DALE, SAMUEL.

Pharmacologia seu Manuductio ad Materiam Medicam: In qua Medicamenta Officinalia Simplicia, Hoc est Mineralia, vegetabilia, Animalia eorumque partes in Medicina Officinis usita...Cum Notis generum Characteristicis...Opus medicis, Philosophis, Pharmacopoeis, Chirurgis, &c utilissimum. Iterata Editio, emendata & aucta. (&) Pharmacologiae, seu Manuductionis ad Materiam Officinalia Simplicia priore Libro omissa, complectens...Cum duplici Indice. (2 vols.).

London, Benj. Walford (and) Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford, 1710 and 1705. Small 8vo. Bound in 2 uniform cont. full calf. Spine ends neathly repaired, a nick to one compartment repaired. Corners repaired. Backs a little rubbed. (2),652 pp. and (12),389,(66) pp. A few brownspots, but clean and fine, both volumes printed on good paper.

A complete set of Dale's "corpus" with the supplement-volume in first edition and the main work in second enlarged edition.
"Dale's chief work was the "Pharmacologia" which first appeared in 1693, a supplement being published in 1705, a second edition in 1710...and others after the author's death. It is the first systematic work of importence on the subject." (DNB). - BMC (NH) I: p. 415 (not having the second edition, but the first and later editions) - Wellcome II: pp. 426-27 (not having the second edition and only having the second edition of the supplementvolume).

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