Therapeutique, ou, Matiere medicale : extraite des leçons de Mr Ferrein, professeur au College Royal de France

Alternate Title:

Therapeutique; Matiere medicale

Creator:

Ferrein, Antoine, 1693-1769 (creator)

Contributor:

Postel, Jacques (scribe)

Date:

1752

Description:

Notes from the lectures of Antoine Ferrein at the College Royal de France in Paris, written by Jacques Postel, a student from Caen. The lectures on materia medica, now known as pharmacology, concern various categories of drugs, including sedatives, purgatives, diuretics, expectorants, and emollients and other topical treatments.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Sold by Palinurus Antiquarian Books (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania), 2024.

Relation:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Subject:

Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); lecture notes; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

398 leaves : paper; 220 x 170 (180 x 125) mm bound to 225 x 180 mm.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Doctor and anatomist, professor of medicine at the Collège de France, elected to the Académie des sciences in 1742.; French.; Title from title page (p. vii).; Table of contents: 1. p.1-58: Preliminaire -- 2. p.58-319: Premiere partie: Des alterants -- 3. p.320-504: Seconde partie: Des evacuants -- 4. p.505-620: Troisieme partie: Des remedes specifiques -- 5. p.621-747: Quatrieme partie: Des remedes topiques -- 6. p. [749-758]: Table.; Collation: Paper, 398 leaves; 1² 2-6⁸ 7¹⁰ 8-12⁸ 13⁶ 14-28⁸ 29¹⁰ 30-50⁸ 51²; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners; [i-viii], 1-408, 408-411, 411-465, 456-747, [748-776]. Gatherings 49-51 are hypothetical, lacking catchwords and visible sewing.; Layout: Written in 38-40 long lines.; Script: Written in cursive script in the hand of Jacques Postel, a medical student from Caen (doctor medicus Cadomensis, title page, p. vii), with headings in larger semicursive script.; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) calf; gilt spine with title label Matiere Medicale; marbled pastedowns and endleaves, ribbon marker.; Origin: Written in Paris, 1752 (title page, p. vii).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2224

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund