Materia medica physico-historico-mechanica, reyno mineral
Subtitle: A que se ajuntam, os principaes remedios do prezente estado da Materia medica; como sangria, sanguesugas, ventosas sarjadas, emeticos, purgantes, vesicatorios, diureticos, sudorificos, ptyalismicos, opiados, quina quina, e, em especial, as minhas agoas de Ingleterra. Como tambem, huma Dissertaçam latina sobre a inoculaçam das bexigas
By: Composta por Jacob de Castro Sarmento, M.D. ..
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1735
Place of publication: Em Londres [i.e. Lisboa]
Language: por
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: Mineral waters; Therapeutic use; Materia medica
Notes: Second issue, with the initial leaf of privilege granted by the King of Portugal, dated Lisboa Occidental, 4 de septembro de 1736.

Original issue, without privilege, published London, 1735.

No more published in this edition; part 2 was issued together with a new edition of part 1 in 1758.

Signatures: pi1 2pi1 A*-B*⁴ A⁴ a-f⁴ (-f4) B-3X⁴ *3Y⁴ 3Z-4A⁴ chi1 3Y² ²a-²e⁴ ²f² (2pi1 verso, 4A4 verso, chi1 verso, ²a1 verso, ²f² verso blank)

Page numbers 233-240 omitted, no text lacking.

Plate unnumbered.

Errata (p. [1], fourth count, verso of liii); p. 43, 10th count)

"Dissertatio in novam, tutam, ac utilem methodum inoculationis, seu transplantationis variolarum" has special title page and separate signatures and paging.

Chapter VIII (p. 427-538) includes accounts of medicinal plants growing in America.

Includes bibliographical references.

Blake, J.B.  A short title cat. of 18th cent. printed books in the NLM, 401.

Jefcoate & Kloth 2(1):274.

ESTC T149021.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.

John Carte Brown Library copy purchased form the Littauer Judaica Book Fund and partly also a gift from Mr. Erwin Strasmich of Providence, R.I.