Pharmacy, 18th cent.

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mid-18th century
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MS.3874
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Collection of pharmaceutical receipts and prescriptions in systematic order: with a 'Trattato di chimica' on mineral materia medica, and a large selection of prescriptions, etc. extracted mainly from 17th and early 18th cent. authors. In Italian and Latin. Contents: Index and collection of preparations from animal substances (18 ll.). Prescriptions and preparations from vegetable materia medica, divided into 34 sections, pills, unguents, oils, powders etc. (ff. 1-187). Trattato di chimica [farmaceutica], and a collection of chemical and mineral prescriptions and remedies (ff. 187v-233). Trattato de' preparationi necessarie ad ogni Spetiale (ff. 234-240). Trattato di diversi remedi, d'alcuni chiamati Secreti (ff. 241-303). Schroeder (J.) 'Characteres': from his Pharmacopoeia medico-chymica (fol. 304). Further notes on animal materia medica (ff. 305-307). The date 1740 appears on fol. 266.

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mid-18th century

Physical description

1 volume 18 ll. 307 ff. folio. 32 × 221/2 cm. Modern boards. First leaf damaged and repaired: many margins frayed, some damp stains. A title-page and some preliminary leaves are wanting.

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Purchased 1928.

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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).

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  • 49577