| Description Of Item | Gordon has followed Pringle's arrangement and listed the articles under the headings general subjects, diseases and diet and medicines. For each one he has given an index code, the title, a database code, the volume and folio number and the name of the correspondent where relevant. For the articles that Pringle grouped as names and places, Gordon gives brief biographical details, the database code for the article and the volume and folio number. He gives cross references by his different codings towards the end of the book. At the rear he gives 'Dr William Cullen's Synopsis of his Nosology' which shows Cullen's classification of diseases. |