Medical remedies, 1706-approximately 1773.

[8], 172 , [46] pages ; 22 cm.

French

In French.

Purchased 2016.

Available for research.

Remedies and recipes, mostly plant derived, for a wide range of ailments including headaches, dizziness, mania, apoplexy, epilepsy, melancholy, deafness, pleurisy, dysentery, fevers, stone in the kidneys, suppressed menses, etc. Remedies include purges and sometimes bloodletting. There is a separate section on chemical remedies (133-146). On the title page, the author wrote, "Ce Livre est a ̀ moy Theodore Montandon Bourgeois lequel jais Escrit a Renen [Switzerland] l'a[nnée] 1706." The unnumbered section of the volume is by other hands and includes more recipes, a section on urine, remedies for horses, and two pages on cutting a man for hernia and bandaging the cut. One page, which is upside down from the rest, is a draft statement to the authorities as a witness regarding a birth and paternity case in 1772-1773.

Book of remedies

March 09, 2016

Recipes.

Physicians Switzerland 18th century