Michaelis Bernhardi Valentini prof. medici ... Polychresta exotica in curandis affectibus contumacissimis probatissima ...
Subtitle: ut et nova herniarum cura. Accedunt seorsim olim editae ... Dissertationes epistolicae varii argumenti ...
Contributors: Camerarius, Rudolf Jakob, 1665-1721; Zunner, Johann David, fl. ca. 1653-1705, publisher
Publisher: Sumptibus Johannis Davidis Zunneri ...
Published: 1700
Place of publication: Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Medicine; Enema; Fertilization of plants; Early works to 1800; Moxa
Other titles: De sexu plantarum
Work titles: Polychresta exotica
Notes: Title in red and black.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

A woodcut decorative wreath border, with motto "Nullius in verba", appears on the verso of the t.p.

Errors in paging.

Signatures: )(⁴ A-2O⁴.

Errata on p. [1] (3rd group).

Final leaf is blank (wanting in Dibner Library copy).

"Dissertationes epistolicae" has special half-title (p. [113]).

Text, p. 197-203, and plate VI, describe use of the moxa in gout.

Text includes as Appendix I, p. 225-268, the De sexu plantarum epistola of R.J. Camerarius, first published separately in Tubingen, 1694, the first experimental proof of sexual activity and pollination in plants; cf. Printing and the mind of man, 165.

Includes index.

Dibner Library. Heralds of Science (1980 ed.), 25

SCDIRB copy is bound with: Valentini, M.B. [Declamationes panegyricae]. Francofurti ad Moenum : Sumptibus Johannis Davidis Zunneri, MDCCI [1701]. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has a contemporary blind-tooled full vellum binding with title inked on spine.
Table of contents: title: (From t.p.) Fabae S. Ignatii; title: Ipecacuanha; title: Pedra del porco; title: China chinae; title: Clyster tabacinus; title: Panacea gallorum.