Janus: Prescription book of an apothecary

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.3052	Medical prescriptions
MS Add.3053	Medical prescriptions
MS Add.3056	Collection of music for lute
MS Add.3066	Edward Lively: Treatise on the superiority of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament over the Vulgate
MS Add.3070	John Ellys: Day book, containing notes, a diary, and accounts
MS Add.3071	Prescription book of an apothecary
MS Add.3072	Notes on logic and rhetoric
MS Add.3073	John Ellys: Accounts, some concerning Sturbridge Fair
MS Add.3074	Memoranda, notes, and religious meditations
MS Add.3078	Dictionary of Arms
MS Add.3079	De Valore Episcopatus Norwiciensis, a summary of the revenues of the see of Norwich, with first fruits and tenths
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Prescription book of an apothecary

Title	Prescription book of an apothecary
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.3071
Covering Dates	1625–1658 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Probably in Westminster.

Prescriptions in Latin: many give the name of the doctor, usually 'Dr More' [perhaps John Moore MD LRCP, c. 1618], or patient / other customer. Three are dated to 1625. Among names recurring are Sir Ambrose Turvill, Sir William Smithsby, Lord Teynham, the wife of Sir Henry Roper, Lady Rutland, 'the Lady Dutchessa', Lady Willoughby, 'Mr Browne at the Lady Dormers', Lady Mary Villiers, Lady Frances Cranfield, Lady Denbigh, and Lady Dormer senior. These entries end of fo. 28, with a few additional from other end of the book at fos 125-8. The rest of the volume, and some blank spaces in the section already described, have been filled with medical and culinary recipes in English in a later 17th-cent. hand. One at fo. 76 is dated 1658.

At fo. 102v is a note of expenses for making a suit and coat, 1656.

Fos 103-14, 116-19 and several others: torn out. Fo. 12: 'Jane Cowdray'; fo. 28v: 'Jane Cowdray her book' (c. 1700).

Access and Use

In English and Latin

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Prescription book of an apothecary, MS Add.3071

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Medical Treatments

Recipes

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