Archidoxa ex Theophrastia : Pars I

Quarto size, Medical Materials original: "4° Mat med 163." — Quarto refers to the physical size of the book, while Materia Medica is the Latin term for the study of the origin and properties of medicinal substances. 163.

Paracelsus The Swiss physician, alchemist, and philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493–1541), who pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine.