Finding Aid for the Medical Recipes, Astrological Charts and Medical Charts Manuscript Biomed.0217

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: 4780784 

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.