Charas, Moïse (1618-1698)

  • Charas, Moïse, 1618-1698.
Date:
c. 1675
Reference:
MS.1549
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Charas, Moïse (1618-1698). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Receptes de Charas en françois. The title given above is that inscribed on a label on the spine. The MS. contains a selection of medical receipts, etc. from the 'Pharmacopée royale, galénique et chymique' first published at Paris in 1672. Additional notes to receipts numbered 1032, 1041, 1045 make reference to the 4to. edition of 1676.

Publication/Creation

c. 1675.

Physical description

1 volume 4 bl. ll. + 136 ll. last 6 bl.. folio. 25 x 18 cm. Original calf binding, worn. A number of leaves are missing at the beginning, as the first receipt is numbered 112. The last blank? leaf has been mostly cut out.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1909.

Biographical note

This celebrated pharmacist, after studying at Montpellier came to Paris, and opened a pharmacy specializing in the making of 'Thériaque'. He was appointed 'Démonstrateur de Chimie au Jardin du Roi'. As a protestant he fled from France in 1680 to England where he was appointed M.D. by Charles II. Later he went to Holland, and to Spain summoned by the King. After staying two years in Madrid, he was imprisoned by the Inquisition on religious grounds, and in 1689 abjured his faith, and returned to France. In 1692 he was elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences by the favour of Louis XIV.

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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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  • 22430