Lemery (nicolas) - Universal Pharmacopoeia. Printed In 1763.

LEMERY (Nicolas) - Universal pharmacopoeia, containing all the pharmacy compositions which are in use in medicine, both in France and throughout Europe; their virtues, their doses, the simplest & best ways of operating: with a pharmaceutical lexicon, several remarks, and reasoning on each operation. Paris, Desaint & Saillant, Herissant, Nyon, Savoye, D'Houry and Didot, 1763; in-4, epistle + table + 1285 pp. + approval, period full speckled calfskin binding, spine decorated with poppy flowers with five nerves, edges painted red. The 2 volumes. The author is part of the Royal Academy of Sciences, he is a doctor of medicine. Born in Rouen in 1645, he died in Paris in 1715. Renowned apothecary, he is also an eminent chemist. He is a Protestant and his life is interspersed with problems due to his faith. In 1686 he abjures Protestantism with wife and children, convinced that stubbornness would lead him to ruin.