Medicine -- History -- 18th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Records:
Letters by Carl Linne and enclosed material
Collection
Call Number: MS P188
Overview
Unbound letter from Carl von Linne or Carl Linnaeus to Dr. de Sauvages [Francois Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages, 1706-1767], discussing botany, medicine, friendly scholarly gossip. Collection also includes portraits and supplementary 20th-century material.
Dates:
1740
Saint Sauveur book of medical and technological receipts
Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: MS D156
Overview
Primarily medical receipts (informal directions for compounding and administering folk-remedies); some horse-medicine; also directions for making pigments, for fishing, for removing ink-spots, for secret writing, for catching birds, for making varnish, for mending china...
Dates:
approximately 1739