| Description Of Item | The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: spasms, convulsions and tetanus; chronic eruptions, prickly heat, essere [?], nettle rash; creme of tartar; hypochondriacal, hysterical and other nervous disorders; coffee; roborantia (sive tonica) and relaxantia; difficulty of deglutition from disorders in the oesophagus; cephalalgia, hemicrania, vertigo; plasters, ointments, liniments; tea; archigenes and the electics and pneumatisis[?]; Asclepiades; Oribasius; Hippocratus; Aëtius; senekae; cardamine; rabius canina; the scurvy, morphew and other foulness or eruptions on the face; musk; catoreum; and manner of living of the Bedouins or wandering Arabs (p631).
Inserted at p73 is a copy of The Maryland Gazette with an article on malignant fever dated 1764. Inserted at p85 is a letter from Thomas Dundas on the case of Lord Hope, dated 1767 at Charleston, South Carolina. Inserted at p129 is a printed advertisement for Dr Robert James's powder for fevers. Inserted at p153 is a copy of The London Chronicle with an article on sea bathing, dated 1769. Inserted at p478 is a letter from Jersey concerning a case note, dated 1770. Inserted at p594 a letter from Van Swieten dated 1768. Inserted at p600 printed 'Directions for administering the medicine that cures fluxes in His Majesty's Navy'. Inserted at p629 printed articles on curing bites from mad dogs. Pages 163-164, 191-194, 217 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 p415. |