DIGBY, guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie, 1681
DIGBY, Kenelm (Chevalier).
Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée [...] touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie.
Paris, Charles Osmont, 1681.
12mo (148x85 mm), 248-(2) pages. binding : Contemporary full calf. Gilt spine in six compartments. Caps and corners worn. A corner cropped p.49.
New edition containing in a second part the Dissertation on the powder of sympathy, translated in french from the Latin of Mr. Papin
Kenelm Digby (1603 – 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat, and an alchemist. Explaining everything by occult causes, fermentation, and effluvia, he thought he could cure with the “Powder of Sympathy”, a preparation of pulverized and calcined vitriol supposed to act, even at a distance, on wounds and injuries.
provenance: Bookplate Ernest Desnos (1852-1925).
Price : 200 €