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Ref NoDEP/CUL/2/1/3
TitleWilliam Cullen's lectures on materia medica, volume 2
Date20 Jan 1764
TermEmetic
Laxative
Bloodletting
Poison
Description Of ItemThe sections are: 'Medical Virtues of Sulphur and Alcohol', 'External Medicines', 'Specific Purgatives', 'Of Drinks', 'Of the More Universal Remedies', 'Evacuations', 'Nutrients', 'Therapeutics Stimulants', 'Sedatives', 'Sedantia', 'The Means of Preventing or Curing Diseases', 'Methodus Medendi [in Latin and English]', 'Therapeutice [various forms - astringentia, emollientia, sedantia, blood letting etc]', 'Astringents', 'Corrosives', 'Hygiene', 'P L [the only dated section], 'Of Particular Aliments', 'Antacida', 'Blood letting', 'Emetics', 'Purgatives', 'Emmenagoga [Emmenagogue]', 'Of Poisons' and 'Calculus'. At the rear of the volume are lists of drugs. Two inserted notes in the volume which may not be contemporary read 'Do not these correspond with the notes in the printed copy of the syllabus?' and 'Notes of Therapeutical Lectures for an entire session'. It should be noted that not all the sections have obvious headings and some may have been missed. Because the volume consists of separate note the date range will almost certainly be wider than the one dated item. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'.
Extent1 volume
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