| Summary: | Description: Medical case-book of a physician, practising apparently in Hampshire; 1565-1573. Among the names of patients are:-Jane (Wriothesley], Countess of Southampton, f. 8 b;-Mrs. Mylton, f. 10 b;- Pawlett, f. 33 b;-Richard Ticborne [Tichborne, afterwards Bart.], f. 34 b;-[Elizabeth] Lady Saundes [Sandys], f. 45 b;- Lady Mabell Wriothesley ?], f. 62 b;-Wurseley [Worsley], of the Isle of Wight, f. 63 b;-[Mary Wriothesley] Countess of Southampton,f.68;- Mr.Warden of the [Winchester] Collegge," f.82. At f. 86 b is a song to an infant, with corrections; at f. 98 b, a catalogue of the owner's books; and, at f. 102, a note of debts owing to him from members of New College, Christchurch and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and others. At the end are general medical prescriptions; and, in another hand, numerous recipes for waters, oils, ointments, plasters, etc. On the original outer cover was written, "De magistro Polewheele prisonar[io] in Fleta London Physica et Chirurgeria.".
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