Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1032.5

SIR JOHN PRESTWICH (d. 1795) Dissertation on mineral, animal, & vegetable poisons : containing a description of poisons in general, their manner of action, effects on the human body, and respective antidotes : with experiments and remarks on noxious exhalations from earth, air and water : together with several extraordinary cases and elegant engravings of the principal poisons of the different countries. Printed for F. Newberry… 1775 [4], iv, 331, [1] p., 11 leaves of plates : ill. 21 cm.

A dissertation on poisons and their antidotes. Prestwich also published Prestwich’s Respublica. At the time of his death he had two incomplete, unpublished works on the history of South Wales and Liverpool.

Cited references: Wellcome IV, p. 432