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Medical remedies and recipes, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.10

Scope and Contents

'Sundrie rare remedies, and receipts, with histories also, translated out of Zacutus Lusitanus his 3 books de praxi medica admiranda, lent me by Mr Sam Peck my worthy friend, & phisition at Chelmsford'. With 'A perfect alphabeticall index of all the rare receipts, cures, and histories, conteyned in this written booke, translated by D. B. ...' [i.e. Drue Burton?], and with accounts of various cures from the works of Amatus Lusitanus.

Dates

  • Creation: Seventeenth century

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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Extent

1 volume(s) (125 pages.)

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

In the Library by the mid 1750s.

Physical Description

Paper.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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