BAKHERAKHT (Andrei).

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BAKHERAKHT (Andrei).
Pharmacopoea navalis rossica. Aut catalogus omnium necessariorum medicamentorum [...]. Petropoli [St. Petersburg], s.n., 1784. In-8, bradel cardboard, smooth spine with black title piece along the spine, speckled edges (Modern binding). Blake, p. 343. - Catalogue des Russica, no. 540. First edition of the very first Russian naval pharmacopoeia, by Andrei Bakherakht, physician of the Imperial fleet. The author tells us that his work was intended for naval surgeons and placed in each of the boxes of drugs and utensils carried on the ships. The medicinal catalogue is in Russian and Latin. It contains formulas for medicines, instructions for forming hospitals on ships, rules for stowing the sick, and so on. The quantity of drugs is indicated for six months of travel. This pharmacopoeia, strictly for seafarers, differs from the other Russian pharmacopoeia of 1778 (Pharmacopoea rossica) described in Heirs of Hippocrates under No. 1590. Some freckles.
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