Varia medicamenta

Written in a small neat hand, and possibly a copy prepared for publication. Foliation, headings, and small vignettes above the main chapter headings, also small drawings of medical instruments-in red. This MS. is a Physician's note-book of diseases and remedies: in several places, the first person is used as regards a treatment and its result. On the fly-leaf at the end, in an 18th cent. hand 'Scritto nell'anno 1563', which may have been taken from a title-page, now lost. Ff. 53-78 deal with the 'Morbus Gallicus' and other venereal diseases, in which the use of Guaiacum and Sarsaparilla is recommended.

1563

1 volume xxxx ff. + ff. 17-104 + 4 ll. tall 16mo. 15 x 51/2 cm. Original vellum binding, lettered as above. The work is apparently complete, in spite of the unusual foliation: but there is no title-page. The last 4 ll. have been bound in reverse.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1911.

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).

On the first fly-leaf is the signature of Antonio Dominico Viola in a late 17th cent. hand: and two other signatures, struck through and illegible. At the end also 'Jo Orfeo Sala de Lavone ditto Trompia Anno 1671'.