Description de l'oeil. Avec une grande quantité de secrets et remèdes

Pp. 1-104. Description de l'oeil; 104-183. Recueil de quelques remèdes; 184-187. Le Grand Elixire pour l'estomac du Docteur Stoughton D'Engletarre. (This was perhaps written at a later date by the original scribe.) The title-page, and the Index, following p. 187 are by a different and later 18th cent. hand, and the Index is signed F. A. D. The date 1740 is found on p. 181.

c. 1750

1 volume 1 l. + 187 pp. + 1 l. + 22 bl. ll. 4to. 231/2 x 19 cm. Original calf binding. Some leaves cut out at the end.

Purchased 1931.

Richard Stoughton [fl. c. 1725] was a Chemist of London, who had entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1698. He is mentioned in C. J. S. Thompson's Quacks of old London, 1928, pp. 100-102.

Inside the upper cover is the signature of 'Alder Anderson. Paris. 1900'.

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).