A Booke of excellent medicines

Booke (A.) of excellent medicines taken out of the best written bookes. The medicines begin proued for the most parte as also other admirable thinges belonging to Phisicke taken out of the French... Whereunto are annexed certaine copies for the making of some hott waters and precious oyles, with the excellent virtues of sage and of the oake. As also how to administer purgations, vomitts, and the preparations pertaining to it before hand....

Middle 17th century

1 volume 114 pp. + 2 ll. fol. 35 x 20 cm. Original rough calf binding worn. Some leaves have been cut out at the end, including the end of the Index after the entry `Sore throat'.

Purchased 1930.

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).