A medical commonplace book with prescriptions at one end, many of which are ascribed to authors, and extracts from medical writers at the other, including passages from Dr Harvey's Anatomical exercises of the motion of the heart. The volume is inscribed on the flyleaf 'Wye. March the 14th 1652/3'.
Medical commonplace book
This material is held atCambridge University Library
- Reference
- GB 12 MS Add.8449
- Dates of Creation
- 1653 (Circa)
- Language of Material
- English .
- Physical Description
- 1 collection
Scope and Content
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The book was formerly part of the library of Dr H.P. Bayon. Received from the library of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1982.
Other Finding Aids
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Bibliography
The collection is no. 17 in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca bibliographici (London, 1964), p. 4.