Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 906

WILLIAM CULLEN (1710-1790) A treatise of the materia medica. Printed for Charles Elliot 1789 Vol. I: xxiii, 432 pp.; Vol. II: [4] 610 pp. Copy 1: 26.8 cm. Cloth; Copy 2: 26.6 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 901

The present work resulted from a series of lectures (see No. 904) Cullen gave at Edinburgh. According to the author, "The Lectures on the Materia Medica formerly published in my name, though very incorrect, were so well received by the public, that notwithstanding my endeavours to prevent it, they have been several times reprinted, and even translated into foreign languages" (Preface). At first, Cullen considered revising his Lectures but concluded that it would be best to prepare an entirely new work and this treatise was the result. It, too, enjoyed great success and remained in print until the early nineteenth century.

See Related Record(s): 904

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1838; Wellcome II, p. 413

Copy 2: Gift of John Martin, M.D