Fevers

Notes in Latin on Fevers, contagious diseases and poisons, written by an anonymous owner in an interleaved copy of 'Medicinae praxeos compendium. Auctore E[dward] G[oodman] Clarke, M.D. [ -1811] ... Plurimum auctum et emendatum (by Arcangelo Spedalieri [1779-1823]). Ticini. Excudebat Capelli. 1806'. The date 1820 is found on the verso of the second leaf. Only the inter-leaves between pp. 1-16, 72-86 of the original text contain the MS. additions, together with 13 ll. at the end of the volume.

c. 1820

1 volume 3 ll. + 210 pp. (expanded to 382 ll.). 12mo. 14 × 9 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1934.

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).