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Colonial Formularies Collection - Hide Description - This collection provides access to two rare dispensatories and receptures that
illuminate the therapeutic practices and medical orientation of two dispensing
physicians in the multilingual colonial medical market of rural Pennsylvania.
The overall objective is the preserve in their entirety and to make accessible
to scholarly and lay audiences a body of writings that offer insight into some
of the medical resources available to the North American colonial population: A
bilingual (German and English) formulary, the Medicina Pennsylvania of George
de Benneville, a French Huguenot physician and the record of the practice and
of the receptures - entitled Remediorum Specimina aliquot ex praxi A. W[agner]
- of a Schwenckfelder practitioner from Silesia. These manuscripts can be dated
roughly to the period 1740 to 1780. Both drew on numerous 18th century
continental European and English sources, explicitly in the case of the Wagner
manuscript and unacknowledged but obvious in the Medicina Pennsylvania. Both
offer copious highly technical receptures for the armentarium of chemiatric and
botanical substances that were in general use at the end of the early modern
period. Similar to other physician manuals of the period, they lay out
medicinals and related procedures for treatment of major diseases and
conditions, including female complaints and pre- and perinatal advise. A strong
but eclectic orientation to chemiatric preparations is evident, matched by
reliance on the traditional botanical and animal reservoir. |
