The Caledonian medical journal : new series, vol. VI, no. 2, October, 1904 / edited by W.A. Macnaughton and Andrew Little.

  • Caledonian Medical Society.
Date:
1904
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Credit: The Caledonian medical journal : new series, vol. VI, no. 2, October, 1904 / edited by W.A. Macnaughton and Andrew Little. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    words show not so much that they wrote from dictation, as that they copied by sound. Through the diligence and palseographic acumen ot Mr. Anderson, X have now secured an analysis of all the medical manuscripts in the Advocates Library collection. If it is your pleasure, this may, perhaps, appear in our Journal at some future time, but I should detain you far too long to-day if I were to attempt to read it to you in full on this occasion. I must content myself by indicating to you their character in a few instances. Thus, MS. No. II is a composite volume containing various MSS. of different sizes bound together, evidently by someone who was incapable of appreciating the contents. The vellum pages near the beginning, reversed in binding, are confused in arrangement and incomplete. They contain a treatise upon diseases arising from the condition of the blood and from the humours, upon fevers, the formation of bone, herbological and philosophical subjects. On paper, there is a treatise upon the renal secretion, sediments, effects of fever, &c. This is followed by twenty- five and a half leaves,turned upside down in binding, containing charms, a treatise on the veins, diseases of different parts of the year, philosophy, treatises on pregnancy, on fever, on astronomy, medical terms, natural philosophy, fevers, &c. Then a treatise on gout and its remedies (herbological syrups), prescriptions, poison. After this, a treatise on various diseases —shingles (“ cerculus ”), epilepsy (“ampulla”), gravel (arena), piles (?, pilus), scurf (“ furfura”), &c., &c. Then a passage on the treatment of the sick (Isidorus). Upon paper, right side up, is a treatise upon headache, toothache, rheumatism, worms, deafness, &c.; the treatment for a long list of diseases, including broken bones. The next medical subject is on vellum, of the “flux” of blood. Afterwards, the treatment of stoppages (?) of liver and spleen, of the “yellow sickness” (jaundice?), of dropsy, of “ cat chest ” (bronchitis ?), of diseases of the mouth, difficulty in breathing, and plague. Another treatise is on wounds and their healing, hydrophobia and its cure, and diseases of the breasts. There follows next a tract on the virtues of aqua vitae! Another on the treatment of diseases of the eyes, cataract, &c.; of the teeth, heart diseases, epilepsy, and coma. Later on we find a panegyric on Hippocrates, beginning * ^le ?arne W01’ds as will be found in Dr. Gillies’ paper dealing with a “ Gaelic Medical Manuscript of 1563,” in the