Description
Medical Recipes.- Volume of medical recipes, and a treatise on the poor, manuscript, 55pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original limp sheep, slightly rubbed, covers a little splayed, neatly rebacked, [c. 1800]; and another, a manuscript of mainly religious poetry compiled by Richard Fairbrother, Hoxton College, 1813, 8vo (2).
⁂ A compendium of receipts and a treatise on the diseases suffered by the poor in the Salisbury area. The compiler, probably a doctor, was particularly interested in the health of the poor. The manuscript begins with a description of the medical dangers that lurk in damp cottages, suggesting that "the most useful presents that can be made to the Poor... are Blankets & flannel waistcoats". Passages follow on the dangers of stagnant water and the need to whitewash cottage floors. With remedies on posions, dropsy, jaundice, burns, whooping cough, consumption etc.
Lot 162
Medicine.- Volume of medical recipes and a treatise on the poor, manuscript, 55pp. excluding blanks, original limp sheep, slightly rubbed, covers a little splayed, neatly rebacked, [c. 1800]; and another manuscript, 8vo (2).
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Medical Recipes.- Volume of medical recipes, and a treatise on the poor, manuscript, 55pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original limp sheep, slightly rubbed, covers a little splayed, neatly rebacked, [c. 1800]; and another, a manuscript of mainly religious poetry compiled by Richard Fairbrother, Hoxton College, 1813, 8vo (2).
⁂ A compendium of receipts and a treatise on the diseases suffered by the poor in the Salisbury area. The compiler, probably a doctor, was particularly interested in the health of the poor. The manuscript begins with a description of the medical dangers that lurk in damp cottages, suggesting that "the most useful presents that can be made to the Poor... are Blankets & flannel waistcoats". Passages follow on the dangers of stagnant water and the need to whitewash cottage floors. With remedies on posions, dropsy, jaundice, burns, whooping cough, consumption etc.