The Caledonian medical journal : new series, vol. VI, no. 2, October, 1904 / edited by W.A. Macnaughton and Andrew Little.

  • Caledonian Medical Society.
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1904
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    of the MSS. which Professor Mackinnon has been good enough to lend me, and which I have here to show you, as well °as the Crawford MS., whose headings are translated and published by Whitley Stokes in the Academy (16th May, 1896, pp. 405-407).1 A very similar pharmacopoeia is con- tained in MS. LX of the Advocates’ collection, as we shall see presently. MS. X is well written upon ten large leaves. It is a treatise on disease, fevers, diet, &c., &c., compiled from Hippocrates, Galen, Rhases, Isidorus, Isaac, Averroes, Serapion, John of Damascus, Aristotle, and the “Commentators.” Their opposing views are discussed (see Plate V). MS. XII contains twenty-one large leaves. The ink is somewhat faded, except upon six leaves. The first five folios contain, in the upper part, a calendar; in the lower part, a treatise on anatomy-—bones, parts of the face, the neck, the shoulder blades, the fore-arm, the sinews. Folios six and seven deal with natural history. From folio eight to the end is philosophical and physiological, containing a treatise on the senses, &c. (see Plate VI). MS. XIII is composite, containing parts of different MSS., amounting in all to thirty-eight leaves. It is well written throughout. The first MS. has several illuminated initials. It is a treatise on medical subjects, abstract and practical, including chapters upon treatment of the sick, the diverse temperaments, heredity, sight and smell, comparison of the mind and the temperaments, with members, the liver and stomach, the greater deadliness of warm than of cold diseases, the use of medicine, especially with regard to the different temperaments; the occasions when no food or medicine should be given to the sick, chronic diseases, convalescence, the different climates, advice to doctors, the treatment of paralytics, &c., &c. Reference is made to Isidorus chiefly, and also Damascenus, Seneca, “ Salumon Legere,” Aristotle, Averroes, Galen, “ An- tadur,” Avicenna, Apollonius. The second MS. (in XIII) is even more contracted than usual. The photograph (Plate VII) shows some illustrations of these contractions. Its contents purport to be general medicine, and the distinctions between its parts. It treats of medicine, practical and theoretical, but is incomplete. Reference is made to Galen and Isaac, also to Aristotle, Averroes, Senmora. The third MS. (in XIII) is incomplete at both ends. It is c neny derived from Hippocrates, and has some paragraphs I have to thank Professor Mackinnon for this reference. C