Annals of medical history . ction he enjoyed in hiding his own deformitiesfrom himself. I was also present at the original formationor production of a certain book in the mind of aFree-thinker, and believing it may be notunacceptable to let you into the secret mannerand internal principles by which that phenome-non was formed, I shall in my next give you anaccount of it. I am, in the mean time. Your most obedient humble servant, Ulysses Cosmopolita. AN UNIQUE ENGRAVING The accompanying engraving is the fron-tispiece to Andreas Hiitters Fiinfzig Chir-urgische Observationen, Rostock, 1718. So fa
Annals of medical history . ction he enjoyed in hiding his own deformitiesfrom himself. I was also present at the original formationor production of a certain book in the mind of aFree-thinker, and believing it may be notunacceptable to let you into the secret mannerand internal principles by which that phenome-non was formed, I shall in my next give you anaccount of it. I am, in the mean time. Your most obedient humble servant, Ulysses Cosmopolita. AN UNIQUE ENGRAVING The accompanying engraving is the fron-tispiece to Andreas Hiitters Fiinfzig Chir-urgische Observationen, Rostock, 1718. So far as we know it is the first pictorialrepresentation of a military camp hospital. The surgeon wears the characteristic uni-form of the army surgeon of the late seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries. His coat,known as the justaucorps, is a garmentwhich came to be the habitual costume ofthe practicing physician of the eighteenthcentury. A couple of bearers transporting a patienton a litter, are also well shown in the CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor: The classical description of angina pec-toris was first given by \MIIiani Heberden(1710-1801) in 1768, but the first descrip-tion of the symptoms of this interesting dis-ease are recorded by the Earl of Clarendonin his Memoirs, where he describes theseizures and sudden death of his father. This description is of great interest and ishere reproduced as given in the Memoirs: Some months after he was married, he wentwith his Wife to wait upon his Father andMother at his house at Pirton, to make themsharers in that satisfaction which thej- had solong desired to see, and in which they tookgreat delight. His Father had long sufferedunder an indisposition (even before the timehis Son could remember) which gave him ratherfrequent pains than sickness; and gave himcause to be terrified with the of thestone, without being exercised with the presentsense of it; but from the time he was fifty yearsof age, it increased very much
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