| Description Of Item | He sends Cullen an Italian translation of Dr Wither's book on the use and abuse of medicine and writes that it is held in high esteem in Rome. As Stark knew the translator, Cerasole, Stark informed his Italian medical acquaintances that the book uses Cullen's lectures. Another popular book in Rome is 'Domestic Medicine' although Stark believes that 'there was not a single idea in the book that was peculiar to the author...and that the very language belonged to William Smellie, printer at Edinburgh'. He has visited all the hospitals on the continent and describes the ones in Rome including two cases of abuse he saw there. He also sends a register of the weather (not included). In index. |