Medical treatise, Sixteenth century
Scope and Contents
(1) A printed book, ‘Les diares et almanach calculez par Claude Fabri, docteur en medicine et astrophile: pour l’an intercalaire et bissextile, 1572’; (2) manuscript treatise ‘de medicina’, by J. B. B. (Johannes Bernardus Bassue), beginning ‘Duo potissimum res sunt quæ lumen in discendo pariter ac docendo afferunt, methodus et proprietas sermonis’. The work ends with a table of symptoms.
Dates
- Creation: Sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 volume(s) (64 pages and 80 leaves respectively.)
Language of Materials
Latin
English
Custodial History
On a flyleaf of the manuscript the following is written anonymously: ‘Mr Knatchbull if you desire a short methodical treatise in physick here is as much as in the best institutions of Sennert or Fernel or Riviere, but the definitions of disease are excellent. Pray read it sometimes at your leisure hours. I have profited much by it.’ In the Library by the mid 1750s.
Physical Description
Paper.
Repository Details
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