Description Of Item | The subjects included are: 'Moving Fibres', 'Of the Nervous System', 'Communication by means of the Brain', 'Laws of the Circulation', 'Recapitulation of the Action of the Heart and Arteries', 'Respiration', 'Natural Functions', 'Physiology - Nutrition', 'Of Nutrition', 'Of Secretion', 'Pr L [Primus Lecture? - only dated item], 'Generation', 'Chemical System' and 'Institutions of Medicine'. After this comes a series of numbered lectures on the origin of medicine. Lecture I (blank), Lecture II-IV, VI-XVI, XVII-XXII, XXX (badly damaged), XXXII-XXXIII, XXXV, XLIII-XLIV. Then come two further versions of 'Institutions', one dated 17th November 1766. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'. |