| Description Of Item | The volume contains a text on the secretion of bile which is written on every alternate page. It has the sub-headings 'Uses of the Bile', 'Explanation of bilious diseases in India', 'Remitt [remittent] fever', 'Bilious flux', 'Hepatitis' and 'Suppuration of the Liver'. The unused pages have been used for other work. From the front: on the flyleaf is a poem about doctors by John Owen quoted by Joseph Lickbarrow, surgeon, 1670; a draft letter to an unnamed addressee asking for a professional reconciliation; a passage from a literary work incorporating a ballad about Duncan Gerr quoted in the 'new edition' of Rob Roy by Walter Scott and a poem titled 'The Withered Tree'; a draft letter of introduction for John Lawrence and signed by R Turner, a recent medical graduate and addressed to his lecturer; draft letter to a doctor objecting to his interference with his patient, John Grant, by recommending leeches; draft article 'On the evidence to be found in the writings of Shakespeare of his knowledge of medicine'; draft article on the lack of respect shown to medicine by authors such as Walter Scott and James Boswell; and a draft article on the use of tobacco.
From the rear: a literary work with another copy of the poem 'The Withered Tree'; 'Notes on Comparative Anatomy from Sir Charles Bell's (Bridgewater) Treatise on 'The Hand' (published 1833) with a diagram of the arm; and a draft response to an essayist with the theory that plays and novels are the same thing. Includes loose inserts: notes on the novel as a literary form; small slip with the words 'Lambeth Street incendiarism'; and notes on a torn copy of the title page of 'Appendix to the catalogue of the Aberdeen Public Library' (published 1838). |