La Falsification des Mèdicaments dèvoilèe Ouvrage ....

  • Early nineteenth century half binder's cloth and marbled boards.
  • La Haye / Brussels: Van Clef / de Bel, 1784
By van den Sande, J[ean] B[aptiste] [Augustin] - PHARMACEUTICAL ADULTERATION
La Haye / Brussels: Van Clef / de Bel, 1784. First Edition.. Early nineteenth century half binder's cloth and marbled boards.. Very good; some wear to the spine.. 8vo, [4], xxiv, [1] - 430, [13 - index & errata], [1 - blank], [8 - adverts.] pp. One leaf of the errata with a blank verso is misbound.

An examination of the means and methods of the falsification and adulteration of drugs. The first 270 pp. are given over to botanical medicine and how the resins, extracts, and distillates are falsified. The remainder of the text deals with various mineral sources and their chemical preparation. The author was a pharmacist. Hirsch V, pp. 6-7 (commenting that the book was among the first to touch on this subject and was still a useful reference); Blake, p. 400; absent from Waring and Schelenz.

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Title

La Falsification des Mèdicaments dèvoilèe Ouvrage ....

Author

van den Sande, J[ean] B[aptiste] [Augustin] - PHARMACEUTICAL ADULTERATION

Binding

Early nineteenth century half binder's cloth and marbled boards.

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Van Clef / de Bel: La Haye / Brussels

Date

1784

Edition

First Edition.


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