Workdiary 10 (Latin medical recipes, early 1650s)
Content: Medical recipes in Latin from the
early 1650s, mostly from Théodore Turquet de Mayerne, or 'Dr
Shouart'
General Information
- Creation: early 1650s
- Hands: Robert Boyle (all entries)
- Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 25, pp. 359-62
- Languages: Latin (24 entries) French (1 entry)
- Length: 25 entries, unnumbered
- Format: Foolscap sheet folded to form four
pages.
- Note 1: This workdiary is composed of medical
recipes written in technical Latin using standard abbreviations which we have
not attempted to expand since the contracted forms were so familiar to
contemporaries that it is not certain that they would have known what the
correct expanded form was. For instance 'F' is for 'facio', to make do; 'M' is
for 'misceo', to mix; 's.q.' for 'satis quantum'. i.e., 'as much as is enough', 'sufficient quantity'.