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Medicine -- Early works to 1800

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Anthony Brocard medical manual (Enchiridium manuale medicinae practicum: ordine alphabetico ordinatum auctore domine Anthonio Brocardo doctore theologo & medico in favorem & studium domini Ioannis Baptista filioli doctoris medicii anno 1660 continens observationes practicas ex usu in arte medica etexperientia comprobatas ac sepe repetitas a patre suoamantissimo auctore predicto...)

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/199
Scope and Contents

Encyclopedic French medical manual, describing treatment for various common ailments, compiled by Anthony Brocard at the Université de médecine de Montpellier in 1661. Authorites commonly cited include Luis Mercado, Lazare Riviére and Abraham Zacutus.

Dates: 1661

John Dauntesey recipe book

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/070
Scope and Contents Volume contains recipes, manuscript copies of printed medical and chemical works, and genealogical information, 1652-1683. Volume contains recipes and prescriptions in English and Latin, in various hands, on pages 100 and 111-212. There are several references to James Blackburn, who may have owned or compiled the volume originally, then given it to John Dauntesey in 1652. Several prescriptions are specifics against plague. Pages 11-100 contain manuscript copy of works printed in London in...
Dates: 1652 - 1683