The Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: with some notes on the manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice.

ROYAL COLLEGE of PHYSICIANS of LONDON and John QUINCY (editor).

Edité par W. Bowyer for R. Knaplock, B. Took and others,, London,, 1721

First edition of the translation and revision by John Quincy of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians. A second edition appeared in 1727, a third in 1747.John Quincy (d. 1722) was an English apothecary. He wrote, edited, or translated 11 works, the most famous of which were his Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea or A Compleat English Dispensatory, first published in 1718, and his medical dictionary Lexicon Physico-medicum of 1719. Quincy's Compleat English Dispensatory went through 12 editions before being extensively revised in 1749 by William Lewis, who had translated in English the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia the year before. Lewis The New Dispensatory … Intended as a Correction and Improvement of Quincy was in its turn improved upon, to become The Edinburgh New Dispensatory of 1786 and later The London Dispensatory of 1811. Quincy's writings reflect his support of contemporary iatrophysical theories based on the mechanics and scientific experiments of his day to promote the good health of humanity. He rejected the Galenic notion of spirits residing in the body and was vehemently against any form of medical quackery or empiricism.With a small manuscript annotation on the recto of the first flyleaf ("L/u (or 11?)". The binding is slightly rubbed, slightly browned throughout, with a small ink stain on the fore edge of pp. 272-293.l ESTC T61388; Howard-Jones, John Quincy, M.D. [d.1722], Apothecary and Iatrophysical Writer: A Study of his Works, Including his Commentary on Santorio, his Compleat English Dispensatory, and his Lexicon Physico-medicum , in: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 6/2 (1951), pp. 149-175. Contemporary blind-tooled "Cambridge panel" binding in brown calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges. With an engraved frontispiece of the building of the Dispensatory of the Royal Society in London, a woodcut vignette on the title page, head- and tailpieces and initials. Pages: [18], 362, [16] pp. N° de réf. du vendeur ABC_45508

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Dispensatory of the Royal College of ...
Éditeur : W. Bowyer for R. Knaplock, B. Took and others,, London,
Date d'édition : 1721