A Collection of medical prescriptions, accompanied by practical remarks and examples

Date:
c. 1790
Reference:
MS.1730
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A Collection of medical prescriptions, accompanied by practical remarks and examples. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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With a general index: in English throughout. Many of the receipts, some of which are of a popular or superstitious nature, are dated-the latest date is 1792 (p. 10).

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c. 1790

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1 volume 276 pp. [wrongly numbered 176]. + 4 ll. 4to. 15 x 111/2 cm. Original calf binding. The title-page is mutilated, having the upper corner, and lower half cut away. Written in a script imitating print.

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Purchased 1915.

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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).

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