[Materia medica]

Timespan:

18th century; Early works to 1800

Date:

1748

Description:

Compendium of medical recipes and treatments, with many notes on dosage for children and infants. Includes emetics, purgatives, carminatives, stomachics, febrifuges, emollients, diuretics, emmenagogues, elixirs, etc. Incomplete table of contents (f. 1r-2v).

Language:

English

Provenance:

Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1998.

Subject:

Pharmacy -- England -- 18th century; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Pharmacy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Recipes; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

212 leaves : paper; 136 x 95 mm bound to 134 x 92 mm

Geographic Subject:

England

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, 212; [1-212]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Script: Written primarily in one hand, perhaps with additions in other hands, on different types of paper, probably in England.; Binding: Contemporary leather with later paper wrapper pasted to upper cover. Leather is badly deteriorated particularly on the spine. Paper wrapper is brittle and disintegrating also particularly on the spine. Leaves were trimmed unevenly at the top resulting in the loss of text, particularly in the second half of the manuscript. First few leaves are very fragile due to damage from tears and tape residue.; Origin: Probably written in England, ca. 1748 (f. 207v), 1749 (f. 172r).; English, with a few recipes in Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 752