Philbert Guibert [Guybert] - Le Prix et Valeur des Medicaments - 1632

Philbert Guibert [Guybert]

Le Prix et Valeur des Medicaments tant simples que composez, desquels on se sert é la medecine Derniere edition

Paris: Jean Jost, 1632. Revised edition.

A catalogue of medicines by Guibert, produced as part of his work "Œuvres charitables".

Pages 130–216 with its own title page, it was removed from a collected Œuvres charitables (Paris, Jost, 1632), in which each part had its own title. Complete in itself.

After a brief introduction, the work is essentially a list of medicines with a little text about each one. First gather is detached, the rest of the text block holding together. Held in a green paper cover. The pages are slightly darkened, but clean.

140 x 80 mm (5½ x 3¼ inches).

This was a published list of what remedies should cost written by a Paris doctor so that patients and their families would know when an apothecary was overcharging them

The Œuvres charitables were reprinted at least sixty times between 1623 and 1679,

They were translated into English as The Charitable Physitian (1639) and used by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in their care for the sick poor.

This section: Le Prix et valeur des médicaments first appeared in 1625.