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Bianchi (Battuti) casebook
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Battuti Bianchi casebook
    Creator: Bianchi, Battuti
    Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0270
    Physical Description: 1 unknown (100 leaves)
    Date (inclusive): 1563-1570
    Language of Material: Italian .

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    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4983397 

    Scope and Contents

    Collection contains Italian physician Battuti Bianchi's casebook, Libro Dove de Nota di Infirmi. Manuscript records are hospital notes written in the vernacular, with names of patients, sex, dates in hospital, symptoms, and outcomes of more that 900 cases. Written on both sides of each leaf with several cases on each page. Margins water-stained but ink remains legible. Contemporary vellum, ms. spine and top cover titles; top cover decorations sewn-on.