Workdiary 7 (Medical recipes in Latin, 1651)
Content: Medical recipes in Latin from 1651;
sources include George Starkey (including a recipe relating to his ens
veneris), Johann Morian and Gerard Boate
General Information
- Creation: 1651
- Hands: Robert Boyle (all entries)
- Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 25, pp. 341-2
- Languages: Latin (9 entries) English (1 entry)
- Length: 10 entries, unnumbered
- Format: One half (a leaf) of a foolscap sheet
folded to form four pages; both the recto and verso have two columns of
entries.
- Note 1: The entries in this workdiary are
written in two columns to each page. Boyle never repeated this method of
organizing his entries, although it appears he may have commenced Workdiary 8
like this.