Europae arcana medica id est: Collectanea physico-medico-practica ex ephemeridum Germaniae naturae curiosorum vastis voluminibus studiose in compendium redacta
Subtitle: In quibus continetur omne id laconicè contractum, quod praxin medicam concernens  in ephemeridum G.N.C. libris sparsim legitur, H.E. omnia arcana, experimenta & remedia polychresta ab experientissimis Europae medicis multo vsu approbata et consignata
By: Studio et labore, Henrici Josephi Cohausen, Phil. & medicinae doctoris, Vredenae Westphalorum physici
Contributors: Cohausen, Salentin Ernst Eugen, 1703-1779
Publisher: Ex Officina Knoch-Eslingeriana
Published: 1757
Place of publication: Francofurti & Lipsiae
Language: lat
Subjects: Jalap; Cinchona bark; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medical Botany; Chocolate; Sarsaparilla; Pharmacopoeias; Vegetable Materia medica; Quinine; Medicine; Guaiac; Sassafras
Other titles: Europae arcana medica.; Collectanea physico-medico-practica ex ephemeridum Germaniae naturae curiosorum vastis voluminibus studiose in compendium redacta.
Notes: Title page to volume 2 reads: "Europae arcana medica id est: Collectanea physico-medico-practica ex ephemeridum Germaniae naturae curiosorum curiosorum centuriis et actis studiose in compendium redacta et conscripta in quibus omnia experimenta, remedia polychresta & ab experientissimis Europae archiatris professoribus ac medicis clinicis annotata, usu confirmata & consignata in phyliatrorum & practicantium commodum recensentur & tomum II. constituunt. Studio Salentini Ernesti Eugenii Cohausen Phil. & Med. doctoris C.F. & archiatri treviro confluentini Acad. G.N.C. socii &c. Volumen II dum", and has imprint: Francofurti & Lipsiae: Ex Officina Knoch-Eslingeriana, MDCCLX.

Recipes and formulas include the usage of American plants such as Jalap, Peruvian bark, guaiacum, sassafras, Peruvian balsam, quinine, sarsaparilla, and chocolate.

Pagination: v. 1: [20], 598, [18] p.; v. 2: [32], 398, [18] p.

Signatures: v. 1: )(⁸ )( )(² A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴; v. 2: )(⁸ )( )(⁸ A-2C⁸

Includes indexes.

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes symbols possibly indicating measurments in the formulas throughout the text.

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, II: 366.

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 92 (v. 1 only)

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts, 90009606.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary sueded calf with marbled boards.

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