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Ref NoDEP/PRJ/3/1
TitleNotebook of Sir John Pringle
Datec1773
TermSmallpox
Dropsy
Paediatrics
Epilepsy
Scrofula
Digestion
Menstruation
Deafness
Physical disability
Cancer
Pertussis
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Diabetes
Ague
Description Of ItemThese are notes and references to his 'Medical Annotations'. Some entries are just references to the relevant volume and page of 'Medical Annotations' but others give additional information. Arranged into sections headed: General Rules for Health; ague; ancylosis; asthma; apoplexy and recent palsy; belly hard in children; blood (spitting of); burns; breath offensive; a bruise; cachexy; cancer; childblains and kibes; chincough or hooping cough; colds; cholera morbus; chopt lips; colic in children; colic bilious; colic habitual; colic (painter's); clyster; consumption; contusions, luxations; convulsions; corns; costiveness; cough from a cold; cough with inflammation of the lungs; violent coughing; cramp of the legs; a cut; deafness; diabetes; diarrhoea; dropsy; dysentery; ear ach; ears itching; eyes (inflammed); eruptions in children; eyes (specks); expectoration to promote in pulmonary inflammations; excoriation to prevent when threatened by constant lying in bed; face foul; falling sickness or epilepsy; fevers in general; flatulence with low spirits; fits hysteric or convulsive; flux white; fundament, itching of; ganglion; gout; gravel; gums spungy and bleeding; head-ach; heat of the blood and thirst; hiccup; hoarseness; jaundice; hypochondriasis; ileus; inquietude, restlesssness or fidgets; itch; leprosy; lameness; leanness; weakness of the legs in children; leprosy or impetigo; lecucophley matia; lethargy; lock jaw; looseness; lumbago; lunacy; menses obstructed; measles; menstruation; coagulated milk; mouth sore or excoriated; nerve wounded; nerves, weakness of; pain (inflammatory); palms of the hand hot; palpitations nervous; palsy of the arms; piles or haemorrhoids; pleurisy and peripneumony; quinsy; rupture; scald head; sciatica; scirrhouse glands; scurvy (marine); sea sickness; shin rubbed off; small pox; sores; sprains; stomach pain from an acid; stone in the bladder; strictures; swelled legs;swelled face from a rheum upon the teeth; swelling (white); toothach; thirst; tenesmus; thrush; torpor or numbness of the limbs; vertigo; ulcer; vomica; vomiting; urine (bloody); warts; watery gripes (in infants); whites; worms; contused worms; and wounds of the tendons. There is a supplement in the rear with additional headings and continuations from elsewhere in the book: stiff joynt or ancylosis; rheumatism; breeding sickness; fundament falling down; hysterics and female spasmodics; scrophula; sprains; and wax emulsion. There are also a number of other headings throughout for which no notes were entered.
Extent1 volume
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