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Manuscript book containing medical essays translated from the French. Included are essays on "rhumes or colds"; on rheumatism; on the effects of tobacco; on the movements of the body; on sleep and watchfulness; on the passions; on aliments; on drinks; on cold and its effects; on means of recalling to life persons reduced to a state of numbness by cold; on the effects of drunkenness; and on costiveness. The book is signed on the inside cover by David Clapp Jr. and dated April 1827. Less