18th century Pharmaceutical SAMMELBAND

Frankfurt: vp. Various Editions.. Contemporary stiff vellum.. A very good copy with some overall spotting.. 8vo., Fontispiece to part I.

A thick volume of the Baroque physician's pharmaceutcial writings that contains : 1] Neu Vermehrte Heylsame Dreck Apothecke ...., 1734, 436 pp.; 2] Der Heilsamen Dreck Apothecke Anderer Theil ...., 1734, 274 pp.; 3] Flagellum Salutis, Das ist Curieuse Erzahlung ...., 1698, 158 + [4] pp.; 4] Curieuse, neue / seltene / leichte ... Haus Apothec / ...., 1706, 395 + [59] pp.. Paulini's work is the last in a long tradition of using excrement of all kinds as a cure for sickness. He presents a large collection of (truncated) prescriptions purportedly based on ancient sources (many would later be proven fraudulent). Paulini was physician to the Duke of Brunswick, correspondent of Leibniz, and member of prestigious German learned societies of the period. The first part was written by him, the second is based on his notes. He resurrected Wecker's work in the mid-17th century whose Antidotarium contained a chapter on the subject. Paulini, however, is the ultimate codification of this unusual subject area. See Blake; Krivatsy # 8687; Kremers, p. 79; Waring. (Inventory #: 9120)