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College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Robert Pryor Richardson notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey, 1817 (10a-198)
One volume (64 p.) of an incomplete set of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey. Lectures are numbered 2-8; lecture 2 is dated 17 Nov. 1817. Topics covered include animal life, sympathy, nutrients, vegetable food (grains, roots, fruits), animal food (mutton, wild game,...
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English recipe book, 17th century and later MS 8575
Collection of medical and culinary recipes in several hands. The recipes are written into a volume that was originally designed for recording classical exempla, epigrams, or extracts from Roman authors; a few entries have been made under such headings as 'Ars', 'Clementia', and 'Crudelitas'....
London Metropolitan Archives: Recipe Book (CLC/270/MS00558)
A collection of 17th century recipes, in some cases with the name of the donor, which by 1686 was in the possession of Lady Tyrrill.
Medici, Antonio De'
Segreti ... esperimentati di sua propria mano tutti verissimi dati, e donati a me Caterina Medici nel Convento delle Murate di Firenze, l'anno 1598. On the third leaf the MS. is described as 'Trattato copioso diviso in due parti, nella prima si insegna il modo da fare tutti i lisci senaza...
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MS 222: Croy, Anne de, Princesse de Chimay ( -1539)
"Recueil d'aulcunes confections et mèdicines bien spèciales et singulières que madame la duchesse d'Arscot princesse de Chimay, marquise de Remy, comtesse de Pornean de Beaumont, etc. fait mectre en ordre I'an mil Ve trente trois, hors de beaucoup de receptes particulières qu'elle avoit chieux...
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MS 244: Dineley/Dyneley (or Dingley/Dyngley), Henry (& others)
Collection of medical receipts in English, with a few in Latin. Preceded by a Calendar, etc., and at the end part of an Armorial by an earlier hand. With additions to the Receipts by later hands. Written mainly in double column: the Calendar in red and black, and the Armorial partly emblazoned,...
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MS 373: Jane Jackson
"A very shorte and compendious Methode of Phisicke and Chirurgery Containeinge the Cures inwardly and also the Cureinge of all manner of woundes on the bodie together with remedies for the stone and the causes and signes thereof, etc. As also the making of Sirrups and all manner of oyles and...
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MS.5853 Recipe Collection, 19th Century
Collection of culinary, household and medicinal remedies. The recipes were collected by Mrs M H Turnbull, who appears to have been in India in the 1820s, and later at Chobham Place, Surrey, and at Abingdon, Berks. A number of items relate to curry and chutney, and to the preservation of articles...
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MS.9317
c.17th-18th century herbal manuscript referencing 'Parkinson', presumed to be herbalist John Parkinson (1567-1650), author of the most popular printed herbal during this period "Theatrum Botanicum - Theatre of Plants". The manuscript appears to have been written in 2 different hands and contains...
Royal College of Physicians: A collection of medical receipts (MS504)
Handwritten recipe book. In late 17th c. hand. With notes on the medicinal virtues of ox-gall, the prickles of hedge-hogs, the skins of mice, the blood of weasels, etc At the end are six pages of notes from "The Gibson, M.D. his book of Anatomy" written about 1700-1704. (Thomas Gibson M.D....
