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Translation, by Johann Christian Rodochs, of the author's: Verhandelinge van de opertatien ofte werkingen der medicamenten ins̀ menschen lighaam, printed in Amsterdam, 1690.

Pages 52-72 contain a letter by Dionysius van der Sterre dated Curacao October 9, 1688, concerning his experiences in the West Indies.

"Pharmacopoea, oder Apothecker-Bewölbe, gestellet nach der weise der heutigen verbesserten praxi", p. [305]-360, has divisional title page and contains recipes for prescriptions containing such plants as aloe, guaiac, and Peruvian balsam.

Elsewhere in the text are references to tobacco, snuff, peppers from Brazil, and acupuncture in China and Japan.

Signatures: a⁸ (a1 verso blank) A-Z⁸

Title page printed in red and black; head and tail pieces; initials.

Catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 1334.

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVII. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 23:243212V.

Purchase; 2016; 17-200.

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

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in modern brown morocco with speckled paper-covered boards.

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