Johnston, Nathaniel, 1627-1705

Collection of medical receipts and prescriptions, extracts from medical works, notes on patients, etc.: in Latin and English. Author's holograph MS. Some entries are dated, the earliest seems to be 1670 (p. 35). On p. 566 there is an entry dated January 1691/2, but mostly the dates are between 1672 and 1682.

c. 1670-1732

4 volumes and 1 file 1 l. + 703 pp. + 1 bl. l. folio. 31 × 20 cm. Unbound in a pamphlet box. Pp. 603-606 are wanting: many margins and corners frayed or damaged, some leaves damp-stained. Written in triple column.

For a notice of the author who was M.D. Cambridge in 1656, and F.R.C.P. 1687, see the Dictionary of National Biography.

With the exception of MS.3086, these MSS. formed part of the F[rederick] Bacon Frank [1827-1911] MSS., described in the Appendix to the Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1877, by A[lfred] J[ohn] Horwood [1821-1881], C. 1745, pp. 448-465.

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).