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Benjamin Coles commonplace book

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Identifier: MSS 2/041
Scope and Contents "Anthropologica nova seu liber medicus manualis, scrip[si]t. Binj. Coles, G. Fosters, 8 Septem[be]r. 1735."

Contains 171 entries including definitions, medical recipes, and prescriptions for ailments, diseases, and pregnancy. Occasional entries concern matters of materia medica or natural history.
Dates: circa 1730s
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia / Benjamin Coles commonplace book

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