| Description Of Item | The volume is divided into short chapters headed: haemorrhoids; soap and fixed alkaline salts; neutral salts; astringents; opiates; small pox; asthma; Peruvian bark; gout; ophthalmia; colds, coughs and pectorals; phthisis pulmonalis and haemoptoe; hemorrhages and floodings; tussis convulsiva; measles; gangrene or mortification; menses and chlorosis; diseases of infants; white swelling; convulsive disorders; sea and marsh scurvy; hysterical hypochondriacal and other nervous disorders; thermae warm bath and vapour bath; sternatatories; lepra [leprosy], scurf, tetters; syncope; epidemic fever and dysentery in Franche Comté; and dysentery. There are far fewer cross references to previous volumes.
The volume is a draft copy with amendments. There is no index to diet and medicines and the index of names and places is at the rear. Dated from an entry on p85. |