WRITERS ON MEDICINES

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MICHAEL ETTMÜLLER. Academic program on the necessary investigation of simple remedies. Simples are medicines made from a single natural ingredient, usually a plant, rather than a complex mixture. Leipzig, 1682. Quarto. 1 sheet.

LANGE. On the necessity of simples and the erroneous way of identifying them, found in his Letters, Letter 73, page 329.

ROBERT BOYLE. Hydrostatic Medicine, or hydrostatics applied to the materia medica. London, published by S. Smith, 1690. Octavo. 18 sheets.
— Also found in his Works, edited by P. Shaw, Volume II, page 314.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Previous hydrostatic way of estimating ores. This is an appendix to the former work.
Reviewed in: Philosophical Transactions, no. 192, page 488; Acta Eruditorum, 1690, page 486; and 1691, page 511. From these, Manget included it in his Bibliotheca, Volume I, Part I, page 451.
In both works, he primarily teaches the method by which, through hydrostatic Hydrostatics involves measuring the density and gravity of fluids and solids to determine their purity. examinations, natural substances should be judged as genuine, or conversely, as adulterated and counterfeit.

ADOLPH GOTTLIEB RICHTER. Treatise on identifying the corruptions of medicines. Dresden and Leipzig, published by Henkel, 1732. Octavo. 6 sheets.
Reviewed in: Acta Eruditorum Supplement, Volume 10, page 59.
— Geneva original: "Colon. Allobr." (Colonia Allobrogum), 1762. Octavo.

PAUL AMMAN. Academic program on the necessity of personal observation in the knowledge of medicines, illustrated by the examples of Chocolate, Coffee, and Cacao. original: "de autopsia in medicamentorum cognitione necessaria." Here, "autopsia" refers to the act of seeing or examining the plants for oneself rather than relying on books. Leipzig, 1675. Quarto. 1 sheet.

FRIEDRICH SCHRADER. Dissertation on the necessity of both Galenic and chemical medicines. Galenic medicines are traditional herbal preparations based on the theories of Galen, while Chemical medicines (or iatrochemistry) used mineral and laboratory-distilled substances. Respondent: Quentin. Helmstedt, 1691. Quarto. 3 sheets.

JOHANN BOHN. Dissertation on the doubtful superiority of chemical and Galenic medicines. Respondent: Philippi. Leipzig, 1706. Quarto. 7 1/2 sheets.