M0001335: Reproduction of an excerpt of a handwritten prescription in Latin from a medical casebook of John Metford M.D. of Northampton, 1656

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Prescription in Latin.

Black and white reproduction of an excerpt of a handwritten prescription in Latin in a medical casebook of John Metford M.D. of Northampton, 1656. Possibly reproduced as part of the exhibition Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930 hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The facsimile is listed as exhibit no. 968 in the souvenir catalogue. The reproduction is possibly from the manuscript (reference: Sloane MS 2812) formerly of the British Museum (reference: top of folio B.M. 69 b.), now held by the British Library. Related images: M0001334

15 October 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 11.6 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue, which this item was exhibited in

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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