Description de l'oeil. Avec une grande quantité de secrets et remèdes

Pp. 1-104. Description de l'oeil; 104-183. Recueil de quelques remèdes; 184-187. Le Grand Elixire pour l'estomac du Docteur Stoughton D'Engletarre. (This was perhaps written at a later date by the original scribe.) The title-page, and the Index, following p. 187 are by a different and later 18th cent. hand, and the Index is signed F. A. D. The date 1740 is found on p. 181.

c. 1750

1 volume 1 l. + 187 pp. + 1 l. + 22 bl. ll. 4to. 231/2 x 19 cm. Original calf binding. Some leaves cut out at the end.

Purchased 1931.

Richard Stoughton [fl. c. 1725] was a Chemist of London, who had entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1698. He is mentioned in C. J. S. Thompson's Quacks of old London, 1928, pp. 100-102.

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).

Inside the upper cover is the signature of 'Alder Anderson. Paris. 1900'.