This encyclopedia of popular medical practice lists common diseases and treatments. The pages are interleaved with manuscript notes by an unnamed reader who contrasts John Elliot’s recommendations with information culled from an English translation of John Brown’s Elementa medicinae—probably the edition printed in London in 1795. Excerpt from John Elliot's 1784 The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body.... showing the interleaved manuscript pages
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