GRIMM, Herman Nicolas.

Compendium Medico-Chymicum, seu Accurata medendi Methodus, quae excellentissimis Medicamentis, tam Europae, quam Indiae Orientali proficuis, repleta, rariores Observationes, & curiosam optimorum Medicamentorum, in libelli hujus formulis contentorum, praeparationem exhibet, auctior & emendatior.

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Finely engraved frontis. 7 p.l. (incl. frontis.), 475, [11] pp. 8vo, cont. vellum over boards. Augsburg: T. Göbel, 1684. [bound with]:HUENERWOLF, Jakob Augustin. Anatomia Paeoniae, in qua Natales et Qualitates Paeoniae, itemque Praeparationes et Medicamenta ex ea varia cum Virtutibus et Usu ad plurimos Humani Corporis affectus exhibentur. 1 p.l., 110, [8] pp. 8vo. Arnstadt: H. Meurer, 1680. Two very interesting chemical/medical/pharmacological works. According to OCLC, no copy of the Grimm is found in American libraries. I. Second edition, enlarged. The first edition was printed in Batavia and is of the greatest rarity. Grim(m) (1641-1711), the son of the physician to the Kings of Sweden, took his medical degree and then spent eight years in various parts of Sumatra as a physician. Upon returning to Sweden, he assumed his father’s medical appointment. He wrote a number of books on chemistry, mineralogy, and pharmacology. The present work is the result of his long stay in the East Indies. It is a collection of pharmacological recipes based on minerals and herbs found in the East Indies and in Europe. Hirsch describes Grimm’s contributions to the knowledge of pharmacology as very “considerable.” The Pharmacopoeia Indica appears on pages 387-475. II. First edition of this work on the medical uses of the peony plant. Extracts from the peony root have long been used in China, Japan, and the West to treat convulsions. Huenerwolf also describes how the peony can be used to enhance mental and liver function, inhibit blood clotting, and improve fertility in women. He provides a series of pharmacological recipes. Huenerwolf (1644-85), was city physician of Arnstadt. Fine copies from the Solms ducal library at Lich. ❧ I. Ferchl, pp. 200-01. Hirsch, II, p. 855. II. Ferchl, p. 251. Hirsch, III, p. 325. Pritzel 4315. Waring, p. 605.

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