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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.

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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.

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...

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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 authrities 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.

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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.'