Commonplace-book, 1711-1727.

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Commonplace-book, 1711-1727.

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Commonplace-book kept by Thomas Robie, Harvard tutor and later a physician, from 1711-19. The entries are chiefly medical, noting recipes, catalogs of diseases and their treatments, and extensive notes on common maladies, including smallpox. Other entries include notes on astronomy with astronomical observations (1714-17), history, physics, predestination, and weather.

1 vol. in a case.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Robie, Thomas, 1689-1729

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Thomas Robie (1688/89-1729) of Boston, Mass., was a 1708 Harvard graduate. A man of varied talents, Robie pursued several callings, including almanac-maker, Harvard library-keeper, preacher, mathematics and astronomy tutor, and physician. From the description of Diary, 1710. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207167061 ...