A compleat history of drugs
Subtitle: to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Mess. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral, with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts....
By: written in French by Monsieur Pomet... :
Contributors: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de.; Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, R. Wilkin... [et al]
Published: 1737
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.; Drugs.; Botany, Medical.; Zoology, Medical.
Work titles: Histoire générale des drogues.
Notes: "A catalogue of seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands": p. (21)-(24).

Plate 13 bound out of order, after 14.

Includes index.

Pagination is continiuous throughout.

Title in red and black; end pieces.

Translation, withomissions, of the author's Histoire générale des drogues. The anonymous translator and editor has drawn upon the works of Tournefort and Lémery, and has added to Pomet's descriptions and history of each drug that of Lémery, as extracted from his Traité universel des drogues simples. cf. Dedication and pref.