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
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
Found in:
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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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...)
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, 16521683.
Volume contains recipes and prescriptions in English and Latin, in various
hands, on pages 110
and 111212.
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 11100
contain manuscript copy of works printed in London in...
Dates:
1652 - 1683
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