Latin America, 18th century: collection of medical recipes
- Date:
- c.1750
- Reference:
- WMS/Amer.22
- Archives and manuscripts
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[Secretos medicos, y chirurgicos, &c.].
Produced in ?Mexico.
In the same fine hand throughout, probably by a Religious.
Miscellaneous remedies drawn from printed and other sources.
The first 8 leaves provide a subject index to the 573 numbered remedies; pp. 1-45 copy, with omissions and additions, pp. 1-75 of J. Curvo Semmedo, Secretos medicos, trans. T. Cortijo Herraiz, Madrid, B. Peralta, 1731 (or perhaps a later edition), giving medical receipts in alphabetical order; the remaining leaves comprise a miscellany of remedies.
Pp. 69-74 copy notes on, and a list of, symptoms benefited by the powder of G. Chiaramonte, [Tratado de la admirable facultad y efectos de los polvos, ó elixir vitae, Madrid, A. Gonzalez de Reyes, 1706 (originally published in Genoa, 1628)].
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