JÜNGKEN, Johann Helfrich.
Lexicon pharmaceuticum pro majori commoditate in duas partes divisum ubi prior haec continet magis ubique usualia notissimorum pharmacopoerum, utpote Augustanae Renovatae, Norimbergensis, Schröderi, Minsichti, &c. ut & alia hinc inde multum celebrata celeberrimorum authorum, Sylvii, Michaelis, Timaei, Wedelii aliorumque composita; pars altera, similia generosiora juxta Zvvelfferi, Hoffmanni, &c. animadversiones aut censuras adornata tradit composita, iis priori in parte positis, pro majori dilucidatione brevissimis surrogata studio.
Franfurt am Main, Johann Zieger (printed by: Johann Philipp Andreae, [Nuremberg]), 1694. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [10], 328, 76 pp.
€ 5,000
First edition of a very popular compendium of apothecary's recipes. Instead of being an official pharmacopeia, listing the recipes that were prescribed by the authorities in a region, it is a compilation of recipes taken from various sources, specifically noting on the title-page the French "Arch-Galenist" Jacques Dubois (1478-1555), also known as Jacobus Sylvius, teacher of Vesalius. "In his pharmacological texts Dubois often states emphatically that Galen is the only reliable author on the topic. No doctor ignorant of Galen has any idea of medical practice, wrote Dubois in ... his Methodus medicamenta componendi ... Anything praiseworthy in this book, continued Dubois, should be attributed to Galen, and anything Imperfect to Dubois, the author" (Wear et al.).
With the remains of a label on the back of the spine and on the first front endpaper. Browned and with several waterstains throughout; a fine copy. Brüning 2752; VD17 3:005991U; cf. A. Wear et al., The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century (1985), p. 146.
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