Astrology & medicine,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23075A
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004625081
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca. 1820.
  • Language of Material
    • English Welsh English, Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • 63 ff. (old pagination 7-42, 48-63) ; 160 x 90 mm. Rebound at NLW in full leather incorporating original front cover.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A volume, c. 1820, containing notes on the astrological practice of medicine and miscellaneous medical recipes, apparently compiled mostly from printed sources, notably Richard Saunders, The Astrological Judgement and Practice of Physick (London, 1747) and Nathaniel Williams, Pharmacopoeia, or Medical Admonitions in English and Welsh (Trevecka, 1793-6).

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Acquisition Information

Mrs Ceinwen D. Price; Swansea; Donation; 1992

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23075A

Archivist's Note

February 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

Additional Information

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