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.

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).

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'.

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

The book is begun at both ends.

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.

'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.

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

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

'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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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'.

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.

'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 ...'.