Methodus praescribendi remedia

Methodus praescribendi remedia pro corpore humano. De compositione medicamentorum. Title in red and black, text within red rules. Inside the upper cover and on the fly-leaf are prescriptions in French by a contemporary hand.

Early 17th century

1 volume 71 ff. + 15 ll. 16mo. 101/2 X 81/2 cm. Original vellum binding. First leaf cut out, fol. 6 wanting.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1928.

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 verso of the last leaf 'James Chapman / aught [owns] this book / the grace of god upon / him look' in a late 17th cent. hand.