Notebook of Jonathan Bliss, 1723-1724.

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Notebook of Jonathan Bliss, 1723-1724.

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This notebook contains Jonathan Bliss's notes on medical practice; the notebook was kept by Bliss in 1723 and 1724. The volume contains excerpts from the following prominent 17th and 18th century medical texts: Giorgio Baglivi's, The practice of physick; Ysbrand van Diemerbroeck's Anatome corporis humani; and Thomas Fuller's Pharmacopoeia extemporanea among others. The excerpts teach the medical theory of humorism, and occasionally include direct quotes from Hippocrates and Galen. They also describe numerous common medical problems and diseases from apoplexy and cancer to toothache and wounds, and also include treatments. The treatments usually include instructions for preparing herbal or other compounds as prescriptions, naming many ingredients from mercury to spearmint to vinegar. Often the excerpts feature "clinical" case studies of a patient with the relevant problem, and testify to the effects of the recommended treatments. It is believed Bliss lived in the United States at the time he kept the notebook; perhaps Massachusetts.

1 volume, 17 cm., 287 pages.

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