Millingen was an army surgeon at Waterloo and later ran an asylum, and this is his commonplace book of the profession: poisons and antidotes, somnambulism and hallucination, longevity, quackery, the plague, tarantism, the effects of climate and of music — several hundred short chapters, each on something he found worth recording.
A Regency doctor’s collection of everything odd in medicine. Download the free EPUB.