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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.

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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.

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'...

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...

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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 ...'.

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'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.

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‘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.

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(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.

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...

Scope and Contents Contains typescripts of memoirs of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston, in three parts including: Family Memoranda 1 (42 pp.); Personal Memoranda 2 (109 pp.); and Personal Reminisces 3 (173 pp.). Also included are various draft typescripts for the Personal Memoranda 2 including Schools (5 pp.); 1880-81 (19 pp.); Examinations (5 pp.); General Medical Council (2 pp.). Manuscript drafts of various sections of the memoirs including those commencing 'As children…' (1 p.), 1889 (6 pp.), 1892 (2 pp.) and...

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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 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.

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Contains notes under the headings 'Loci communes theologici' and 'Dubia quedam de Porphyrii Isagoge', followed by miscellaneous theological notes, medical recipes, etc.

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Contains recipes arranged alphabetically, a catalogue of the owner's books, and notes in Latin of two treatises, 'de medicinâ' and 'de functionibus et humoribus'. There is also a brief pharmacopœia, with the English names of some of the herbs added.

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The volume is commenced at both ends, and contains recipes, chiefly medical, a few verses in English, and a Latin oration in praise of Greek letters.

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Besides some recipes it contains catalogues with prices of medicines alphabetically arranged.

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‘Collectiones quædam medicinæ’: there are desultory notes to the 20th page, where the author states an intention to proceed in a more systematic manner, after which the notes are arranged with more regularity, following Sennertus, [Johannes] Freytagius, [Nicholas Abraham] Frambesarius, [Johannes] Heurnius and [Julius Caesar] Claudinus.

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These lectures were intended for medical students and candidates for Part I of the Diploma in Psychological Medicine.

Scope and Contents The deposit contains letters, documents, photographs, newspaper cuttings, publications, sketchbooks, notebooks, travel diaries, human hair, plant material, paintings, and a portable writing desk. The letters, beginning in 1799, include family correspondence and George Edward Paget’s professional correspondence. There are a number of packets of letters and legal documents assembled by members of the family for particular historical purposes; the earliest document, an...

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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.'

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A volume of recipes and procedures, principally medical but including others relating to dyes and inks, compiled by Quintin Pye. Folio *a is headed ‘this is a booke of choise secrets. A proovid by me often. q p’. Folio 5 is headed ‘Chiefe Receits of Quintin Pye’. There are references to named patients, and recoords of applications of remedies dated 1641 and 1645. Folios 57-60 contain an index (‘The Table’).

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A number of recipes for domestic medicines and cookery; the first being for the Tissick, and the last for elderberry wine.

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Raven explores the idea that many diseases have a psychosomatic component

Scope and Contents Box 1: Typescripts of Gates ('No Life Is Long Enough'). Box 2: Typescripts of Gates; reviews of Gates; letters to Keynes prompted by its publication. Box 3: Original copies of 'The Enthusiast'; letters from Keynes to his parents, written from Rugby; Rugby School handbooks. Boxes 4-6: Envelopes containing letters to Keynes. Box 7: Papers concerning Eric Gill; unsorted letters, c. 1938-1940. Box 8: Bound volume of letters from Keynes to A.T. Bartholomew, 1906-1920, including many written from...

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'Collected out of the Dr Dan. Sinnertus his workes, and put into English by D. B. for his owne pticular use.' With an index, entitled 'An alphabeticall index or table to the medicines or receipts following, collected out of Dr. Daniell Sinertus his workes, conteyned in 3 tomes translated by Dru Burton, for the use of himself, and his friends'. The last few pages of the manuscript contain a treatise on the pathology and treatment of various convulsive affections.