Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, The London Dispensatory

CULPEPER, Nich. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, The London Dispensatory Further Adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows now Living, of the Said College. Boston: Printed for John Allen, for Nicholas Booone [sic], Daniel Henchman, and John Edwards, 1720. 1st American ed. 8vo. [24], 305,[35] pp. Rare in the trade. Only four copies can be traced as offered in the last 50 years. The first herbal printed in North America as well as the first full-length medical book printed in North America. The earliest known medical work printed in North America is Thomas Thatcher's A Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New-England.in the Small Pocks or Measles, a 1678 Boston broadside known in one copy. The next work is a 1708 Boston printing of Culpeper's The English physician, a 94-page pamphlet. The London Dispensatory 'enjoyed a wide popularity in the colonies, perhaps because of its Puritan slant and its bias toward the household treatment of illness' (Norman).