| Description Of Item | Volume of William Salmon’s Iatrica: seu Praxis medendi, volume 1 (1681, reissued 1684). Printed in London. Medical text in English, presenting in several volumes ‘the practice of curing diseases’ with the ‘medicinal history of many famous observations in the cure of diseases’.
It contains about eighty handwritten notes and quotations from various other books. Subjects are varied, encompassing medicine and medical recipes, but also English history and geography, law and justice, art history and hagiography. The other books identified are: R. B., Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland (1682); Richard Brathwaite, History surveyed in a brief epitomy (1651); William Salmon, Polygraphice (1673); Franciscus Junius, The painting of the ancients (1638); Richard Johnson, The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom (1597); William Greenwood, Bouleutērion, or A practical demonstration of county judicatures (1659).
There is only one handwriting throughout, which seems to be from late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
Its provenance is unknown. There are no traces of ownership, signatures, names, or dates within the book. This volume was printed in 1684 by Thomas Dawks II, the Younger, in Thames Street in London, and probably first sold there. |