Latin America, 18th century: collection of medical recipes

Date:
c.1750
Reference:
WMS/Amer.22
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About this work

Description

[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)].

Publication/Creation

c.1750

Physical description

8 ll., pp.269 [i.e. 250]. 20 x 15cm. Contemporary leather binding in modern slip-case

Acquisition note

Purchased 1962.

Finding aids

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Ownership note

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.

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