Skip to main content

Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever : together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology

Archive Print Item: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.2

Please note

This item is held off-site and must be pre-ordered before your visit. Please use the link to the printed items catalogue (below) to request this item. See the Access and usage section below for further details.

Details

Type of record: Book

Title: Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever : together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology

Level: Item

Classmark: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.2

Creator(s): Beddoes, Thomas (1760-1808)

Additional creator(s): Girtanner, Christoph (1760-1800) (Other); Woodhouse (Other)

Related people: Girtanner, Christoph; Woodhouse

Publisher: Printed for J. Murray

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1793

Language: English

Size and medium: xvi, 278 p., [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/168652

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010346379705181

Description

Includes two memoirs (p. 171-252) on the laws and on the principle of irritability, translated by Mr. Woodhouse from the French of Dr. Girtanner. The memoirs appeared originally in Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et sur les arts, 1790, vol. xxxvi, p. 422-440; vol. xxxvii, p. 139-154.

Access and usage

Access

This item is stored off site at Western Campus and must be ordered online using the 'Printed items catalogue' record link shown below. Store requests are processed each weekday morning and we aim to make items available within 48 hours. You will receive an email from Special Collections when the item is ready to consult in the Reading Room. The item will be held in Special Collections for 2 weeks.

Access to this material is unrestricted.

Request this item from the printed items catalogue (use 'request here')

Collection hierarchy

Visitor Basket

Ref No. Item Ref Title