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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 44 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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Collection of medical, cosmetic, culinary and household recipes, Late sixteenth - early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.09
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A collection of medical receipts with A Short Method to Cure Wounds Made With Gunshot, f. 81. Directions what to do 'For Rupture' (f. 61, in a later hand, c 1610?) are signed 'Richard Burrell M[aste]r in Chyrurgya'. Ff. 1-5 are wholly or partly torn away. F. 55v.: 'To Mr. John Daniell', 'Jos. Troutbecke', 'To his very loving son Cap. Ellis in Edenbourow' and scribblings (all late 17th century).

Dates: Late sixteenth - early 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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Collection of medical recipes, 1657

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.60
Scope and Contents

The book is begun at both ends.

Dates: 1657
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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Collection of medical recipes, c. 1714

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.01.09
Scope and Contents

On p.1 is the recipe (1) entitled 'A temperate plague water'. On p.115 is 'Here ends Dr Baits his receipts'. Then follow some recipes 'for a scurf head', and on p.116 is 'Finis. 1714'.

Dates: c. 1714
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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Collection of medical recipes, Undated

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.28
Scope and Contents

Contains recipes for various affections, with remarks and advice as to regimen and diet, each recipe bearing a reference to Nicholaus Florentinus.

Dates: Undated
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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Collection of medical treatises, Early seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.21
Scope and Contents

The treatises are principally taken from Capivaccius, with the Nomen, Definitio, Causa, Signa, Judicatio, Prognosis, Cautio, Curatio of each malady duly considered. On the fly-leaves are memoranda of other remedies for particular diseases, and there are also recipes from 'Dr Clarke, 'Mr Rob Dey' and 'Sir Will Paddy his practice from Mr Drue'. With an index.

Dates: Early 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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Collection of tracts, Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.83
Scope and Contents (1) ‘A short historical account of the Cistercian order, and the several offices and performances of such persons as profess the monastical state in the same’, by ‘René Guybert, formerly a professed monk in the above-said Cistercian order’; (2) ‘The oration of Sr Roberte Bell for succession; (3) Extracts from various manuscripts concerning the Cathedral church at Norwich; (4) Extracts from various manuscripts relating to Norwich; (5) (a) names of the scholars elected from Westminster School...
Dates: Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
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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Collection of tracts and other writings, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.67
Scope and Contents (1) ‘Johannis Magiri Physiologiæ peripateticæ’, an abridged copy of the ‘Physiologia Peripatetica’ of Johannes Magirus; the manuscript contains only four, and not quite ten chapters of the fifth, of the six books present in the printed version; (2) ‘De moralibus virtutibus Hieronimi Wildenbergii Aurimontani [i.e. Golberg in Silesia] epitome’, a treatise, in three books, on ethics, politics and economics, beginning ‘Moralis philosophia est scientia de moribus’; the chapters are headed ‘De...
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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Collections from Dr John Baverius and Johannes Schenkius by Drue Burton, seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.05.06
Scope and Contents (1) Collections 'out of Dr John Baverius Professor of Phisick in Bononia his Booke, published by Gualter H. Ryff Phisicion of Argentinum, and printed there Ao. Domini 1542.' By Drue Burton. Prefixed is 'an alphabeticall Index or Table for the ready finding of the Remedies mentioned in this written booke.' The writer has added in pencil, that the book whence they were copied was lent him 'by Mr. Sam Jayner Apothicarie.' (2) 'Rare Remedies collected out of Johannes Schenkius his Observacions...
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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Consultations and Remedies translated by Drue Burton from Giovanni Zecchi's Consultationes Medicæ, seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.05.05
Scope and Contents

'Sondrie Consultations and Remedies translated by D[rue] B[urton] out of the learned Phisition Zecchius his Consultationes Medicæ'. Prefixed is 'A perfect alphabeticall Calender or Table for the easie finding of the severall Remedies conteyned in this Booke.' See Dd.02.41. Same handwriting as Ll.05.06, with which it is bound up.

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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Frank Webster Furniss collection, 1917 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/FUR
Scope and Contents Colour copies of photographs, College postcards and (27) letters to and from Clarice Preston, during his time as a student at Downing College. Includes: postcard (2 Nov 1917) soon after Frank's matriculation, saying he had collected his OTC uniform and done his first parade the day before; (22 Jun 1918) description of OTC Camp at Mildenhall; (July 1918) describing helping to unload an ambulance train of wounded soldiers after the Red Cross asked for volunteers - 'We had to prepare over 100...
Dates: 1917 - 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods: 30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files; 50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees; 100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years. Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
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George Stuart Graham-Smith: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10151
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes on medicine and history of medicine, reports on diphtheria outbreaks and medical related photographs and drawings.

Dates: 1889-1947
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Gertrude Caldwell: Notes on lectures of Sir Walter Langdon-Brown

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8650
Scope and Contents

Notes on Cambridge lectures given by Walter Langdon-Brown on elementary medicine.

Dates: 1933
Conditions Governing Access: 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 and chemical collections of Augustus Kuffeler and Charles Ferrers, 1666 - 1690

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.05.08
Scope and Contents Contains many well-executed pen-and-ink diagrams. A later hand has added to Kuffeler's name, 'And Charles Ferrers,' who is described on a fly-leaf at the beginning as ' Phylchimist.' (1) 'Receipts of Chymycal Operations.’ This is followed by a table of the signs of the Zodiack, Planets, Minerals, etc, and an alphabetical index, separately paged. (2) 'A Collection of Approved Medicines in Phisik for most diseases hapninge to Humane Bodies.’ An alphabetical 'Tabula morborum' follows. (3)...
Dates: 1666 - 1690
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 and culinary recipes, 1649

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.36
Scope and Contents

'Book of phisicall receipts, 1649', anonymous, followed by 'Receipts of Mr Henry Harcourt for cookery', in the same handwriting; after these there is another page of medical receipes in another hand. With an index.

Dates: 1649
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 case-books of George Murray Humphry (1820-1896)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10169
Scope and Contents Hospital case-books dating from Humphry's apprenticeship to J. G. Crosse, surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (2 vols.) and continuing under Humphry at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge (9 vols,). Includes general and surgical wards cases. Many entries are in Humphry's hand with some penned by other doctors and surgeons. Two later volumes include pasted-in patient charts; one in a printed surgical case-book format. Additional to the case-books is Humphry's Anatomical Museum...
Dates: 1836 - ? 1919
Conditions Governing Access: 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
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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 commonplace book, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.27
Scope and Contents

Arranged alphabetically. Most of the recipes seem to be by Dr Butler, physician, of Cambridge, 1570.

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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Medical notebook, 1622 - 1640

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.65
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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 recipes, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.66
Scope and Contents

A volume of receipts, anonymous. On the last leaf is a table of contents of the whole, headed 'A general table of the receipts of chirurgery and physicke' and 'A table of phisicall waights'.

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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Medical recipes, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.74
Scope and Contents

Incomplete: 43 pages are lost at the beginning. Text begins: 'Wythe thys medysyn a frenche man heled it …'; the names of the persons who gave the recipes to the compiler are noted in the margin.

Dates: Sixteenth 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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Medical recipes of William Browne, Late sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.75
Scope and Contents

Begins: 'A sement that neyther fier nor water shall dissolve …', and ends with some charms for the 'thoeth ake'; the collection seems to have been commenced by 'Jeames Oxforde' in 1566.

Dates: Late sixteenth 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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Medical remedies, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.41
Scope and Contents 'Sundrie rare improved remedies, for the safe curing of moste kinde of diseases, collected out of the learned workes of the best phisitions, in these later times, who were famous either in the chief universities, or in the courts of the emperor and other princes, or in great cities, faithfully digested by the most learned and most diligent Johannes Georgius Schenckius of Grafenburge into 7 centuries: the greatest number whereof are translated by Drue Burton, for his owne and his friends'...
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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Medical remedies, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.45
Scope and Contents Various remedies for diseases, and several dissertations as to the pathology and treatment of different diseases, taken by Drue Burton from various authors. With 18 'Wholesome rules for health' from Dr Hieron. Donzellinus, and also one from Sinnertus. At p. 145 there is a break off in the MS, the last few lines having reference to the treatment of Quartan fever, by Dr Balthazar Scheiderus. At p. 159 there commence some remedies entirely directed to the cure of the plague, taken from...
Dates: Seventeenth century
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Medical remedies, seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.04.29
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'Sundrie cures and remedies for divers deseases in men women and children, breifely collected out of Ludovicus Mercatus phisition to the king of Spayne his workes contained in three great tomes or volumes, and done into English by D[rue] B[urton]'. The handwriting is that of Drue Burton. The references to the original are given throughout the work. The intention of the collection appears from a note, 'This booke is fitt for a shee phisitian ...'.

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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