| Description Of Item | The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: encampment in the Isle of Wight, England and expedition to the Rade des Basques, France in the year 1757; a general account of the diseases of the British troops during the expeditions to the coast of France and after their return to the Isle of Wight in the year 1758; diseases of the heart, palpitation, polypus etc including a diagram of the heart; fibres, muscles, muscular motion; fungus vesic [?]; stone, gravel, nephritis, heady water, diseases of the kidneys and bladder; native and expressed oils and mucilages; sulphur; myrrh; hydrocele; copper; lead; tin; observations upon drowning and recovering life; diet and digestion; diseases of old age and the regimen proper for that time of life; goat whey; poysons [poisons]; haemorrhoids; pestilential, jayl [jail] or hospital fever; yellow fever and black vomit of the West Indies; sublimate; diseases of infants and children; insensible perspiration, obstructions of it, sweating (as a remedy) sudorifics and diaphordics; rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica; diseases of the urethra, testicles, scrotum and of the hernia in the scrotum; angina gangraenosa sive maligna; angina maligna; squills; rachitis; diseases of the teeth; testacea and other absorbents; croup; parotids and other glands affected by acritical deposition; and air, respiration, the lungs.
Inserted at p203 is a letter to the London Chronicle on a case of children poisoned by eating deadly nightshade. Attached to p433 is a letter from Mr Strachey and another insert on goats' milk. Pages 144-149, 257-264 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 and places is at the rear. Dated from an entry on p506. |