Mexico, 18th century: Medical recipe

Receta y modo de hacer el Azeyte especifico q[u]e el Dr. Ibarra ha descuvierto, cuyas virtudes son tantas q[u]e parecen increibles, pero la experiencia acredita sus admirables virtudes. Produced in ?Mexico. Part of a receipt (composed of olive oil, Gum Euphorbium [Euphorbia resinifera], white wine, onions, rue, saffron, cloves, and black pepper) whose action when applied or rubbed in warm was claimed to counteract cold stomachs, painful joints, obstructions, and related conditions.

c.1785

1 l. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Bound.

Purchased 1962.

A Manuel Ibarra is listed in Protomedicato (1829) as examined and approved as Profesor de farmacia on 8 October 1781.

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.