Nonce collection of four provincial manuscripts. [1] Manuscript fragment records cures of all kinds of ailments and records medical consultations -- [2] Cures for ailments and addresses complex diseases -- [3] Pharmaceutical record with notation and headings -- [4] Excerpt copied from a book.
Created:
1650? - 1701?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Holograph manuscript includes 250 recipes for various remedies and French medicines including descriptions of ailments and treatments. Also includes recipes for vanilla, chocolate, vinegar, wines, and perfumes. Recipes use ingredients such as cinnamon, vinegar, butter, rhubarb, nutmeg, cloves, rosemary, plums, and more.
Creator:
Courbis, Jean Antonie
Created:
1706
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Two manuscript laboratory record books listing secret ingredients, steps for fabicating ""Gouttes du Général La Motte"" (also known by ""teinture toniconervina Bestuscheffi"" and ""Klaproth's tincture""), and records of delivery to patients using the tincture. The elixir was touted as a cure-all that treated apoplexy, paralysis, gout, pleurisy...
Created:
1730 - 1733?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
This manuscript recipe book contains medicinal recipes for the fabrication of various ointments and balms as well as the secret to clarify wines. Handwritten.
Created:
1743
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
This work is a collection of French medicinal and culinary folk recipes. Sections include remedies for fevers, chest ailments, palsy, dysentery, rheumatism, stomachaches, and epilepsy as well as veterinary guidelines to care for horses. It also includes directions for the garden and kitchen which tell how to plant asparagus, how to preserve peas...
Created:
1750?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Recipe manuscript of various remedies coming from Greece, Switzerland, Germany, England, and France. Manuscript of remedies for various ailments and of recommendations to maintain health. Includes summaries of medications, virtues of drugs in general, cordials, names and weights of medicines, infusions, distillation, various waters, liqueurs, ga...
Created:
1769-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Manuscript of medicinal and culinary recipes written for use in the military. Includes a wide range of remedies including several related to military combat. Includes recipes for preparation of wine, the preservation and salting of meats, and other general household recipes.
Creator:
Séine, Marquis de la
Contributor:
Thiboult du Puisact, Jacques François Marie
Created:
1778?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
