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Notebook of John Ward [manuscript], 1658-1660.

1 v. (96 leaves) ; 147 x 90 mm

Medical and chemical commonplace book and diary, containing notes on materia medica and medicine with particular emphasis on diseases associated with childbirth. Includes extracts from Nicholas Culpeper, Jean Riolan's Encheiridium anatomicum, et pathologicum, Conrad Gessner, Athanasius Kircher, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Johann Rudoph Glauber, Santorio's De statica medicina, and George Ent's Apologia pro ciculatione sanguinis. Also includes many stories of practitioners in Oxford, especially William Conyers, Thomas Willis, Richard Lower, Edmund Dickinson, Stephen Toone, and Francis Smith, and accounts of autopsies and animal vivisections. Much on "Dr. Moddesey" (Robert Morison), Jacob Bobart, and the Oxford Botanical Garden. Also refers to Bushel, Lord Bacon's man.

List of contents derived from typescript description. Specific location of references not verified.
One of several volumes, originally 17 in number, known as "Ward's Diary." 16 of these volumes are now Folger MS V.a.284-299.
This volume was kept at Oxford starting in the autumn of 1658 and completed at Mr. Stephen Toone's shop, December 17, 1660.
The latter part of the volume (fol. 68r-94v) is smudged, making interpretations sometimes difficult.
List of contents largely derived from typescript, which did not include page references.
For a microfilm copy of D'Arcy Power's notes on this and 8 other John Ward notebooks, see Folger Film Acc. 682 (original notes held at Royal College of Surgeons).

"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 77.
Frank, R.G. Journal of the History of Medicine, 29 (1974).
Extracts included in Diary of the Rev. John Ward, A.M. : vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, extending from 1648 to 1679 ... / arranged by Charles Severn (London : H. Colburn, 1839).

Medical Society of London MS -- Dr. J.A.S.N. Rosenbach, of New York (Sotheby's, London, April 4, 1928, lot 631).
Formerly Folger MS 2073.5.

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Works. Selections.
Riolan, Jean, 1580-1657. Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum. Selections.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565. Works. Selections.
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. Works. Selections.
Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605? Works. Selections.
Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Works. Selections.
Santorio, Santorio, 1561-1636. De statica medicina. Selections.
Ent, George, Sir, 1604-1689. Apologia pro circuitione sanguinis. Selections.

Great Britain -- England.

V.a.290

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