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.

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

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).