Stone, William ( -1852)

Collection of medical receipts, prescriptions, notes on materia medica, etc. The second fly-leaf at the beginning is inscribed 'W. Stone January 1836', and a number of entries are in the first person, initialled 'W.S.'. The compiler is probably Dr. William Stone of Leighton Buzzard, who died in 1852. On p. 203 is a receipt for a drink 'of my own! I have called the compound "Gingerade". W.S.' The earliest date given for this word in the Oxford English Dictionary is 1882. Produced in Leighton Buzzard.

1836

1 volume 16 ll. (last bl.). + pp. 19-314. 4to. 19 × 16 cm. Original vellum binding. Pp. 1-18 and some leaves at the end have been torn out. The 16 ll. at the beginning contain an index on sheets of slightly smaller size. The paper is water-marked 1835, and the latest date found in the text is 1837 (p. 266).

Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).