Pharmaceutical recipe book, circa 1761-1799.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Pharmacy--18th century--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Pharmacy.

Medicine--18th century--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine.

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

recipes.

prescriptions.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts (Vancouver, Canada), 2016.

Physical Description:

1 volume + 1 folder (4 notes)

Place of Publication:

circa 1761-1799.

Language Note:

In Latin.

Summary:

A leather bound volume with "Collectanea" stamped on the spine and "I : Beli" stamped on the cover comprising pharmaceutical and medicinal recipes written in Latin. The volume was probably written by a pharmacist or physician in England spanning the years from approximately 1761 to 1799. The book contains a myriad of recipes and formulas including drops, elixirs, ointments, pills, plasters, powders, and syrups utilizing ingredients of herbs, metals, and opium to treat diseases and ailments. The recipes provide remedies and treatments for arthritis, bladder ailments, colic, dysentery, eye ailments, fevers, gonorrhea, heart ailments, inflammation, scurvy, stomach ailments, and worms. In addition to the recipes are descriptive treatment techniques and instructions. Some recipes have notes updating formulas and treatments. At the beginning and end of the volume are a few quotations and maxims. A portion of the volume is blank. 4 notes formerly laid in the manuscript, one bearing the date 1761 under a notation, are now in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript.

Cited as:

Pharmaceutical Recipe Book (Ms. Codex 1799). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

962735868