Details

Other Title:

Ruptures, their various kinds, causes, and cure

Subjects:

Hernia -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Trusses (Surgery) -- Early works to 1800.
Trusses (Surgery).
Hernia.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Recipes.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Contents:

1. p.1-11: Ruptures, their various kinds, causes, and cure.
2. p.12-38: Trusses, theire kinds and uses.
3. p.40-47: Of vegetables and manner of preparing them for the cure of ruptures in generall.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. iii).
Pagination: Paper, 95; [viii], 1-2, 4-47, [48-179]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with notes and drawings on final leaves possibly in a second hand.
Decoration: Pen and ink and pencil drawings, primarily of trusses.
Binding: Contemporary leather, spine cracked, covers detached.
Origin: Possibly written in England in the second half of the 18th century .
One printed leaf laid in from the Philadelphia company Chesterman & Streeter, successors to I.B. Seeley & Co. is dated December 24, 1896 and titled "A word about trade protection."

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Dr. Lancaster, London, England; R.L. Hall; J.H. Countryman; E.L. Eliason.
Transferred from the Library of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 812

Contributor:

Chesterman & Streeter (Firm)

OCLC:

155911369

Access Restriction:

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