1693 1ed Seplasium Wm Salmon MEDICINE Beer Tobacco Gunpowder Witchcraft Unicorns

1693 1^ed Seplasium Wm Salmon MEDICINE Beer Tobacco Gunpowder Witchcraft Unicorns

“The Baboon is an evil natured beast, and will imitate all human actions, they delight much to wear garments, are lustful as goats, and will attempt to lye with all sorts of women!”

– William Salmon, Seplasium

A very rare and important 17^th-century book on medicine, pharmacology, minerology, zoology, and botany by William Salmon. Salmon, the self-proclaimed “Professor of Physick” as known for his plethora of medical texts, mostly pertaining to the use of classical medical techniques.

Salmon deviates from his norm in this work by exploring other natural sciences. While most of his writing comes from a medical understanding, he ventures into topics such as:

• Making of white lead, brass, and silver
• Making of beer and ale
• Extracting phosphorus out of urine
• Making gunpowder
• Sugar refining
• Sources of diseases; particularly rare gemstones and tobacco
• Animal behaviors
• Cryptozoology: Unicorns, satyrs and lycopanthers

However, because of his focus on medicine he does present an article on animals and plants and their medical properties and healing salves. According to Alden, this book is a good reference for West Indian plants and medicines.

Item number: #960

Price: $1500

Other subjects include:

• Remedies for balding / hair loss
• STDs (elephantitus, gonorrhea, syphilis)
• opium
  • He recommends opium as an Rx for “Madness”
  • He prescribes it to “women with child”
• Witchcraft
• Moss of Man’s Skull
  • Using mold/moss that grows on the bones of dead bodies as ingredients for various Rx’s & remedies
• Cannabis

SALMON, William

Seplasium : the compleat English physician, or, the druggist’s shop opened : explicating all the particulars of which medicines at this day are composed and made, shewing their various names and natures .. in x books

London : Printed for Matthew Gilliflower … and George Sawbridge …, 1693. First edition.

Details:

• Collation complete with all pages: [69], 1207
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Language: English
• References: Wing S452; Duveen 528; ESTC R37144; Alden 693
  • Duveen: “an interesting compilation by the well-known quack”
• Size: ~7in X 4.5in (18cm x 23cm)

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