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Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655 (knight and physician)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1573 - 1655

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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Adversaria physica: auditones quotidianæ, Sepr. 1630, 1630 - 1650

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.25
Scope and Contents

A collection of recipes by Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, in his handwriting, with his modifications to the recipes denoted by his monogram appended. It includes prescriptions for cosmetics and washes and for preservation of flowers, etc.

Dates: 1630 - 1650
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Medical casebook and journal, 1653-1655

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.21
Scope and Contents

The casebook and journal of the physician Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. The maladies, and their treatment with its results, of several noble and royal personages, are given in detail.

Dates: 1653-1655
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Medical notebook, 1622 - 1640

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.65
Scope and Contents

Prescription book of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne containing prescriptions date 1622-1640 including one made up for the Queen and one for Prince Charles (afterwards King Charles II).

Dates: 1622 - 1640
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Medical treatise, c 1635

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.85
Scope and Contents

‘Luis venereæ, omniumque eius accidentium curandorum methodus’. By Sir Theodor Turquet de Mayerne. The handwriting is the author's own. The recipes are partly in English, partly in French, but chiefly in Latin.

Dates: c 1635
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Medicamenta ad instruendam officinam nostram chymicam nunc præparanda, mens Oct. 1607, 1607 - 1647

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.26
Scope and Contents Relates to the preparation of medicines, with a few descriptions of the apparatus employed, and the modes of adjusting and using such apparatus. In the handwriting of Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. On the 105th leaf there is 'Censura Trogniana in aliquot operationes hoc libro contentas', and on the 109th, 'Cathartica quædam mineralia'. Many of the formulae, apparently original, have de Mayerne's monogram; others are taken from Paracelsus, with observations of the compiler, and the doses to be...
Dates: 1607 - 1647
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Morbi partium nutritarum, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.33
Scope and Contents

Chapters are headed with the various diseases of the alimentary canal, and of these a few have notes of prescriptions useful in such disorders, with occasional marginal references to the authorities for such remedies. On the last page is an index to the different internal disorders. Otherwise the volume is almost entirely blank. Attributed to Theodore Turquet de Mayerne.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pharmacopeia and receipt book, 1632 - 1646

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.24
Scope and Contents

The original receipts are marked in the margin with Turquet de Mayerne's abbreviated initials, and those communicated, with the name of the author, also in the margin. It appears to comprise the interval from 1627 to 1651, though there is a reference on p. 99 to the date 1610. To a prescription for smallpox on p. 177, there is the marginal note 'feliciter dedi regi Carolo laboranti variolis an. 1632.'

Dates: 1632 - 1646
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).