Boerhaave's Lectures on Herbs
- Date:
- 1717-1718
- Reference:
- MS.MSL.53/3
- Part of:
- Boerhaave's Lectures
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Headed: "Lectiones de re herbaria publice a Clarissimo Hermano Boerhave Botanices Professore hibitae-Lugd. Batav. April 28, 1718." Rapid and very cursive epitome of lectures, often with 2, and sometimes 3, columns to a page. The lectures deal first with the properties of herbs in general, then with specific herbs and their uses.
Publication/Creation
1717-1718
Physical description
fo. 63-112
Finding aids
Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).