The garden of health : an account of two herbals, the Gart der Gesundheit and the Hortus sanitatis

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  The garden of health : an account of two herbals the Gart der Gesundheit and the Hortus sanitatis

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  The text is divided into three parts: Part I (pages 1-36) has five chapters on the methods of diagnosis and treatment; Part II (pages 37-158), titled "Fabrica receptorum", explains how to make specific medicines; and Part III (pages 159-1490), titled "Selectus materiae medicae experimentalis" includes an extensive collection of recipes and decriptions of ailments organized alphabetically. Text includes a foreward in which Steigendesch gives a summary of the history of medicine and the relationship his family had with medicine. On pages 1491-1557 is included a list of all the medications described in this treatise, mostly drawn from the Pharmacopoea Wirtenbergica and dated 1785 in a chronogram. Also includes a [36] page index at end.

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