Variations in the Pulse, by Charles Darwin (d.1778)

On page 264 is the following note: "This very excellent paper on ye. pulse was written by ye late Mr. Charles Darwin of Litchfield, Studt. of Medicine here, who died about a month after it was read in ye. Society most justly regretted by every well wisher to Medical Inquiry as a young man of ye. most promising Talents, & extensive knowledge both in Medicine & in sevl. oyr. branches of Science-He died May 15th 1778 of a fever."

1778

pp. 197-263

Charles Darwin (d.1778) was the son of the physician and author Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802).

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).