Prescription book
- Date:
- 1840
- Reference:
- WMS/Amer.87
- Part of:
- Mexico: Hospital de San Andrés
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Recetario de Mugeres. Produced in ?Mexico. In several hands. Prescription book for the women's section of a large hospital during the period 1 March to 31 July 1840. Most daily sets of entries are completed by the signatures and rúbricas of 'Cartami', a few by 'Maldonado', 'A. Carcón', 'Arroyo' and other initials, and by a daily total for the cost of the drugs.
Publication/Creation
1840
Physical description
142 ll. 21 x 15.5 cm. Original limp leather.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1927.
Finding aids
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).
Ownership note
Formerly part of the León Collection.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores