Observations médicinales et autres

Including 'Erreurs communes sur le choix de l'eau à boire', and a collection of notes and extracts in alphabetical order on materia medica, remedies, etc. This MS. is a medical commonplace book, mainly concerned with medicinal substances, foods, etc. There are numerous additions written in the margins, possibly by the original compiler at a later date. On the first page of text is the date 1790, in an added note.

1766-1790

1 volume 74 ll. 4to. 22 × 17. Unbound.

Purchased 1925.

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).