HECKER, August Friederich.
Anleitung zum zweckmäßigen Gebrauche der einfachen und zusammengesetzten Arzneimittel, welche in der Pharmacopoea castrensis Borussica enthalten sind. Eine Beilage zu dem medicinisch-praktischen Taschenbuche für Feldärzte und Wundärzte deutscher Armeen.
Berlin, Friedrich Maurer, 1806. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9.5 cm). With a wood-engraved medallion on title-page, depicting both sides, one including a portrait of J. Goercke. Contemporary marbled boards. XVI, 264 pp.
€ 750
First edition of a handbook to the simple and compound medicines contained in the Pharmacopoea Castrensis Borussica (the Prussian pharmacopoeia). The work was compiled by the German doctor August Friedrich Hecker (1763-1811) and was intended for the use of field doctors and surgeons of the German army. The text opens with a brief introduction on the use and effects of the medicines, followed by 280 medicines, arranged alphabetically, with comments on their medicinal properties and uses.
With some inscriptions in ink on the title-pag and some notes on the last flyleaf. Some faint water stains. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Overall in very good condition. Hirsch III, pp. 100-101; not in Wellcome.
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