Receipt-Book, Italian: 18th century

Collection of notes on diseases and their treatment, with receipts, and details of cases: in Italian. A number of the entries deal with female disorders, and general intestinal complaints. In many cases the anonymous author gives particulars of his patients and their maladies. The date 1744 is found on the verso of the 12th leaf from the end. Possibly by the same hand as MS. No. 3516 [Medicine: 18th cent.].

c. 1745

1 volume 112 ll. (first & last bl.). 8vo. 18 × 12 cm. Modern vellum binding, with leather ties.

Purchased 1921.

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).