Systematic Library of Writers on Natural History, Economics, and Related Arts and Sciences (1786) - Page 22

WRITERS ON MEDICAL MATERIA MEDICA original: "MEDICI S. MAT. MED. SCR." (Medici Super Materia Medica Scriptores)

CHRISTIAN RAMUS. Dissertation on the equal value of chemical and Galenic medicines. Galenic medicines refers to the traditional system of using plant-based ingredients according to the theories of the ancient physician Galen, often contrasted with the newer "Chemical" or mineral-based medicines of the 17th and 18th centuries. Copenhagen, 1711. Quarto.

JOHANN JACOB HEIDELIN. Dissertation on the superiority of simple medicines. Basel, 1704. Quarto.

BERNARDINO RAMAZZINI. Oration on why the simplicity of remedies is to be preferred over laborious composition. Found in his Orations on Medical Subjects. Padua, 1708. Octavo. Page 188. And in his Works, Geneva, 1717. Quarto edition, pages 86–97.

JUSTUS VESTI. Dissertation on the excellence of simple medicines over chemical ones. Respondent: Seyler. Erfurt, 1713. Quarto. 2 sheets.

JOHANN PHILIP EYSEL. Dissertation on why simple medicines are to be preferred over compound ones. Respondent: Mose. Erfurt, 1717. Quarto. 4 sheets.

WALTER HARRIS. On simple and compound medicines, where he speaks of the abundance of the materia medica, and shows that simple medicine first prevailed, and that Hippocrates favored this. In his Dissertations, Dissertation 14, page 230.

MICHAEL ALBERTI. Dissertation on the advantages of medical practice using simples over medicine using compounds. Respondent: Kirchhof. Halle, 1720. Quarto. 28 pages.

CHRISTIAN STEPHAN SCHEFFEL. Dissertation on Mictopharmacomania original: "Mictopharmacomania" — a term coined from Greek to describe a "madness for mixing drugs.", and on the greater certainty of medicine to be acquired from the use of simple medicines over compounds. Part I. Respondent: Gadebusch. Greifswald, 1735. Quarto. Part II. Respondent: Behrens, 1736. Part III. Respondent: Pylius, 1738. 11 1/2 sheets.

JOHANN ANDREAS SEGNER. Dissertation on the superiority of simple medicines over compound ones. Respondent: Varnhagen. Göttingen, 1752. Quarto. 4 sheets.
Reviewed in the Göttingen Learned Times, 1752, page 1021.