| Description Of Item | The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: obstinate cough; apoplexy, palsy and numbness; folia cicuta [Hemlock]; Jesuites bark; air, climates, diet, exercise; causes of contagious diseases; bread; of the pulse and crises in fevers; fixed alkaline salts and soap; blisters, issues, setons, sinapisms; and haemoptoe and vomiting of blood.
Inserted at p191 are three letters from Van Swieten dated 18th December 1760, 13th January 1762 and 20th July 1764 in Latin and English. Inserted at p494 an account of the state of the weather at Gibraltar in the month of September when influenza was at its height on board His Majesty's fleet, dated 1762; and an account of the epidemick cold that appeared in the town of Newcastle upon Tyne in the spring 1762 with further accounts in Latin by the physician to the Russian minister at Vienna and the physician to the King of Prussia. Inserted at p499 are two letters in French concerning taenia, dated 1762 and transcribed within the volume. Inserted at p521 is a letter from a physician in Marseilles concerning spa water, dated 1763. Pages 57-64 and 178-179 have been cut out. The volume is a draft copy with numerous amendments. The index of names and places is at the rear. Dated from an entry on p229. |