| Description Of Item | The volume is divided into short chapters headed: dysentery; mercury and mercurials; lues venerea; gonorrhoea virulenta; pharmaceutical observations; sprains, luxations and contusions; ileus or inflammatory colic; pregnantium and parturientium morbi; chalybeates; Peruvian bark; flatulence and carminatives; fevers in general; hiccup; rheumatism; small pox; apoplexy and palsy; hydrocephalus; ani morbi; hepatitis, jaundice, gallstones and other diseases of the liver; military fevers; epilepsy; hectic heats, hectic and slow fevers; haemoptoe and phthisis pulmonalis; turpentine; disorders of the stomach and intestines - worms, colics and fluxes excepted; diuretics; vertigo; dropsy; antimony and antimonials; diseases of the kidneys and bladder; diseases of breeding and lying-in women; volatile alkaline salts and spirits; setons and issues; blisters and sinapisms; bleeding, cupping etc; mineral and vegetable acids; ulcers and sores; plasters, ointments etc; cataplasms and fomentations; lime water; worms; virginian snakeroot; diseases of infants and children; struma or scrofula and other glandular tumours; ulcerous sore throat; erysipelas inflammation; lepra [leprosy], scurfs, tetters and other cutaneous foulnesses; and burns.
On the front flyleaf is a note by Pringle that he bequeaths the ten volumes of Medical Annotations to the library of the Royal College of Physicians, dated 21st February 1780. Dated from entry p18. |