Extracts from 'Aphorisms'

Extracts from Boerhaave's 'Aphorisms'; notes on physics, mechanics, physiology, anatomy, marine plants, etc.: in Latin.The section on mechanics is illustrated with a few roughly drawn diagrams.

mid-18th century

1 volume 176 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 16 cm. Original vellum binding. Some leaves have been torn out at the beginning, and in the middle of the volume.

Purchased 1928.

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).