M0001102: Vade mecum, c.1400

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Pages of a medieval physician's portable handbook from c.1400 showing a diagram decorated with a ring of urine flasks. Formerly in the possession of A. Dickson Wright M.R.C.S, but current whereabouts unknown. It is the same vade mecum discussed in Talbot, Charles Howell: “A Mediaeval Physician's Vade Mecum”, <i>Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences</i>, vol. 16, no. 3, 1961, pp. 213–233. Related images: M0001093, M0001094EA, M0001094EB, M0001095, M0001096, M0001097, M0001098, M0001099, M0001100, M0001101, M0001102EA, M0001103, M0001104, M0001105.

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M0001102: Vade mecum, c.1400

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