[Medican prescriptions] : manuscript, [17--]

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Bibliographic Details
Description:1 v. ; 32 x 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Format: Print Archives/Manuscripts
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy is from the collection of Mortimer Frank of Chicago.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5154624
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Other authors / contributors:Amory, Thomas, 1691?-1788?
University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 679.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
Provenance:Acquired 1919.
Illustrated bookplate: Mortimer Frank.
Stamp: Frank Medical Collection.
Tipped in: engraving of Thomas Amory.
Former owner named Joseph Scott's inscription on f. 132r of a memorandum concerning his activities at the "Vagrant Office" dated 1843.
Binding: Original vellum over boards, stained and worn; blind-tooled ruling on front and back boards; fragments of leather ties.
Notes:Text in English.
Summary:A collection of 1,327 prescriptions from a variety of sources some of which are cited. The prescriptions are numbered and begin with description of the disease that they treat. The work is attributed to Thomas Amory.
Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note:Description available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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