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Title

Materia Medica notes

Call number

Ms. Codex 1867
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, Universiyt of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977203451203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1011603274
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k64b05d http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/UPENN_RBML_PUSpMsCodex1867

Publisher

Universiyt of Pennsylvania

Language

This book is written in highly abbreviated Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1750

Summary

This book of notes on Materia Medica, written in Latin, is neither signed nor dated and contains relatively little contextualizing information. Approximately the first third of the book (through page 80) consists of medical receipts, sorted by the forms in which the drugs are delivered- for example, as powders ("pulveres"), pills ("pilulae") or balms ("unguenta"). Within these categories, medicines are mostly but not exclusively titled by the diseases they are meant to confront (for example, "contra paralysis" or "contra asthma"). The rest of the text contains the Materia Medica notes, an alphabetized list of medicinal substances, most of which are plants, though some mineral and animal products are described as well. The fairly succinct entry for each botanical substance provides, when applicable, its full or alternate Latin name, the parts of the plant with medicinal properties, its uses (that is, the particular diseases or conditions against which it may be effective) and its proper dosage. Medical measurements in this book are designated with 'Apothecaries' symbols,' helpfully outlined in a guide by the Text Creation Partnership (http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/docs/dox/medical.html).

Notes

• Processing Information: Formerly Dewey MS 615 M393.
   

Extent

1 volume (.1 linear foot)

Subjects topical

• Materia medica--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Study and teaching
• Medicine
• Medicine--18th century--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Materia medica

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, American--18th century
• Notes

Keywords

• Treatise
• 18th century
• Paper
• United States
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

• Text

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