The London practice of physick: or the whole practical part of physick contained in the works of the learned Dr. Willis, faithfully Englished. The second edition. To which is added a treatise of the plague, its nature and cure: also several reciepts [sic] to prevent any contagious distemper in city, camp, or fleet, and for curing such as are infected with it

People / Organizations

• Thomas Willis (Author)

Imprint

London : printed and are to be sold by Richard Wellington, at the sign of the Lute, and Edward Castle, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1695.

Added name

White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.

Publication year

1695

ESTC No.

R186614

Grub Street ID

75209

Description

[10], 680, [30], 74, 7, [1] p., [1] leaf of plate : port. ; 8°.

Note

Synopsis of five treatises contained in Willis's "Practice of physick": Pharmaceutice rationalis, Of convulsive diseases, Of the scurvy, Of the diseases of the brain and the genus nervosum, and Of fevers

With frontis. portrait (plate) of the author signed: R.W. Sculp

At foot of title page: Price bound seven shillings. Where are likewise to be had his works in one volume in folio

Signatures: pi1 A-T]4; ]2pi]2] 2pi1 ]2a]4] ]2B-E]8] F]6(-F6); ]3A]4

Includes a reissue of Wing W2853: A plain and easie method for preserving ... those that are well from the infection of the plague ... by Tho. Willis ...1691"

"A poem upon a laurel-leaf." has separate dated title page, pagination, and register

With imprimatur on leaf ]22pi1v: Libellum hunc de peste, dignum judicarnus, qui imprimatur. Gualt. Charleton, ... Tho. Burwel. J. Gordon. Wil. Dawes. Tho. Gill. Censores. Dat. Sepemb [sic]. 5. 1690. In comitiis censoriis ex Edibus Collegii nostri

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