| Description Of Item | In the first section, under each heading, Dobson gives examples of what Pringle had written on the subject and the folio numbers for the first three volumes only. She has not retained the original spellings. The subjects included are: dysentery; fevers; phthisis pulmonalis and haemoptoe; hectic heats, hectic and slow fevers; ulcerous sort throat; rheumatism; smallpox; sprains, luxations and contusions; diseases of the stomach and intestines; diarrhoea and lienteria; the use of mercury and mercurials; stone and gravel; haemorrhages; deafness and other diseases of the ear; ophthalmia; burns; of the nature of fire and in particular the heat of the human body; apoplexy and palsy; epilepsy; volatile and foetid antispasmodics; mania melancholia; diseases of the heart and circulation; erysipelas; cholera; tetanus, opisthotonos, emprosthotonos, locking of the jaws; lepra [leprosy], scurf, tetters and other foulnesses of the skin; dropsy; hydrocephalus; worms; ani morbi; hepatitis, jaundice, gallstones; diseases of breeding and lying-in women; diseases of infants and children; scrofula; remedies [in which she summarises a number of Pringle's sections on treatments]; and diseases of different climates.
In the second section she includes all the notes Pringle included by William and John Hunter from all ten volumes. At the end she includes biographical notes on John Freind, Richard Huck Saunders, Sir Edward Hulse, John Senac, Sir Robert Walpole and Robert Whytt.
There is a letter at the front of the file from Jessie Dobson to the Honorary Librarian of the College dated 25th April 1969. In it she explains the work she did on the first three volumes of Pringle's Medical Annotations with a further selection of any comments made by William and John Hunter from the later volumes. She also donates a copy of her notes to the library. A reply from the College Librarian is also included. |