Escayola, Gaspar (fl. 1833)

Tratamiento del Colera Morbus. [Possibly produced in Amozoc de Mota, Puebla, Mexico.] A contemporary copy of the broadside by G. Escayola, Tratamiento del colera-morbus en Campeche, Campeche, J.J. Corrales, 1833 [see Guerra (Icon.) 761], a copy of which is in the Wellcome Institute Library. It describes the symptoms of cholera, methods of treatment, and tabulates 4 receipts at the end. In the same hand and from the same collection of remedies as WMSS. Amer. 47, 48 and 54 with which it was originally bound; and possibly associated with one leaf of WMS/Amer.15. Perhaps from the remedy book of an hacienda.

1833

Ff.viii-ix (i.e. 2 ll.) 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1962.

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.