Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Rupturs, their causes and varietie's

Call number

Ms. Codex 812
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2975960
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2975960

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

England?

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. iii).
   
• One printed leaf laid in from the Philadelphia company Chesterman & Streeter, successors to I.B. Seeley & Co. is dated December 24, 1896 and titled "A word about trade protection."
   

Extent

95 leaves : 261 x 205 (211 x 160) mm. bound to 271 x 207 mm

Foliation

Paper, 95; [viii], 1-2, 4-47, [48-179]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather, spine cracked, covers detached.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with notes and drawings on final leaves possibly in a second hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Dr. Lancaster, London, England; R.L. Hall; J.H. Countryman; E.L. Eliason.
   
• Transferred from the Library of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
   

Subjects topical

• Hernia--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Trusses (Surgery)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Recipes
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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