Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and experiments
By: communicated by Dr. Haller, and other eminent physicians, to the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. Translated from the Swedish original. Illustrated with copper plates
Publisher: Printed for A. Linde, P. Davey and B. Law, and J. Staples
Published: 1758
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: swe
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Medicine; Cases, clinical reports, statistics; Case studies; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Medical and chirurgical cases
Notes: Title-vignette; head and tail pieces; initials.

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Table of contents: title: Case I. A young man cured of a gutta serena, and lameness in his right arm and hand , by the use of emetics / published by Dr. Ewald Ribe, physician to his majesty; title: Case II. Osseous excrescence near the eye / by Dr. Sporing, Professor of Physic at Abo; title: Case III. A hasty and sudden death of a man, with the causes therof as they appeared on opening the body / by Dr. Sporing...; title: Case IV. Enquiry into the causes of the falling sickness in Schonen and Wernsharad / by M. Linnaeus, professor of Botany; title: Case V. Distemper called Borsten or the Bristles, very common among children in Finland / by Dr. Sporing...; title: Case VI. The effects of the Muscus Islandicus, called heath-moss, on a woman; from whose matrix came vast numbers of hydatides or aqueous vesicles / by Dr. Sporing...; title: Case VIII. Wonderful effect of camphyr in a lunatic / by Dr. Martin Triewald; title: Case VIII. A contagious distemper which raged in Upsal from September 1742 till May 1743 / by Mr. Nils Rosen.; title: Case * VIII. Woman in the city of Abo, with a dead foetus in her womb above thirteen years / by Dr. Sporing; title: Experiments on the bite of snakes and the degree of danger in them; title: Case IX. Two children of an uncommon small stature / by Mr. Samuel Sandel; title: Case X. A woman who imagined that she had a foetus of two years in her womb; and of the process by which she was relieved / by Herman Schutzen, Surgeon to his Majesty; title: Case XI. A woman from whom came a piece of Tetter-worm through an ulcer in the abdomen; title: Case XII. A disquisition conerning the tetter-worm / by Nils Rosen; title: Case XIII. Chirurgical experiments and observations relating to distempers in the eyes / by Charles Frederic Ribe. Experiments I and II; title: Case XIV. Experiment on the use of the seton in a cataract, occasioned by an intermitting fever / by Acrell; title: Experiment III. Remarks on critical tumors after a violent epidemic fever, which proved mortal upon opening them, but were removed by laxatives / by Ac; title: Experiment IV. Dissertation on anewly discovered skin or membrane found on the eyes of infants, both unvorn and new-born, whereby the pupil is closed / by Albert Haller; title: Experiment V. Experiment and remarks on a tumour of a divided spine; or Spina bifida as it is called by Acrell; title: Experiment VII. Large erosion in the tibia or shin-bone / by Hermann Schutzer; title: Experiment VII. The bloody flux which in 1743 raged in Helsingland / published by Olaus Bromann in Hudigswald, collected and presented by Abraham Back; title: Experiment VIII. An experiment on the Hooping Cough / published by Zachar J. Strandberg; title: Experiment IX. An a stone of five ounces weight adhering to the bladder / extracted by Herman Schutzer; title: Experiment X. An anasarca with a tumour of the scrotum and a gangrene happily cured / by John Rothman; title: Experiment XI. Symptoms of the stone in the bladder / by Abraham Back; title: Experiment XII. Hitherto unheard of hernia in the back / by Mr. Pepen, Professor of physic at; title: Experiment XIII. Method of preventing a sonfluent small pox; title: Experiment XIV. on the heart and liver of a foetus of eight months / by Justus Godfrey Gunz; title: Case XV. a violent pain in the hemi-cranium cured by opening the temporal artery / by Mr. Daniel Nisser; title: Case XVI. formation of bones in unusual parts of the human body / by Mr. Hallet; title: Case XVII. Description of a peasant born only with one leg / transmitted by Olof Acrell; title: Case XVIII. A description of a particular distemper at Aleppo/ Frederick Hasselquist; title: Case XIX. a dropsy cured after four tappings / Mr. Dassow; title: Case XX. The lobelia a certain remedy against the venereal disease / discovered by Peter Kalm; title: Case XXI. the root of the Sium aquaticum Fl. Suec. 2235 / by George Byersten; title: Case XXII. a consumption proceeding from the situation of the place / by Olof Soderberg; title: Case XXIII. opening a man's body who had been frequently tapped for a dropsy / sent by Ewald Ribe; title: Case XXIV. A Worm in the huma; title: Case XXVII. Cure of a fistula occasioned by a pessarium uterinum and which had pervaded the vagina uteri and the rectum / Herman Schutzer; title: Remarkable cases collected and given in by Olof Acrell; title: Case XXVIII. A grievous abscess without any previous inflammation; title: Case XXIX. A rupture in the omentum of a long standing and in a man of seventy years of age, cut and restored; title: Case XXX. A cure of a sarcocele in a young woman of ninteen years of age by Bandage; title: Case XXXI. A fistula in the neck with an opening into the oesophagus etc.; title: A short extract from Dr. John Lindhalt's journal of several disorders which were either abated or happily cured by ellectricity, at Stockholm in November or December, 1752; title: An account of the rattle-snake , and the cure of its bite as used in North America. By Peter Kalm.