| Description Of Item | Notes from or on: tetanus neonatorum; plague - London regulations and Marseilles; digitalis; Hercules Rollock; causes of plague; Riverius; trial of David Roy; Nathaniel Spens; cantharides; Sir Stuart Thriepland; mistletoe; Dodonaeus on foxglove; witchcraft (index gives a list of trials); tetanus; nephritis (Richard Bright); Digby on powder of sympathy; man midwives; plague (Robert Henryson); William Salmon; Captain Cook and marine hygiene (John Pringle); fires in folk lore; De Gubernatis; patron saints of disease; note from Purchas; midwives' oath; quarantine; Pepys vs Defoe on plague; Scots coal trade 17th century; amulets; De Re Venerea; book of the universal kirk; elk hoof; consent of St Catherine of Sienna; history of dropsy; Archibald Skeldie sermon on plague; Aubrey - the Guinea Man's Vade Mecum; and James M Adair 'Arguments against abolition of slave trade'. |