San Alberto, José de (fl. 1806-1814)

Arte de conocer, y de curar las enfermedades por algunas reglas de obserbacion, y esperiencia, p[ar]a algunos de mis hermanos, que se quieran aplicar, a exercer (por Dios) la carida[d] de curar antros[?] Hermanos los relig[ios]os, y tambien los Pobres q[u]e no tienen con que pagar un Medico [&c.]. Produced in Orizaba, Mexico. Some pages bl.; pp. 57-60 removed and substituted by 2 contemporary loose bl. leaves; pp. 65-66 removed. Holograph remedy book by a brother of a convent of Discalced Carmelites at Orizaba. The book has 5 sections.

1806-1814

6ll., pp.297 (=292), 40ll. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Bound in contemporary vellum.

Purchased 1962.

José de San Alberto (fl.1806-1814) was a brother of a convent of Discalced Carmelites at Orizaba, Mexico.

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.