Traité de la nature

TRAITé de la nature du cheval et de la manière de le guérir dans ses maladies. [Followed by] Antidotoire, ou recueil de recettes pour toute sorte de maladies avec la dose de chaque médicament. The 'Antidotoire' begins at p. 466. Following the 'Antidotoire' are short notes on fevers, farriery, etc.: and after p. 465 there are three unnumbered leaves of a chapter headed 'Que les astres et les estoiles ont l'influence sur les corps des chevaux'.

Late 17th century

1 volume 654 pp. + 17 ll. (first & last bl.). 4to. 22 × 171/2 cm. Unbound. Some leaves, including the t.p., are missing from the beginning: first leaf slightly defective.

Purchased 1930.

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).