Michaelis Bernhardi Valentini, Prof. medici & p.t. Acad. Gissenae rectoris Polychresta exotica in curandis affectibus contumacissimis probatissima
Subtitle: scil. fabae S. Ignatii, ipecacuanha, pedra del porco, china chinae, clyster tabacinus, panacea Gallorum, vt et nova herniarum cura : accedunt seorsim olim editae, nunc autem ad desiderium plurimorum conjunctim denuò prodeuntes Dissertationes epistolicae varii argumenti : cum fig. aeneis.
Contributors: Camerarius, Rudolf Jakob, 1665-1721.; Spener, Christian Maximilian, 1678-1714.
Publisher: Praestat [i.e. Prostat?] in officina Joannis Adami Jungii
Published: 1701
Place of publication: Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.; Materia medica -- Germany -- History.; Botany -- Germany -- Pre-Linnean works.; Botany -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Pre-Linnean works.; Sources.
Other titles: Polychresta exotica in curandis affectibus contumacissimis probatissima
Notes: "Remède du Prieur de Cabrières" for hernia (p. 91-94) has French original and Latin translation in parallel columns. "De methodo Gallorum saliuatoria" for syphilis (p. 100-112) is a translation from the French.
Title page in red and black. "Dissertationes epistolicae" have half t.p. (p. [113])
Of the contents listed below, particularly important in the history of science is the pioneering study included here as an appendix on p. 225-268, De sexu plantarum by R.J. Camerarius, formulated as a letter to Valentini and printed originally in 1694. Cf. Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books, 17.
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"Errata corrigenda": p. [294].
Table of contents: title: Polychrestorum exoticorum diss. I, De fabis S. Ignatii; title: Disputatio II, De ipecacuanha; title: Disputatio III, De lapide porcino; title: Disputatio IV, De china chinae; title: Disputatio V, De clystere tabacino; title: Disputatio VI, De nova herniarum cura; title: Appendix, De methodo Gallorum saliuatoriâ; title: Dissertationes epistolicae: 1. De naturâ et essentiâ naturae; 2. De consuetudine altera naturâ; 3. De natura medicâ; 4. De instinctu naturae; 5. De lusu et erroribus naturae; 6. De monstrorum Hassiacorum ortu atque causis; 7. De origine fontium; 8. De moxâ atque podagrâ; 9. De nova matricis anatome; 10. De selectu principiorum & praecavenda medicinae ruina; title: Appendix I: De sexu plantarum epistola D. Rudolphi Jacobi Camerarii (& Appendix II, Michaelis Bernhardi Valentini responsoria); title: Appendix III: De novo haemorrhoidum coecarum remedio epistola D. Christiani Maximiliani Speneri (& Appendix IV, responsoriae); title: Index rerum & verborum.