Friderici Hoffmanni, Medic. D. Administr. Archiepiscop. Magdeburg. medici, Opus de methodo medendi
Subtitle: juxta seriem Wallaeianam, annexis fundamentis astrologicis, ex veterum ac recentiorum scriptis concinnatum, dogmaticis, Paracelsicis, Helmontianis, Harveianis principiis & propriis observationibus illustratum, elegantissimis chymicis flosculis  adornatum
By: cum praefatione magni istius medici domini D. Johannis Michaelis
Contributors: Paracelsus, 1493-1541; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644; Michaelis, Johann, 1606-1667
Publisher: Impensis Christiani Kirchneri, Bibliop. literis Christiani Michaelis
Published: 1668
Place of publication: Lipsiae [Leipzig]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Fever; Bezoars; Sassafras; Guaiac; Vegetable Materia medica; Medical Botany; Medicinal plants
Other titles: Opus de methodo medendi.
Notes: Includes information on pharmaceuticals developed from the new and exotic plants and animals discovered in the East and West Indies; there is a substantial section on the treatment of fevers, a section on bezoar stones, the wood of the sassafras plant, the guaiacum plant of Peru, the "lignum indicum" in Santo Domingo and on the island of Saint John, and other plants in New Spain.

Signatures: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) A-3K⁴ (U3 missigned V3) 4A-4D⁴

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Includes index.

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

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Sallander, H. Bib. Walleriana, 4649.

Wellcome cat. printed books, III:283.