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Medical Recipe Book, 19th century. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Medical Recipe Book, 19th century
- Date:
- 1824-1867
- Reference:
- MS.6826
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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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.
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
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.
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Accession number
- acc. 348807