Deo plantante & incrementum dante, consensu magnifici & gratiosi senatus Asclepiadei sub praesido viri noblissimi, excellentissimi atq[ue] experimentissimi Dn. Johannis Arnoldi Friderici
Subtitle: phil. ac medic. doctoris, anatomiae, chirurgiae ac bontanices P.P. celeberrimi, horti medici collegialis praefecti solertissimi, medici provincialis Saxo-Altenburgici felicissimi, ac p.t. facultatis suae decani spectatissimi, domini praeceptoris, patroni ac promotoris sui avùm venerandi, Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae
By: exponit Gothofredus Beier, Jenensis, autor. ad d. Mart. M. DC. LXX. in auditorio medicorum
Contributors: Beier, Gottfried, active 1669-1677
Publisher: typis Johannis Wertheri
Published: 1670
Place of publication: Jenae [i.e. Jena, Germany]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Aloe; Aloe vera; Medical Botany; Medicinal plants; Medicine
Other titles: Deo plantante et incrementum dante, consensu magnifici et gratiosi senatus Asclepiadei sub praesido viri noblissimi, excellentissimi atq[ue] experimentissimi Dn. Johannis Arnoldi Friderici.; Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae.
Notes: Text primarily in Latin with some words in Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopian languages.

Includes a discussion of the origins of aloe in Arabia and the Indian Ocean regions, the varieties, the nature of its extracts and its uses. Also discusses the cultivation of the aloe and the climate necessary for it to thrive. Includes a number of references to a variety cultivated in the Americas.

Signatures: A-C⁴ (A1 verso blank) D²

Woodcut head piece; initial.

Krivatsky, P. Seventeenth cent. printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 4380.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 670/83.