Commonplace Book

Date:
c. 1810-1840
Reference:
MS.8894
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Commonplace Book. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Literary Diary, or, Improved Common-Place-Book printed in London, 1811. With Table of subjects and an index

2 inserted manuscript drafts of a letter to the "Editors of the Pharmaceutical Times" on the subject of Water Casting and its relationship to herbalism in some parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, prompted by the case of William Warburton and the case of the Warrington Poisoning. Mention is made of a sign board in observed in Leeds some 30 years previously. "Although water casting is now pursued only by extremely low and ignorant persons, it has its origin in regular practice".

Contains notes, extracts, etc, on a variety of subjects, general, scientific, and medical

pp 30 - 37Elocution and Public Speaking,

pp 39 - 60 deal with medical topics including Iodine, Marshall Hall's experiments in capillary circulation, Tartrate of Iron, Hysterical Epilepsy, Opium, Remarks on Cholera, H Cline's lecture on the teeth, Ophthalmia

pp 70 - 72 also deal with medical matters including Gout

pp 76 - 78 notes on Phrenology

pp 79 -80 Cholera

p 90 "Japanese cement, or rice glue"

pp 101 - 104 miscellaneous cases

p 115 "Hints for the management of young children" (from a pamphlet by Dr Davis)

p 133 Urinary calculi

p 135 Heights of mountains

pp 169, 177, List of Books

Publication/Creation

c. 1810-1840

Physical description

1 volume 179pp (many blank) , 20 x 25 x 3 cm, half-calf, marbled boards, spine missing

Acquisition note

Purchased from A R Heath Manuscript and Rare Book Dealer in April 2013

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of the Cover to Cover digitisation project.

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  • 1982