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PART I.

SECTION VII.

PHYSICIANS AND WRITERS ON MATERIA MEDICA original: "MEDICI S. MAT. MED. SCR." Short for "Medici sive Materiae Medicae Scriptores." Materia Medica is the historical term for the study of the therapeutic properties of natural substances used in medicine, the precursor to modern pharmacology.

SECTION VII.

WRITERS

ON

MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES. original: "ARZNEYMITTELN."

ERNEST GOTTFRIED BALDINGER’S Catalog of Dissertations which present the history, outcomes, and powers of medicines. original: "Catalogus Dissertationum quae medicamentorum historiam, fata et vires proponunt." Altenburg. Richter 1768. Quarto. 16 sheets.
reviewed in: General German Library original: "Allg. d. Bibl." (Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek), a major literary review journal of the German Enlightenment. Supplement to volumes 1–12, page 625.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR: Medical-economic-cameralistic treatise on the price list of medicinal goods, Cameralism was a German school of administrative science and economic policy focused on state management; here it refers to the regulation of medicine prices for the public good. in his New Magazine, Volume 4, page 515.
JOHANN HIERONYMUS KNIPHOF’S Program on the useful and the pleasant in materia medica. original: "Progr. de utili et iucundo in materia medica." Erfurt 1753. Quarto. 1 sheet.