Hirschebrunner, E.

Apothecary's prescription book, with notes on patients and their maladies, from 8 September 1781 to 24 February, 1782: in German. The entries are written by different hands. Inside the upper cover is a modern reproduction of G. Locher's portrait of the Swiss empiric and uroscopist Michel Schüppach [1707-1781]. This shows Schüppach in his Pharmacy seated before a lady, and holding up a urine-flask. This portrait is reproduced in an article on Schüppach by M. Camille Vieillard in the 'Bulletin de la Société française d'Histoire de la Médecine' t. 2, no. 1, pp. 146-154, 1902. Schüppach practised for a time at Langnau. The initials 'E.H.' are inscribed outside the lower cover, and this MS. was acquired with other books, pictures, etc., from the Hirschebrunner Pharmacy. Produced in Langnau.

1781, 1782

1 volume 114 ll. folio. 321/2 × 201/2 cm. Original boards, back-strip damaged.

Purchased 1928.

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).