Gend, Bernard Poelman, (1789) 176, [viii] pp. Small 8vo (12 x 18,5 cm.). Modern half brown chagrin (shagreen) with raised bands, gilt lettered on spine (antique style).
Reference : 1655
Very rare Dutch translation, only one other copy recorded. The author is best known as the founder of scientific paediatry and his interest in infant nutrition. The present travel & household dispensatory was one of the best of the period and especially written to prevent the laymen from malicious medicines and quackers. The translator, P.E. Wauters, took the opportunity with the publication of this Dutch translation to put a notorious local quacker out of business: ... "dachtte ik het de moeyte weird te zyn, het zelve ook ik het Nederduydsch te laeten drukken; te meer, om dat het inhoud eene voldoende wederlegginge der verderffelyke Leeringe van den Eerw. Heer FLORISOONE over de Geneesmiddelen tegen de Vallingen, Geraektheden, Lamheden, enz. welke by vele onkundige Luyden reeds, zoo ik bevonden hebbe, sterk ingeboezemd is. Om deze te krachtiger uyt te roeyen ik'er eenige Aenmerkingen bygevoegt..."(translator's preface). Pierre Engelbert Wauters (1745-1840) was one of the most remarkable figures in the hi
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