A small collection of English veterinary manuscripts including volume of notes on care of the horse, its anatomy, breeds, training, ailments and diseases, with a number of veterinary recipes. The notes, in a variety of hands, seem to be taken largely from lectures, some apparently given by one Mitchell Dean in April 1833. The volume includes a pen sketch illustrating diseases of the horse's legs. Notebook of veterinary and general household prescriptions and recipesentitled 'Genuine and warranted good prescriptions for horses by "Old Joe" G. Peacock and W. Dixon, vetenaires and co, 1852.' Pocket account book recording the purchase of drugs from Messrs Spencer Dakers and Co., of Low Friar Street, Newcastle, apparently by a veterinarian and notebook containing veterinary prescriptions and recipes, some for named individuals.
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GB 0120 MSS.7159-7162
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19th Century
GB 0120 MSS.7722-7731
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18th century-19th century
A small collection of English medical and cookery receipt books, assembled from several sources, 18th-19th century.
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GB 0120 MSS.1746-1747
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c 1805
Collection of extracts and notes on Agriculture, Botany, Geography and Travel, History, Zoology, etc. Though on p. 146 of the smaller volume there is an extract from a work published in 1808, the majority of the entries are from books published in the period 1770-1780.
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GB 0120 MSS.1751-1752
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c 1725
Collection of extracts, receipts, and notes mostly from medical authors of the early part of the 18th cent.
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GB 0117 MS 41
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sub-fonds
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nd
Commonplace book of medical or pharmaceutical recipes in various hands containing receipts from Boate, Hartlib and Willis. Notebook belonging to Robert Boyle.
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