John Schroeder, The Complete Chemical Dispensatory (1669)

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Date
1669
Author
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Book title
The Compleat Chymical Dispensatory In Five Books: Treating of All sorts of Metals, Precious Stones and Minerals, of all Vegetables and Animals, and things that are taken from them, as Musk, Civet, &c. How rightly to know them, and how they are to be used in Physick; with their several Doses
Publication place
London
Printer
John Darby
Publisher
Richard Clavell
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • chemistry
  • medicine
Summary
Five books, the first an introduction, and the remainder on the shop (recipes and prescriptions), minerals (concoctions), plants, and animals. The first two chapters explain names for medicinal things.
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Lacryma, is a humour flowing from Plants, whither it turn to Oyl, Rosin, or Gum: coming forth alone, or be forced out. (p. 2)
Alston
XVII.I.286
Wing
S898
Other editions
Latin editions printed in Germany and Holland in 1672, 1677, 1684, 1685, and 1687 (not listed in Wing) also have some English words (Alston XVII.I.302-06).