Title: Women and medicine
Description: "Contains over 260 manuscript receipt books, each of which was a highly valued, inherited piece which handed down wisdom and tradition from mother to daughter, and each of which is an important source for historians of medicine and diet, gender, familial and social relations, and knowledge formation. As well as remedies for medical ailments, the manuscripts contain cookery and other household recipes, and in some cases even veterinary advice"--Publisher's foreword.
Subjects: Traditional Medicine, Cooking, History, Early Modern 1451-1600, History, Modern 1601-, Medicine, Sources, Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Women in medicine, European Cooking, History, English literature, History and criticism, Early works to 1800, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
Places: United Kingdom