Medical reciepts notebook and cholera documents

A small notebook containing handwritten recipes (receipts) in English for a range of preparations including 'digestive pills', 'emulsion for a bad cough', 'violent spasms in the stomach' and 'A most delicate broth for an invalid by Dr Parry'. There is also reference to use of the recipes by health professionals: "This prescription meets fully the approbation of Dr Coley who requested to copy it, for the use of his patients". Some of the entries are dated, the earliest being 1821, and one date, in an older hand, of 1844. The dates and names appear to relate to the source of the recipe and when it was recorded. Plus three documents relating to cholera: - Handwritten instructions for the treatment of cholera - "Precautions against Cholera, by the Central Board of Health, a 14-page booklet printed in Bath, 1832 - "Government Instructions relative to Cholera Morbus: Condensed from the London Gazette of Oct. 21 1831", a two-page pamphlet printed in Bath c.1831.

c.1820s-c.1840s

1 folder Cover possibly replaced at a later date.

Donated in June 2021.