Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeōs, The vanity of the craft of physick, or, A new dispensatory wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c., and the particular medicines of the shops : with an humble motion for the reformation of the universities and the whole landscap [sic] of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie : to the Parliament of England / by Noah Biggs ...

Title

Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeōs, The vanity of the craft of physick, or, A new dispensatory wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c., and the particular medicines of the shops : with an humble motion for the reformation of the universities and the whole landscap [sic] of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie : to the Parliament of England / by Noah Biggs ...

Author

Biggs, Noah.

Publication

London :: Printed for Edward Blackmore ...,

1651.

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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To the PARLIAMENT.
• argument
• encomia
  • To his honoured Friend, The Learned AƲTHOR.
  • To his honour'd and well-accomplish'd friend, on his Mataeotechniatria, vulgaris.
  • To his ingenious Friend, N. B. On his MATAIOTEXNIA.
• The SUMMARY.
• The PRINTER to the Reader.
• ERRATA.
• Mataeotechnia Medicinae. THE Vanity of the craft of Physick: OR A NEW DISPENSATORY, Discovering the errors and weaknesse of the Grand universal remedies of the Schools; as Blouding, Purging, Issues, Dyet, &c. And the particular Medi∣cines of the Shops.