Title continues: "Being a compleat Body of Prescriptions Adapted to Each Section of the Practical Aphorisms of Hermannus Boerhaave, Professor of Physick at Leyden. Publish'd from that Author's Original Manuscript. To which is annexed Methodus Praesdribendi Pormulas, secundum Archibaldum Pitcarnium; Aphorismi de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis in Usum Doctrinae Domesticae Digesti ab Hermanno Boerhaave." Two works by Boerhaave (1668-1738), Dutch physician, botanist and chemist, regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital.
