Mélanges médico-chirurgicaux et pharmaceutiques, 1821 ... 1825. With additions, the latest dated 1868 (fol. 13)

Illustrated with a coloured drawing in crayon (fol. 5) of a syphilitic face, and numerous rough pen-and-pencil drawings of bandages, syringes, and other medical instruments, etc. Some of the entries are written in pencil, and there are some blank leaves. This note-book of an anonymous French physician contains medical receipts, remarks on cases, some with words and sentences in cypher: also notes on diseases and treatment, especially of skin and venereal maladies. Some of the bandages and apparatus seem to be of the compiler's own invention.

1821-1868

1 volume 140 ff. 8vo. 14 × 9 1/2 cm. Original half-vellum binding. Ff. 74-78 have been cut out.

Purchased 1932.

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).