Details

Subjects:

Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Prescriptions.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Descriptions of symptoms and treatment of ailments and diseases, with each section followed by a list of preparations of medicines. Includes references to medical authors such as Sydenham, Boerhaave, Hoffmann, Mauriceau, Albinus, and van Swieten and to Thomas Young (Volume 1, p. 65), professor of midwifery at Edinburgh from 1756 until his death in 1783. Brittleness and ink bleed-through due to oxidation, particularly in the large letters on the section title pages.

Contents:

Volume 1
1. p. ix-x, 1-32: Ague
2. p. 33-46: Febris ardens
3. p. 47-62: Measles
4. p. 63-84: Apthae
5. p. 85-110: Phrensy
6. p. 111-128: Erysipelas
7. p. 129-146: Iliac passion
8. p. 147-173: Fluor albus
Volume 2
1. p. vii-viii, 1-26: Gout
2. p. 27-46: Rheumatism
3. p. 47-116: Rickets
4. p. 117-148: Dysentery
5. p. 149-190: Epilepsy
6. p. 191-221: Phthisis pulmonalis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title pages (Volume 1, p. v; Volume 2, p. v).
Pagination: Paper, 108, 127 leaves; Volume 1, [i-x], 1-173, [174-206]; Volume 2, [i-viii], 1-221, [222-248]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Layout: Upper horizontal and vertical bounding lines ruled in lead; first line of text above the upper bounding line on each page.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Original (18th-century) English calf, gilt spines.
Origin: Possibly written in Edinburgh, or elsewhere in Great Britain, after 1756 (Gedge; based on reference to Thomas Young at Edinburgh).

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Norwich surgeon John Green Crosse (signature on title pages, Volume 1, p. v, Volume 2, p. v).
Formerly owned by Edmund Lechmere of Severn End (Worcestershire), 1917 (bookplates, with motto Christus pelicano, inside upper covers).
Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Hanworth, England), catalog 19 (2014), number 63.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1709.

Contributor:

Cross, John, 1790-1850, former owner.
Lechmere, Edmund, former owner.
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

OCLC:

922777877

Web link:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page