Mexico, 19th century: medical recipes

Miscellaneous receipts. Produced in Amozoc de Mota, Puebla; & elsewhere in Mexico. Item 10 dated Amozoc, September 1833, but in a different hand from WMS/Amer.47-48 & 54-55, which are also from Amozoc at the same period. Receipts for miscellaneous complaints, a few using indigenous plant remedies. Perhaps from the remedy book of an hacienda.

c.1800-c.1840

12 pieces The largest 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Bound

Purchased 1962.

At Wellcome Collection: WMS/Amer.47-48 & 54-55 are from Amozoc, like item 10 in this collection, and date from approximately the same period.

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.