Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 712

JOHN QUINCY (d. 1722) Pharmacopoeia officinalis & extemporanea; or, A compleat English dispensatory, in four parts. A. Bell 1718 xv, 618 pp. 19.1 cm.

Quincy was an English apothecary and physician whose works had considerable influence on the practice of medicine and materia medica of his day. His medical writings included a translation and commentary of Santorio's Medicina statica (see No. 399), a popular medical dictionary, an account of the London plague of 1665 (see No. 578), and a series of medical essays. His Dispensatory had an exceptionally long and distinguished history and was the forerunner of Lewis' Dispensatory (see No. 925) and the British pharmacopoeia. The present work is the first edition of his Dispensatory which remained in print until 1782, reaching the fifteenth edition.

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