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English Medical Notebook, 17th century
- Date
- 1575-1663
- Reference
- MS.6812
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Notebook containing medical recipes, commenced in 1650, but containing a few later and non-medical entries.
Remedies for common ailments and more serious conditions including plague.
ff. 1r.-3v. blank.
ff. 4r.-7r. The Table of the Ensuinge Medecines.
ff. 8r.-24r. A booke of physicall receits.
ff. 25r.-76v. Chyrurgery: Heere follow Sundry Medecines for wounds, sores, swellings, bruses Aches & c.
ff. 77r.-86r. miscellaneous recipes.
ff. 86v.-91v. largely blank, some spelling exercises.
Publication/Creation
1575-1663
Physical description
91 ff. (original pagination 1-142, then irregular foliation 143-147) 183 × 141 mm. Contemporary vellum binding, stamped with a daisy and acorn decorative centre incorporating the initials 'F.S.' on front and back boards.
Acquisition note
Purchased from Vanbrugh Rare Books, 1991.
Biographical note
Some recipes are attributed to particular persons, for example a Dr. Vilvin (?Robert Vilvain).
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
Languages
- English