| Description | Notes on lectures given by George Fordyce on the Practice of Medicine and the Natural History of the Human Body, taken by George French (volume 2). Page numbering continues from first volume. Pages 547-782 contains lectures on the practice of medicine, and is followed by a general index for volumes 1 and 2. There then follows on pages 1-138 (followed by an index of the subjects covered) a series of lectures given by George Fordyce in 1776 on the 'Natural History of the Human Body'.
Lectures on the practice of medicine (pp.547-782). Contents: History of Pregnancy (p.547), Abortion (p.554), Diseases in Pregnancy (p.565), History of Parturition (p.567), Management of Infants (p.574), Diseases of Infants (p.580), Worms (p.588), Aphthae (p.595), Chronic Diseases (p.596), History of Weakness (p.596), Treatment of Weakness (p.611), History of Menstruation (p.626), Diseases of the Menstrua (p.630), Spasmodic diseases (p.635), Hysteric disease (p.638), Epilepsy (p.643), Tetanus (p.656), Hiccups and Risus Sardonicus (p.661), Chorea Sancti Viti (p.662), Dropsy (p.663), Nephritis (p.693), Diabetes (p.705), Inoculation (p.707), Rheumatism (p.716), Apoplexy (p.726), Palsy (p.732), Temperaments (p.734), Mania (p.736), Gout (p.742), Haemorrhoids (p.746), Scurvy (p.747), Jaundice (p.756), Scrophula (p.763), Itch (p.768), Leprosy (p.770), Ringworm (p.771), Various Cutaneous Diseases (p.773), Conclusion (p.774).
'Doctor Geo. Fordyce's Lectures on the Natural History of the Human Body. London anno 1776. Taken by Geo French'. Contents include: Introduction (p.1), The Blood (p.3), The Serum (p.5), The Coagulable Lymph (p.11), The Red Particles (p.20), Superfluous Water and Extraneous Matters (p.22), Corruption and Alteration of the Juices (p.24), Food and Nourishment (p.30), Secreted Fluids (p.37), Insensible Perspiration (p.38), The Urine (p.43), The Milk (p.50), The Mucus (p.53), Saliva and Pancreatic Juice (p.55), Animal Solids (p.55), The Bile (p.57), The Blood Vessels (p.59), The Pulse (p.68), The Lungs (p.76), Exhalation and Absorption (p.79), Heat of the Body (p.87), Brain and Nerves (p.92), Sensibility, Irritability and Mobility (p.94), Sensibility (p.98), Mobility (p.103), Irritability (p.118), Habit and Custom (p.122), Quantity of Living Power (p.126), Of Sleep (p.129), Increase and Diminution of the Living Power (p.135). |