Lectures on various subjects: with material by Jacques Lazerme (1676-1756)

De convulsione, morbis convulsivis et epilepsia, [etc.] Brevis chyrurgiae expositio per summaria capita. Curation du scorbut. Du cancer [etc.]. Lazerme (J.). De la matière médicale, recettes diverses. - Traité des formules. On p. 1 of the first work 'Authore Domino Astruc'. On p. 76 of the tract 'Du cancer' is a note dated 1796 by the son of the writer of the MS. On the verso of the fifth unnumbered leaf following, is a note by the original scribe dated 1764, but it would seem to be an addition made some considerable time later than the writing of the main work. Produced in Paris & Montpellier.

1756

1 volume 136 pp. + 100 pp. + 12 ll. + 78 pp. + 9 ll. last bl.. + pp. 183-272 + 2 ll. last bl. + 184 pp. + 1 l. 8vo. 18 x 13 cm. Original calf binding. The pagination is irregular.

Purchased 1930.

The MS. is written mainly by the same hand as that of the Astruc MS. (1013), the Astruc & Lazerme MS. (1018) and the two Lazerme MSS. (3196-7).

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).

From the Berhard VI Collection.