Receipt-Book, 19th century

Collection of receipts, with a few notes on treatment, some written in pencil in an inter-leaved copy of 'The Physicians' Vade Mecum: being a Compendium of Nosology and Therapeutics for the use of Students.' By the Rev. Joseph Townsend, Rector of Pewsey, Wilts. Fifth edition. London: C. Whittingham for H. D. Symonds. 1799. The date 1809 is found on the inter-leaf facing p. 71, and 1815 on that facing p. 89.

1809-1815

1 volume pp. viii + 148. 8vo. 161/2 × 10 cm. Original calf binding worn.

Purchased 1928.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).