| Description Of Item | Title as given on volume is 'A Short System of Physick - being notes taken from the lectures of Doctor Gregory Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh Volume 2'. It is arranged according to Gregory's classification of diseases by class, order and genus. The volume has an extensive contents list at the start which gives each 'genus' or disease. Includes Class 2 praeternatural evacuations order 1 haemorrhages, order 2 evacuations from the prima via, order 3 evacuations by the urinary passages; Class 3 palsies or paralytic diseases and debilities order 1 defect in the external organ of sense, order 2 debilities in the organs of sensation, order 3 loss of motion in the voluntary organs, order 4 debilities in the vital organs; class 4 spasmodic diseases; class 5 madness; class 6 cachexia; diseases of children; and diseases of women. |