Haviland, John (1653- ) (& others)

Collection of medical receipts and notes, from Haviland's MSS., and extracted from numerous early 18th cent. medical writers. In an inter-leaved copy of Thomas Fuller's 'Pharmacopoeia extemporanea'. Editio tertia. London, 1705. By various hands: in Latin throughout. The date 1713 is found on the leaf facing p. 136. 'Haviland MSS', or 'Hav.' is written against many of the receipts. On the inter-leaf facing p. 128 is the signature 'Isaac Roet Oxoniens[is]' apparently written by a very old man. He is mentioned by Anthony à Wood in his 'Athenae Oxonienses' Vol. III, p. 760, and wrote 'Pestis adumbrata' published in London in 1666.

c. 1715

1 volume 12 ll. + 274 pp. + 13 ll. 12mo. 15 × 8 cm. Original calf binding damaged.

Purchased 1966.

John Haviland matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, in 1669, and was B. Med. from Hart Hall in 1678.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

On the second leaf is a library stamp in red, lettered 'T. Thoresby'.