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UCLA Catalog Record ID
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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
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.