| Description Of Item | The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: watchfulness, sleep, opiates and calmers and antispasmodics; chronic obstructions, aperients or deobstruents; angina inflammatoria; cancers, ulcers mali moris and sores of difficult cure; acids and coolers; astringents, styptics; scorbutic sores on the legs; sternutatories; perniones, kibes; tumours; sea and marsh scurvy; Bristol water; scirrhous; ancylosis; gangrene or mortification; septics, antiseptics, putrefaction, putrid disorders, foul air; theories and experiments upon the brain - nerves, spasms, convulsions etc; bleeding, cupping etc; measles; fluor albus and gonorrh [gonorrhoea] non virulenta; colica pictonum; diabetes; malum hystericum and hypochondriacum; languour of the fibres and stimulants; and diet in acute diseases.
Pages 66-71, 189, 193, 358-359, 408 and 422 have been cut out. The volume is a draft copy with numerous amendments. There is an extra index to additional articles at the front and the index of names is at the rear after which is a continuation of hectic heats, hectic and slow irregular fevers from p145. Dated from an entry on p144. |