| Description Of Item | The volume consists of a case note for each of the following conditions: cattarh, pleurisy, epilepsy, diarrhoea and haemoptoe (pp1-51). This is then followed by: 'Directions for Innoculating the Small Pox' by Andrew St Clair (pp52-69); 'Directions concerning Inoculation' by Dr Rutherford (pp70-71); 'Of the Venereal Disease' [pp72-106]; 'Of the Scurvy' (pp107-117); 'Of the fluor albus' (pp118-123); 'Of the Head-ach [ache]' (pp124-132); 'Of the Scrophula' (pp133-143); and 'Of the Epilepsy' (pp144-166). After the index at the rear are two treatments for piles, a recipe for cough mixture and one for tincture of squills. Although no author is given for the essays they are on the same subjects as those at RJO/3/1.
The other volumes in this series are much earlier. However, the cases are not the same as in the earlier volumes so it is not simply a later copy. It is possible that Rutherford kept lecturing until two years before he died. The student who took the notes is not known, nor is the location of volume 1. |