Rossier, Josué (& others)

Parterre de médecine domestique, où l'on trouve les vertus des plantes les plus familières, avec leur usage et préparation, pour la guérison et soulagement des maladies et accidens du corps humain ... Imprimé à Génève. Chez Thomas Caille. 1717 ... par J. R. M. M. L'Art de connoître les hommes, par le Sieur [Cureau] de la Chambre ... imprimé à Amsterdam. 1660. With numerous medical receipts and notes on medicinal plants, extracted from Tournefort and Bauhinus, and a few additions by later hands. Illustrated with numerous small pen-drawings of plants. Contents: Notes in Latin of medicinal weights and measures. Notes 'De saporibus'. Medical receipts in French (8 pp.). Parterre de medecine domestique (pp. 1-78). Receueil de quelques receptes de médecine de diverses personnes et de divers auteurs (pp. 79-134). De la connoissance des maladies (pp. 135-144). Des urines (pp. 144-156). Cureau de la Chambre (M.) L'Art de connoître les hommes (pp. 157-199). Notes on medicinal plants from Bauhinus and Tournefort (pp. 199-202). Index (pp. 203-244). Notes on medicinal plants [cont.] (pp. 225-310). Miscellaneous medical receipts (6 pp.). The date 1727 occurs on p. 100 in a copy of an official 'Précaution contre la dysenterie' issued by the Swiss [?] Authorities. The 'Parterre' has been identified as by Josué Rossier, in Olivier's Médecine dans le Pays de Vaud au dix-huitième siècle, Vol. I, p. 455. Inside the upper cover is the signature of 'Duhon, Juge de Paix à Vévey' in a late 18th cent. hand: there are a few receipts by the same scribe. Produced in Switzerland.

c. 1730

1 volume 8 ll. + 310 pp. + 6 ll. 4to. 231/2 × 16 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1929.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).