| Description Of Item | Alison has given references and rough notes under the following headings (where they can be deciphered): 'On provision for erect posture'; 'Order for lectures on inflammation'; 'Notes for Clinical Lectures'; 'Of Phthisis - General Outlines'; 'Diseases in which the blood is manifestly altered'; 'Essential Peculiarities of Scrofulus Habits'; 'Essential Peculiarities of Tubercles'; and 'Argument against the excessive punishment of the sin of incontinence in women'. From the reverse he has used the book to note doctors' addresses; anatomical illustrations giving plate numbers in an unspecified work; and notes on visits to hospitals in London in 1828. |