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On the characteristics of and trade in Cinchona bark

VRIJDAG ZIJNEN, Theodoor Daniel. De in den handel voorkomende kina-basten, pharmacologisch behandeld en toegepast op de soorten welke in de Pharmacopoea Belgica vermeld zijn.
Rotterdam, P.H. van den Heuvell (back of half-title: The Hague, A.D. Schinkel), 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XII, 120 pp. Full description
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Rare 17th-century description of dracunculiasis, the parasitic infection by the Guinea worm

WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus. Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis veterum. Specimen exhibens novae versionis ex Arabico, cum commentario uberiori. Cui accedit altera, de vermiculis capillaribus infantium.
Augsburg, Theophil Goebel, 1674. 4to (15.5 x 20.8 cm). With the title page printed in red and black, an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait, and 13 engraved plates. 18th-century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with the author and title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. [54], 456, [120] pp. Full description
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First edition printed outside Oxford University, with 6 illustration plates and a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe. One of the great books of 17th-century English medicine

WILLIS, Thomas. Pharmaceutice rationalis sive diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore.
The Hague, Arnold Leers, 1674. 12mo. With an engraved emblematic frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, dated 1674, and 6 folding engraved plates of human stomach and intestines. Contemporary(?) vellum, with a red morocco spine label, red sprinkled edges. [40], 330, [9], [5 blank] pp. Full description
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