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Ref NoDEP/CUL/5/6
Title'First Lines on the Practice of Physic for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh', volume 4 by William Cullen
Date1784
TermDropsy
Digestion
Diabetes
Mental illness
Description Of ItemPart II - 'Of Neuroses or Nervous Diseases' contains: Book III 'Of Spasmodic Affections' consisting of chapters 8-14: 'Of the pyrosis or what is named in Scotland the water brash', 'Of the colic', 'Of the cholera', 'Of diarrhoea or looseness', 'Of the diabetes', 'Of hysteria or the hysteric disease' and 'Of canine madness and hydrophobia'; Book IV 'Of Vesaniae or the disorders of the intellectual functions' consisting of three chapters: 'Of Vesaniae in general', 'Of Mania or Madness' and 'Of Melancholy and other forms of Insanity'. Part II - 'Of Cachexies' contains: 'Book I 'Of Emaciations'; 'Book II 'Of Intumescentiae or general swellings' consisting of four chapters: 'Of Adipose Swellings', 'Of Flatulent Swellings', 'Of Watery Swellings or dropsies', 'Of General Swellings arising from an increased bulk of the whole substance of particular parts' and 'Of Rachitis or rickets'. Index to the four volumes at the rear.
Extent1 volume
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