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[PITT, ROBERT.] The Craft & Frauds of Physick Expos'd . . . With Instructions to Prevent being Cheated and Destroy'd by the Prevailing Practice. [24], 203, [9] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, top of spine chipped, covers detached; contents browned, old bookseller's catalogue cuttings mounted on rear pastedown. 18th-century armorial bookplate of W. Wynne. London: Tim. Childe, 1703
Second edition of a work first published the year before. "In his review of contemporary therapy he favoured indigenous drugs over the 'rarer Productions of both the Indies' and condemned a number of items in the pharmacopoeia, including precious metals, precious stones, Bezoar stone, mummy, viper flesh, and some other drugs of animal origin" (ODNB).
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