Medela medicinae. A plea for the free profession, and a renovation of the art of physick
Subtitle: out of the noblest and most authentick writers : shewing the publick advantage of its liberty : the disadvantage that comes to the publick by any sort of physicians, imposing upon the studies and practise of others : the alteration of diseases from their old state and condition : the causes of that alteration : the insufficiency and uselesness of meer scholastick methods and medicines, with a necessity of new : tending to the rescue of mankind from the tyranny of diseases and of physicians themselves, from the pedantism of old authors and present dictators
By: The author, M. N. Med. Londinens
Contributors: Lowndes, Richard, active 1639-1675, publisher
Publisher: Printed for Richard Lownds at the White-Lion in S. Pauls Church-yard, neer the Little North-door
Published: 1665
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Controversial literature; Early works to 1800; Medicine; Vocational guidance; Royal College of Physicians of London
Other titles: Plea for the free profession and a renovation of the art of physick
Notes: M.N. = Marchamont Nedham.

"An attack on the college of physicians and its methods." Cf. DNB.

Includes printed marginal notes; errata note on p. [24]

The words "The publick advantage .. with a necessity of new" are bracketed together on the title page.

With a preliminary imprimatur leaf.

Plea for the free profession and a renovation of the art of physick.

Signatures: A8 [a]4 B-N8 n4 O-Z8 Aa-Kk8 Ll2.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R19741

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), N397

In English with Greek references.