Scritti medicinali

From internal evidence this MS. is the compilation of a Physician with an extensive practice, possibly in Rome. The date 1571 occurs on fol. 44v. After some preliminary recommendations for general use, the volume contains lists of remedies, classified, and in rough alphabetical order. Actual cases of his own, or of cures by contemporary colleagues are quoted. At the end are a number of remedies for 'Morbus gallicus', and the use of Guaiacum. The text is in Latin, but on the last few leaves are some receipts in Italian. On the upper cover is written 'Scritti medicinali', and on the spine 'Medica varia'. The compiler may possibly be one Giuliano Granucci, otherwise unknown, for there are inserted in the volume two short notes, addressed to this person from Giuliano Contughi, dated 1570; and from Augusto Titio, undated. These are found between fol. 35 and fol. 36, and between fol. 244 and fol. 225. Produced in [Rome?].

c. 1570

1 volume 280 ff. + 14 ll. folio. 271/2 x 20 cm. Original vellum binding, vellum ties wanting. Slightly wormed.

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Purchased 1930.

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).