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1.
"When a man's a little bit poorly" the celebrated comic song as sung by Mr. C. Taylor, the words by

Creator:
Lisle, Joe, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1830]
Call Number:
Print01034
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Six scenes narrating the fuss caused by a man's progression from minor cold to supposed major illness and then sudden recovery. The man's initial plea for nursing with his cold leads onto the summoning of a doctor and procurement of an abundance of po...
Description:
Title from text below images.
Publisher:
Published by Clementi & Co., 26 Cheapside and J. Hull
Subject (Topic):
Sick, Psychology, Cold (Disease), Physician and patient, Nurses, Convalescence, Medicine, Illness anxiety disorder, and Skeletons
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "When a man's a little bit poorly" the celebrated comic song as sung by Mr. C. Taylor, the words by T. Hudson, the music arranged by J. Blewitt / [graphic]

2.
A bitter draught [graphic]

Creator:
Doyle, John, 1797-1868, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 23rd, 1842.
Call Number:
Print10071
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. The doctor (Peel) holding a medicine bottle labelled: "New tariff" says: "Come take it off like a man! Its the only remedy for your complaint,...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarke[t] and Printed at the Genl. Lithc. Estabt., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., Baring, Francis Thornhill, 1796-1866., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Legislative bodies, Reform, Physician and patient, Nurses, and Medicine
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A bitter draught [graphic]

3.
Account and recipe book, 1661-1788

Creator:
Bones family
Call Number:
Osborn b419
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript volume, on paper, in several hands, containing accounts and recipes apparently recorded by members of the Bones family of Essex. There are thirteen cookery recipes for wines and cordials, orange water, oyster loaves and gingerbread. Medica...
Description:
Annotations and pen trials in various hands on pastedowns and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Essex., Great Britain., and Essex (England)
Subject (Name):
Bone family. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, Households, Medicine, Plague, Recipes, and Economic conditions
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account and recipe book, 1661-1788

4.
Collection of medical receipts

Published / Created:
between 1400 and 1499.
Call Number:
Manuscript 60 vault
Image Count:
190
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical recipes in German (ff. 1-11 and 18-67), materia medica in German and Latin (ff. 11-18), and more recipes added between the late 15th century and the 18th century (ff. 6...
Alternative Title:
Receipt book; German text on materia medica : written on vellum and paper in two different hands, with original wooden boards
Description:
In German and Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical receipts

5.
Collection of medical receipts

Published / Created:
between 1400 and 1499.
Call Number:
Manuscript 58 vault
Image Count:
112
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in two different unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical ingredients and recipes. Contains, in the first humanist hand, collection of medical recipes (ff. 1-21r) and a text of medical recipes against the plague by Mastro Tom...
Description:
In Italian and Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Recipes, Manuscripts, Materia medica, and Medicine
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical receipts

6.
Commonplace book, [ca. 1767?].

Creator:
Clough, William?
Call Number:
Osborn fc129
Image Count:
154
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript commonplace book with sections treating geometry, trigonometry, surveying, clock making, violin making, and gilding, as well as receipts for varnish, medicines, "secret writing" and inks, a number of conjuring tricks and slights of hand, a...
Description:
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Subject (Topic):
Magic tricks, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Medicine, and Varnish and varnishing
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, [ca. 1767?].

7.
Herbal in prose and verse

Published / Created:
[ca. 1400-1425]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 46
Image Count:
114
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accep...
Description:
In Middle English and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Herbals, Herbs, Therapeutic use, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herbal in prose and verse

8.
Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]

Published / Created:
between 1400 and 1450.
Call Number:
Manuscript 40 vault
Image Count:
104
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, written on paper (leaves 1-92) and parchment (leaves 93-102). Contains medical recipes and lists of herbs in Middle English (incipit: Here begynne goode medecynes; ff. 5-71), French provers in verse (incipit: Ce ...
Alternative Title:
Medical recipes [in English] ; Imago mundi de Asia, Africa et Europa: Asia a regiam [in Latin] and Imago mundi de Asia
Description:
In Middle English, Middle French, and Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]

9.
Privite of privyteis

Creator:
Johannes, de Caritate
Published / Created:
[ca. 1461-1490]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 38
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
248
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of this unique English prose version of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also includes a short astrol...
Alternative Title:
Secretum secretorum
Description:
In Middle English and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, de Caritate.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, Education of princes, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Privite of privyteis

10.
Recipe and charm book, [circa 1750].

Call Number:
Osborn c632
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript in at least two hands containing 7 medical charms and 25 medical receipts. There are treatments for worms, sore throats, ague and fever, hornet stings, snake bites, whooping cough, scurvy and rashes, as well as a recipe for opodeldoc. The c...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, Medicine, and Recipes
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Recipe and charm book, [circa 1750].

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