Mexico, 18th century: compendium of remedies

[Secretos medicos, y chirurgicos, &c.]. ?Mexico In the same fine hand throughout, probably by a Religious. Miscellaneous remedies drawn from printed and other sources. The first 8 leaves provide a subject index to the 573 numbered remedies; pp. 1-45 copy, with omissions and additions, pp. 1-75 of J. Curvo Semmedo, Secretos medicos, trans. T. Cortijo Herraiz, Madrid, B. Peralta, 1731 (or perhaps a later edition), giving medical receipts in alphabetical order; the remaining leaves comprise a miscellany of remedies. Pp. 69-74 copy notes on, and a list of, symptoms benefited by the powder of G. Chiaramonte, [Tratado de la admirable facultad y efectos de los polvos, ó elixir vitae, Madrid, A. Gonzalez de Reyes, 1706 (originally published in Genoa, 1628)].

1771

2 ll., pp.88. 20 x 14.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with flap.

Purchased 1962.

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.