Recueil de recettes et de secrets contenant différentes compositions utiles et éprouvées; et une note de différentes machines inventées servant à différens usages, etc., avec nombre d'avis divers

An extensive collection of receipts, mainly medical, with a few veterinary receipts, but including also many for cosmetics, 'secrets' of various kinds, details of inventions, household receipts, etc. Among the medical receipts are long sections on purgatives and blood-letting, and on diseases of the eye, including on pp. 245-270 'Description anatomique de l'oeuil suivant le sistème et d'après Mr. Jannin, célèbre oculiste' (i.e. Jean Janin de Combe-Blanche [1731-1799]). The date 1782 is found on p. 20, and 1784 on p. 24 of the last section. Produced in Paris.

1782-4

1 volume 1 l. + 392 pp. + 25 pp. 4to. 211/2 × 14 cm. Original calf-gilt binding. Pp. 304-388 are blank.

Purchased 1936.

Library-stamp of 'Huzard de l'Institut': this MS. is No. 2033 in Vol. III of the 'Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de Mr. J. B. Huzard'. 1842 by P. Leblanc (i.e. Jean Baptiste Huzard [1793-1838]). On the first leaf also is an inscription: 'Don fait à Mr. Courbaissec, Vétérinaire, par Madm. Mogis d'Aurillac', by an early 19th cent. hand.

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).