Transcription note
Old and variant spellings, like surprising / surprizing, [Buttermilk] / Butter-milk, Blood-vessels / Blood-Vessels, Faltranc / Faltrank, wholesome / wholsome, fetid / fœtid, public / publick, Physic / Physick, etc. have been preserved in the present transcription.
In some cases of doubt, the present edition has been compared with scans of the 1766 edition printed by Donaldson, which differs slightly in setting, for instance having all names not capitalized, and corrects many typographic mistakes.
Corrections listed in the [Errata] at the end of the book have been carried into this transcription (excepting those which are not relevant for the transcription, like those in running titles).
Typographic errors, occurring at the following pages and lines in the original, have been corrected (negative numbers indicate lines from the bottom of the page):
- p. 23, note *, l. -6 their Druggs —> [their Drugs]
- p. 29, l. 12 thorough Attentention —> [thorough Attention]
- p. 39, l. 2 btutal Souls —> [brutal Souls]
- p. 48, l. 12-13 thick, and and that —> [thick, and that]
- p. 55, l. -5 increases our Horrour —> [increases our Horror]
- p. 61, l. 3-4 deserves a Patients Confidence —> [deserves a Patient's Confidence]
- p. 62, l. 16 Drink and Glisters —> [Drink and Glysters]
- p. 87, l. -8 the loosening Glyster No. 5 —> [the loosening Glyster Nº. 5]
- p. 106, l. 1 Inflammamations —> [Inflammations]
- p. 148, l. 21-22 Perspiraration —> [Perspiration]
- p. 182, l. 19 Applications N. 9 —> [Applications Nº. 9]
- p. 189, l. 1 the Powder No. 29 —> [the Powder Nº. 29]
- p. 223, note *, l. 4 without the least peceiveable —> [without the least perceiveable]
- p. 226, l. 17-18 Relax-tion —> [Relaxation]
- p. 244, l. 4-5 Dis-seases —> [Diseases]
- p. 261, l. 15 Hæmmorrhages —> [Hæmorrhages]
- p. 283, l. 14-15 Pre-Precription —> [Prescription]
- p. 344, note †, l. -2 missing closing quote conjecturally inserted after [instead of stumming or sulphurizing it,’]
- p. 353, l. 1 stance constitutes —> [Circumstance constitutes]
- p. 355, l. 18 not pregant —> [not pregnant]
- p. 383, l. 6 the back Bart of the Head —> [the back Part of the Head]
- p. 485, l. 13 checks it Progress —> [checks its Progress]
- p. 495, l. 19 strong swelling Herbs —> [strong smelling Herbs]
- p. 506, l. 15 Weakness is an Obstable —> [Weakness is an Obstacle]
- p. 506, l. 19 an Evacution supervenes —> [an Evacuation supervenes]
- p. 525, l. -2,-1 Never-vertheless —> [Nevertheless]
- p. 560, l. -7 Villians —> [Villains]
- p. 573, l. 6 some Evacution —> [some Evacuation]
- p. 608. l. -7 Temparrament —> [Temperrament]
- p. 611, col. 2, l. 4 Of a Diarrhæa —> [Of a Diarrhœa]
So has been corrected the punctuation:
- p. xxii, last line, note [published at Lyons.] [missing period]
- p. xxix, l. 10 [Infusion Nº. 1;] [missing dot]
- p. xxix, l. 13-14 Numbers 1. 2, and 4 —> [Numbers 1, 2, and 4]
- p. 63, l. 15 [of the Ptisans Nº. 1] [missing dot]
- p. 84, l. -7, note [the Mixture, Nº. 10] [missing dot]
- p. 88, l. 21 [the purging Potion Nº. 11] [missing dot]
- p. 89, l. 12 [and drink plentifully of the Ptisan Nº. 2] [missing dot]
- p. 89, l. -7 [should drink plentifully of the Ptisan Nº. 12] [missing dot]
- p. 117, l. 12-13 [or some of those Diet-Drinks Nº. 1, 2, 4;] [dots instead of commas]
- p. 118, note *, l. 3 [it in his late Materia Medica. K.] [missing period]
- p. 173, l. -8 [in Hunting in 1658.] [additional comma]
- p. 198, l. 16 3. The Bites —> [3, The Bites]
- p. 203, note, l. 5 [in many other Places.] [missing period]
- p. 231, note, l- 1 [and the Note there.] [comma instead of period]
- p. 233, l. 10 [sound and hearty Children).] [missing period]
- p. 265, l. -6 [12, As soon as the Distemper] [period instead of comma]
- p. 320, last line of the note [or for suspending it. K.] [missing dot]
- p. 371, l. 7 [2, An Inflammation] [period instead of comma]
- p. 531, l. -6 [or wrong.] [missing period]
- p. 538, l. -9 [Powder Nº. 20] [missing dot]
- p. 601, first line of the note [The Prescriptions Nº. 54, 55, 56] [missing dot after Nº and periods instead of commas]
The footnotes, marked in the text mostly by asterisks, symbols and alphabetic letters on a page by page basis, have been renumbered progressively throughout the book. The footnote * on page [256] does not appear to be referenced at any specific point on the printed page, and has been treated as footnote to the last word of the paragraph.
Italics markup of abbreviations like &c., K., which was not always consistent in the original, has been retained as printed.