A complete history of drugs /

written in French by monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV. To which is added what is farther observable on the same subject, from mess ; lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal, and mineral ; with their use in physic, chemistry, pharmacy, and several other arts ; illustrated with above four hundred copper-cuts ... A work of very great use and curiosity ; done into English from the originals.
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Main Creator: Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699.
Contributors: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.
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Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published / Created: London : Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, W. Parker, C. Hitch, and E. Wicksteed, 1748.
Edition:The fourth ed., carefully corrected, with large additions /
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Notes:Title in red and black; plates engraved throughout.

Based upon the author's Histoire générale des drogues.

"Pomet's general history of drugs": 202 p. at end.

"An account of the names of authors cited in this work": p. xiv-xx.

Physical description: xx, 220, 202, [10] p. : ill ; 25 cm. (4to)

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