Observations on the dropsy in the brain
By: by Robert Whytt ... to which are added his other treatises never hitherto published by themselves
Series: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine--Medical Heritage Library digitization project
Publisher: Printed for John Balfour
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Brain; Diseases; Lime; Opium; Electrotherapeutics; Blisters; Ulcers; Epidemics; Mercury; Hydrocephalus
Notes: Contains also his An account of some experiments made with opium on living and dying animals; An essay on the various strength of different lime-waters; An instance of the electrical virtue in the cure of palsy, by Mr. Patrick Brydone [and] Extract of a letter from Dr. Whytt to Dr. Pringle, relating to this account; Cases of the remarkable effects of blisters in lessening the quickness of the pulse in coughs attended with infarction of the lungs and fever; an account of an epidemic distemper at Edinburgh ... in the autumn of 1758; extracts of several letters to Dr. Pringle, relating to the use of the sublimate, in the cure of phagedaenic ulcers.

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ESTC T9374

Garrison-Morton, 4634

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 4634

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 488

ESTC (RLIN) T9374
Table of contents: title: Observations on the dropsy in the brain; title: An account of some experiments made with opium on living and dying animals (first published in the Edinburgh physical and literary essays); title: An essay on the various strength of different lime-waters (first published in the Edinburgh essays physical and literary); title: A letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch ... from Dr John Pringle (first published in the Phil. Trans. and read December 15. 1757); title: Postscript to Dr Whytt's observations on Lord Walpole's case; title: Some observations on the lithontriptic virtue of the Carlsbad waters, lime-water, and soap; title: An instance of the electrical virtue in the cure of a palsy (by Patrick Brydone); title: Extract of a letter from Dr Whytt to Dr Pringle relating to this account; title: Cases of the remarkable effects of blisters in lessening the quickness of the pulse in coughs attended with infarctions of the lungs and fever (first published in the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 50, Part 2); title: Extract of a letter from Dr Whytt to Dr Pringle on the effects of blisters; title: An account of an epidemic distemper at Edinburgh, and several other parts in the south of Scotland, in the autumn of 1758, in a letter to Dr Pringle (first published in vol. 2 of the London Medical Observations and Inquiries, in the year 1762); title: Extracts of several letters to Dr Pringle, relating to the use of the sublimate, in the cure of phagedaenic ulcers.