Mexico: Recipe book for diseases

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 WMS/Amer.47-48 and 54-55
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Mexico: Recipe book for diseases
Date(s)	: 1823-1840
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 4 files
Name of creator(s)	: Anonymous
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

These items comprise disbound sections of a recipe book, possibly that of a hacienda; the probable area of origin is Amozoc de Mota, Puebla, Mexico. They give recipes for the treatment of diseases such as typhus, cholera and smallpox. WMS/Amer.55 comprises a copy of a contemporary broadside by Gaspar Escayola.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Spanish

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Archival Information

Archival history:

The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1962.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

WMS/Amer.55 comprises a copy of a contemporary broadside by Gaspar Escayola: Tratamiento del colera-morbus en Campeche (Campeche: J.J. Corrales, 1833).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
December 2000.