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Medical Recipes, Astrological Charts and Medical Charts Manuscript
Biomed.0217  
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Medical recipes, astrological charts and medical charts manuscript
    Creator: Youmans, William
    Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0217
    Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 volume)
    Date: circa 1760
    Language of Material: English .

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    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4780784 

    Scope and Contents

    Collection consists of manuscript volume, begun at one end with [3] p. of "Tinctures"; from the other, [80] p. of astrological and medical charts and descriptions. On p. [1] is a chart of signs, houses, terms or bounds, and faces of the planets, followed by "Description of the signs" (i.e., types of human bodies) and illnesses occurring in different combinations with signs; [16] p. charts (9.5 p. completed); [2] p. chart of "crysis"; [23] p. of causes; "Diseases signified by the plants"; "Oration of physical art"; "A table of the dignities and debilities of the plants"; "A rule"; "A caution"; description of twelve houses (masculine and feminine) signed in capitals "Blagrave"; and [2] p. of "Aphorisms". Following [35] blank leaves, [1] p. notes labeled "Culpeper"; [1] p. notes; [5] p. charts. On unwatermarked paper.