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<dl><dd>Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription</dd>
<dd>There are two other editions of this anonymously printed pamphlet, both printed in Halle an der Saale in 1720 and 1721; only the 1721 edition has been attributed to a Friedrich Hoffmann by the Bibliotheks Verbund Bayern, which cannot be attributed to Friedrich Hoffmann by any other source. The online authorities of the Deutschenational Bibliothek lists a Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742) who was a medical doctor and a chemist and who was born and died in Halle an der Saale but does not list this publication in works attributed to him</dd>
<dd>"Von denen balsamischen Pillen und deren Würckung", p. [15-20], includes references to tea, coffee, and china-china, or Jesuits bark, which was used to make quinine, from South America</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-B⁴ (A1 verso blank) C²</dd>
<dd>Engraved head and tail pieces</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: Grundlicher Bericht von der balsamischen, Blut-Reinigend, und confortirenden Pillen, zueverlässiger sonderbahren Würckung, und rechtem Gebrauch / possibly written by Georg Ernst Stahl, Halle [an der Saale], 1719?</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy disbound</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Coffee; Tea; Botany, Medical; Materia medica, Vegetable; Cinchona bark; Quinine; Patent medicines; Medicine; Imprint 1719</div>
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<dl><dd>unknown</dd>
<dd>Hoffmann, Friedrich, 1660-1742</dd></dl></div>
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