Medical Recipe Book, 19th century

Date:
1824-1867
Reference:
MS.6826
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Medical Recipe Book, 19th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A commonplace book of medical recipes, including pasted-in prescriptions and newspaper cuttings. Treatments described are usually for minor complaints, but occasionally for serious diseases such as cholera (f.18). The author, supposed to be Charlotte Hobhouse (1831-1914) daughter of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786-1869), gathered information from personal and printed sources.

Publication/Creation

1824-1867

Physical description

1 volume 1 vol., 133 × 90 mm., 90 ff., ff. 30-90 blank, paper watermarked 1816. Original boards; quarter bound in red roan.

Acquisition note

Purchased from Richard Hatchwell, 1991.

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/160.. A colour photograph of newspaper cutting with remedy for cholera, c.1850s, held by Wellcome Images at L31847C.

Finding aids

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.

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  • acc. 348807