Approximately 1040 pp. (numbered 1-1112 with a few pagination inconsistencies), folio (372 x 239 mm). In French. Written in a calligraphic hand in black ink, with headings in black, brown, or red ink. (Some ink show-through, some soiling.) Bound in 18th-century vellum, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (hinges starting, some soiling). Provenance: Jean-Baptiste Huzard (his Huzard de l'Institut stamp, lower margin first leaf). 

A manuscript organizing earlier treatises on the use of various animal, vegetable, and mineral specimens for preparing drugs.  Each treatise is followed by a table of contents with the Latin and French remedy names in two columns. Various animals, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, metals, minerals, stones, and drugs are listed in alphabetical order (by Latin name) and their therapeutic value for adult and child are described. From the library of Jean-Baptiste Huzard (1755-1838), who was Inspector General of Veterinary schools in France and a member of both the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine.