Live auction - Lot 1174
[Medicine - Recipes]
"Livre des medecines et remedes experimentez [...]".
[Low Countries], "escrit l'an 1635"
Hammer price: €
700
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
8vo (22 x 18 cm): [121] ff., incl. many blanks, on paper, in French, with additions in Dutch, several hands, the main one inspired by civilité types (some soiling and spotting, small dog-ears, water stains on last ff.).
Contemp. vellum, spine with raised bands (upper cover loosening, worn).
Extensive collection of French and Dutch medical and pharmaceutical recipes, with numerous additions in French and Dutch collected by later physicians, enriched with numerous recipes on loosening lvs. Some recipes: "Pour ceux qui rejette sang en abondances par la bouche", "Pour la colique", "Autre pour faire tombes les hemoroijdes", "Remede contre la jaulnisse", etc. Interesting testimony on the circulation of popular medical knowledge during the early modern period.
Prov. Alfred Streulens, "Médecin principal honor. aux Prisons de Bruxelles-St-Gilles" (ms. entries, 19th c.). - Jean-Joseph Tricot-Royer (1875-1951), doctor in medicine and historian of the medicine (bookpl.).