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Manuscript on Paper, British Medical. Two quarto format manuscripts on laid paper, possibly Scottish, dated 1774, one recounting case histories of patients, with diagnoses and treatments in detail, stab sewn consisting of approximately forty pages, physician's notes, fragmentary, in several hands; [together with] another stab sewn collection of notes on laid paper recording basic medical information, defintions of diseases, sicknesses, and syndromes, consisting of approximately twenty pages, fragmentary, each measuring approximately, 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
"As I was deliberating the opthalmia, it seemed to go away & another disease that occupied our attention supervened; the form of it was somewhat singular and it sometimes puzzled me how to judge of it. I thought it was probably owing to cold, for the symptoms were such as commonly proceed from cold. He complained of soreness all over his body with cough and difficultly breathing."
