A popular English dispensatory, which ran to twelve editions by 1749, containing a complete account of the materia medica and therapeutics.

Quincy (d.1722) was awarded a medical degree by the University of Edinburgh for his Medicina statica Britannica published in 1712, but his main skill was an apothecary. The present work is divided into four parts, containing a description of the chemical pharmaceutical process, the preparation of medical cures from vegetable, animal and mineral sources, and sections on 'Officinal Compositions' and 'Extemporaneous Compositions'

Treatments range from the preparation of essential oils, to diet drinks, strengtheners, and narcotics, as well as plants and animal ingredients like 'Lettice' which 'cools the Urine, and upon that account does service in Gonorrhea's' (p.225).

With early manuscript ownership inscriptions, and an interesting note on the common cold to the rear free endpaper: 'Taking of cold, or catching of cold, is when cold air so affects the body, as to cause a diminution of transpiration, and a weakness [of] concotion. Pag. 589'.

Eighth edition; 8vo (20 x 13 cm); ads. to front, erased ownership inscription in pen to title, and B1 recto, inscriptions in pen to rear blank f.; modern blind ruled tan calf, spine lettered in gilt, fore-edge margins of text block a little frayed and stained, old worming to fore-edge margin of index; xvi, 674, [61], [final blank]pp.

ESTC T61361.