Enchiridion medicum oft medicyn boexken waer in verhandelt worden veel sieekten [!] die daghelyckx voorvallen, daer by de remedien om die te genesen ...Including:[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Eenige remedien die aengaen de chirurgie ofte uytwendige gebreken des lichaems.[CAPUEEL, Engelbert]. Clarius et majus lumen pharmacopaeorum. Dat is claerder en meerder licht der apothekers...Antwerp, Jean Francois Lucas, 1724. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a general title-page, part 2 with a half-title and part 3 with it's own title-page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[16], 75, [5], 31, [1], 86, [2] pp.Very rare revised and enlarged second edition of a medical compendium by the Belgian pharmacist Capueel Engelbert (1642-1733). It contains a collection of medicines and remedies for common diseases and ailments, based on different sources as well as the author's own experience. Therefore, according to the author, the book contains many new remedies. The first part deals with internal diseases, including fevers, dysentery, yellow fever, fainting, epilepsy, nose bleeds, lyse and worms. Capueel stands in the Galenic tradition of humorism, with bile from the pancreas as the main reason for fevers. The second part treats external diseases, including ailments to the eyes, teeth and skin (such as burns, mange and wounds). The third part is a pharmacopeia, describing different distillates, syrups and the use of salt when treating an illness. Capueel claims to have read all the pharmacopoeias, including the ones from London and Augsburg, and aims with his pharmacopoeia to correct their errors. This book was first published in Antwerp in 1723 by the same printer and 6 more editions, including the present one, were published up to 1757, all of which are rare.Binding chafed and cracked at hinges. Otherwise a very good copy, with only a few small spots.l STCV (1 copy); Worldcat (5 copies); cf. Blake, p. 77 (3rd ed.); BMN I, p. 8 (4th, 6th and 7th? eds.); Wellcome II, p. 298 (1st ed.).