Receipt-Book, French: 19th century

Collection of medical receipts: in French. The spine is lettered 'Secrets de médecine 1620', which is obviously an error. A reference on the verso of the penultimate unnumbered leaf, to the use of 'sulphate de quinin', proves that this entry in the MS. could not have been written prior to 1820, though the earlier part of the volume was probably written in the first decade of the 19th cent. The last entry seems to be by the hand of a very old person.

c. 1810-1825

1 volume 45 pp. + 37 ll. + 13 bl. ll. 8vo. 161/2 × 101/2 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Purchased 1934.

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).