| Description Of Item | The volume has been rebound. On the front is an original label 'Medical Receipts and Prescription' and on the rear 'Receipts and Prescriptions Dr Garthshore'. It has been used for a number of purposes and is in a number of different hands. From the front the pages are numbered 1-248 and consists of prescriptions and receipts (or recipes) divided into a number of sections. These are headed: 'Draughts' (page 1); 'Julapia' (page 7); 'Powders' (page 33); 'Receipts for children' (page 34) which are continued pages 42-43; 'Prescriptions Dr Cooper contra epilepsiam pro Comite Darlington' (page 39); 'Pharmacopaeia Noscomii Divi Thomae' (pages 44-71); 'Pharmacopaeia Noscomii Thomae Guy Armiger' (pages 72-89); an entry for distemper among horned cattle published at Magdeburg (page 90); Dr Ward's Nostrums', a list of nine prescriptions which were published 1763 (pages 92-97); 'fitt water for children' (page 98); and 'Formulae Medicament Dr Hugh Smith' (pages 99-165). From page 165-248 there are no headed sections although each prescription is clearly delineated.
From the rear the pages are numbered 728-800 and consist of extracts from medical texts, including prescriptions, with a name or names which are presumably the authors. The texts are titled: 'Of the Chlorosis or green sickness' Perry (pages 728-732); 'Of a Suppression of the menses' Perry, Pitcarn (pages 744-749); 'Of floodings' Cheyne (pages 765-768); 'Of the fluor albus or whites' Cheyne, Pitcarn, Perry (pages 780-788); 'Of the Furor Uterinus' Perry; 'Of Sterility and Barrenness' Perry; 'Of Abortions and Miscarriages' Perry; 'Of a hard delivery' Pitcarn, Perry; and 'Of the prolapse of the womb and anus' Perry.
The volume is undated although some of the prescriptions are, the latest being 1778 (page 111). There is an index which starts on the front flyleaf, continues on the last page and back flyleaf and is completed on p4. The index simply lists the prescriptions by page number and is not alphabetical. It is in a different hand from the majority of the text. |