"Pharmacopoeia Mediana celeberrimi auctoris monitis et praeceptis medicis adaptata", pt. 2, p. [8], 37, [3], 3rd through 5th counts, has separately dated title page with imprint: Francof. et Lipsiae. In officina Fleischeriana. M DCC LXII. This work is excerpted and printed in English under thte title: Pharmacopoeia Meadiana faithfully gathered from original prescriptions, containing the most elegant methods of cure in diseases, and printed in London in 1756 and was the work of Richard Mead.

The first part includes references to guaiac, aloe, and other plant based medicines from the New World.

Signatures: p̓i⁶ (-pi6) (pi1 verso blank) A-H⁸ I⁴ (-I4); )(⁴ ()(1 verso blank) a-b⁸ c⁴

Includes indexes on p. 120-134, 2nd count, and p. [1-3], 5th count.

Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

The double engraved frontispiece is a view of the courtyard of the college buildings designed by Robert Hooke, with the anatomy theater.

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, p. 349.

Purchase; 2016; 17-061.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis, the second edition / Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, printed in Bremen and Leipzig, 1761.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Bibliothek des Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium: book stamp on title page.