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Collection of medical receipts, prescriptions and extracts: in English and Latin. Holograph MS. by three hands: the first, that of W. Wells [or Welles]; the second by John Symcotts; and additions by C. Haslam. On p. 77 is a pen-drawing of a distilling furnace for making 'Aqua mercurii'. The MS. is mainly the compilation by W. Wells [or Welles] and John Symcotts who appear to have been contemporaries [partners?], though entries by Symcotts usually seem to follow those of Wells. Their hands are somewhat similar but can be distinguished by the 'R' used by Wells, and the 'Z' belonging to Symcotts. Of the dated extracts the earliest is 1635 (p. 997) and the latest 1659, on a loose receipt between pp. 255 and 258. The principal Authors quoted in the MS. are Johann Hartmann [1568-1631], Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne [1573-1655], Oswald Crollius [1580-1609], and Lazarus Riverius [1589-1655]; all of whom were in favour of chemical remedies. Pp. 952-969 contain extracts in Latin and English by the hand of Symcotts headed 'De partu collecta ex Jaq. Guillimeau [sic]' (i.e. Jacques Guillemeau [1550-1613]).

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