Morton, Charles (1627-1698) & others

Physiologia reformata. Authore Carolo Moreton, Artium Magistro. Scriptum a G. T. 1694. William Tetlow. [In English]. Enquiry into the physical and literal sense of Jeremiah viii. 7. [In shorthand]. Short work on hydraulics?] [In shorthand]. Excerpta quaedam ex Ethices Compendio. Authore Domino Fno [Frommanno]. Illustrated with a few roughly drawn diagrams and figures. The text is identical with that of the author's 'System of Physicks' [cf. MS. No 3635]. In view of the date of this MS., it may have been written by a student at Harvard University.

1694

1 volume 1 l. + 212 pp. + 2 ll. (first bl.). + 12 pp. + 11 pp. + 46 pp. + 39 ll. (last 3 bl.). 4to. 20 × 15 1/2 cm. [Cambridge (Mass.) & Harvard University?] 19th cent. calf binding. The second leaf of the preface is wanting, as well as all the index after letter C. Outer margin of the index to the first tract repaired. Title and text of the first work within red rules.

Purchased 1924.

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).

Andrees Frommann [1591-1666] was a theologian and schoolmaster in Coburg. Library label of Thomas Preston [F.R.S.] [1860-1900].