"Dispensing with Women's Health" – A 1728 Manuscript written by Thomas Mapples, surgeon & apothecary - Perhaps the first recorded manuscript of the medical remedies of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals

Apothecaries--London (England)--Eighteenth century
Guy's Hospital
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescription
St. Thomas' Hospital (London, England)

18th century apothecary’s manuscript with notes from Guy’s & Thomas’ Hospitals. [Circa 1728-33]. Octavo (153 mm x 100 mm x 28 mm). A total of 147 leaves with text mostly to rectos, arranged into 4 sections. A leather-bound volume of medical remedies, written by hand, mostly in Latin including solutions for the bite of a mad dog, for a women fainting in travel, a jalop for the gripes etc. Part way through the volume a 'Catalogus Medicamentorum in Usum Pauperum in Nosocomio Divi Thoma', comprising 39 pages of alphabetical entries, continuing with a hand written 'Pharmacopaeia Nosocmy Tomae Guy 1728' comprising 42 pages of alphabetical entries etc. The fly leaf named Thomas Mapples, May 2, 1723. The book partially restored.

Mapples, Thomas

Digitized by the rights holder

1728

English

Receipt books

mapples_recipes

Dean Byass Rare Books

Eighteenth century

London (England)

Anonymous. Name available upon request.