| Description Of Item | Front flyleaf inscribed 'M Francis St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1846'. Lecture notes up to page 42. From pp43-79 'On the Observance of Method in conducting Post-Mortem Examinations especially when they are intended for Legal Purposes' by H Letheby, from The Lancet, 1846. From 79 are prescriptions, receipts and notes including American whitewash; table of French measures; M Devergie's ointment for chilblains; ammonia as a vesicant; Godfrey's cordial; phosphorus paste for destroying rats; diet table on board the hospital convict ships at Woolwich, 1847; decoctum aloes compositum by R W Westall; On the luxation of the semilunar cartilages by J P Vincent; Alphabet of auscultation by George Carpe; New Adhesive Fluid invented by John Maynard, Medical Gazette, 1848; On some improvements in the voltaic battery by Dr Wright; Protection from Pestilence, from Dr Copland's Dictionary of Medicine; The Voice by Signor Lahlache; An Almond Oil as a substitute for cod-liver oil by Dr Duncan, Colchester Hospital, 1850; Dr Marshall Hall's method for restoring the asphyxiated from drowning, The Lancet, 1856; copy of a letter on arsenical musilage in the treatment of cancer; Insanity - Dr Hammond of the United States; composition of metropolitan waters, 1873; recipe for Bengal chutney and Mr Hartley's pickling liquid; pasted cutting on recipes for vegetarians; pasted cutting on Lodon smells; and pasted cutting on a man charged with drunkenness asking to see a doctor to ascertain his guilt, 1882. Includes throughout the volume loose hand-drawn anatomical diagrams with captions of the graafian vesicle (p67), ovarium, side view of pelvis and male urethra; and at the rear of the volume further recipes for prescriptions, a cutting on the character of servants and a recipe for furniture polish. |