The eight edition (Blake, p. 163) of the very popular Latin Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, first published at London in 1702 and in the Netherlands from 1709, when the Wetsteins published the first Amsterdam edition. It contains remedies for numerous ailments, from recipes for Antimonial ale and Stomach wine to various pills and powders.
The translation of the Pharmacopoeia extemporanea caused quite a stir by giving away medical recipes previously guarded jealously by doctors. It was subsequently translated into French and German and published in Venice, Lausanne, Louvain, Amsterdam, and Paris. Our Wetstein edition is, following the title-page, the eighth edition. The Wetstein firm published all Amsterdam editions before 1761.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) was an English physician and author. He was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians in London in 1679. He settled in Sevenoaks (Kent) where he was a much beloved practitioner for the remainder of his life. His publishing career began with an appendix to the third edition of the Pharmacopoeia Bateana (1700) and he later published his own edition (1718). His very popular Pharmacopoeia extemporanea (1702) and Pharmacopoeia domestica (1723) based on his own collections of recipes, went through multiple editions both in England and abroad. He published his most important work, Exanthematologia, on smallpox, in 1729.
Head of spine damaged, front hinge cracked, corners bumped, otherwise in good condition. Blake, p. 163; Wellcome II, p. 75.