Pharmaceutical recipes

25pp loose leaf recipes and notes transcribed from a number of medical books and journals, all in the same hand. Most recipes include references to corresponding page numbers in original publications. Also includes passages of medical advice copied from publications, mostly from The Lancet as well as other medical journals. Includes cures for constipation, piles, rheumatism, treatment of burns and scalds, diarrhoea, remedy for warts, fever, and other illnesses and complaints.

1878-1898

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Found in the Library's copy of Keith Imray's The cyclopedia of popular medicine, intended for domestic use (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1842), held in the Rare Books collection as no.29933/B.