| Description Of Item | The majority of the papers are not dated. Contains: 'Some useful hints for my Introductory Lecture may be collected from the enclosed sketch', March 1817; index to the diseases of infancy and childhood; notes on various diseases, their symptoms and treatment including epilepsy, dyspepsia, pertussis and palpitation; notes on the problem of loss of sensation in the fingers written by James Mackenzie, late serjeant 3rd R N Batallion, Edinburgh Castle; description of the aboriginal tribes of New South Wales; notes on obstetrics and the diseases of children, c1820; notes on human physiology; pages 15-188 (with pages missing) of references to cases, experiments and diseases cited in other medical texts (with in reverse an index very similar to the one on an item at HAL/2/1/12), c1815; and pages 1-7 of an article on the movement of the heart written on the reverse of an earlier article on the same subject possibly part of his translation of Haller. |