Venereal Disease, French West Indies, late 18th century
- Date:
- 1795
- Reference:
- MS.7033
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Procédés de la composition de deux remedes antivénériens.' Descriptions of the preparation and administration of two mercurial compounds for the treatment of venereal disease, by an anonymous surgeon, apparently from the French West Indies. The author refers (f. 1v.) to a patient in the Basseterre, Guadeloupe, and notes (f. 6r.) that his second compound can be prepared by 'le nègre le plus ordinaire en capacité ... avec un produit des colonies.'
Publication/Creation
1795
Physical description
8 ff.
Acquisition note
Purchased from Howard S. Mott, 1992.
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
Permanent link
Identifiers
Accession number
- acc. 348911