An account of pharmacological ingredients in three parts, the second on botanical sources by the great Swedish botanist Linnaeus, and those on mineral and animal sources, here in their first editions, by Ludivico Tessari, a famous physician and pharmaceutical chemist, active in Venice in the third quarter of the 18th century. Part 1 covers the "regnum minerale" (divided into 6 classes: terris medicinalibus, lapidibus medicinalibus, salibus fossilibus, metallis & semimetallis, arsenico & sulphure and bituminibus) and part 3 the "regnum animale" (divided in 6 classes: quadrupedia, amphibia, pisces, testacei, aves and insecta) as sources of materials and elements for medicines. For part 2, on the "regnum vegetabile" as a source, Tessari reprints a text by Linnaeus, first published in his Materi medica in Stockholm in 1749.
Spine worn, otherwise in good condition. ICCU, PUVE010973; cf. Blake, p. 447; De Renzi, Storia della medicina in Italia, V, p. 149.