Medical Collection

Collection of medical receipts and prescriptions, extracts from medical works, notes on patients, etc.: in Latin and English. Author's holograph MS. Some entries are dated, the earliest seems to be 1670 (p. 35). On p. 566 there is an entry dated January 1691/2, but mostly the dates are between 1672 and 1682.

c. 1670-1690

1 volume 1 l. + 703 pp. + 1 bl. l. folio. 31 × 20 cm. Unbound in a pamphlet box. Pp. 603-606 are wanting: many margins and corners frayed or damaged, some leaves damp-stained. Written in triple column.

Purchased at Sotheby's 11/8/1942, Lot 18 (part).

This MS. formed part of the F[rederick] Bacon Frank [1827-1911] MSS., described in the Appendix to the Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1877, by A[lfred] J[ohn] Horwood [1821-1881], C. 1745, pp. 448-465. It does not appear to have been separately entered in this catalogue. At the beginning of his account of the Johnston MSS., Horwood states (p. 448a) 'Johnston's handwriting is rather small and difficult to read': this is certainly true of the present MS.

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).