G[odofredi] G[uilielmi] L[eibnitii] Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato
Contributors: Brown, John Nicholas, 1900-1979
Publisher: Sumptibus Gothofredi Freytagii
Published: 1696
Place of publication: Hannov. et Gvelpherit [i.e. Hannover and Wolfenbüttel, Germany]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Dysentery; Ipecac (Drug); Medicinal plants
Other titles: Godofredi Guilielmi Leibnitii Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato.; Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato.
Notes: Full Latin name of author supplied by Alden.

First printed in Miscellanea curiosa of the Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Nauturforscher, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1671-1706, series 3, volume 3.

Also issued as part 2 of: Sex exercitationes medicinales de quibusdam morbis chronicis / by Martin Lister, printed in Frankfurt and Leipzig in the same year.

Concerns the use of ipecacuana, which comes from Brazil, for the treatment of dystentary.

Signatures: a-b⁸ (a1 verso blank) c⁴ (-c4)

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initial.

Waring, J. Bib. therapeutica, p. 526.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 696/137.

John Carter Brown Library copy sewn into 18th century marbled stiff wrappers.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of John Nicholas Brown in 1928.