Among the various doctors mentioned in the manuscript are the Italian biologist and physician Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), the French physician Jean-Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1685-1755) as well as a “M. Rohault”, perhaps the French philosopher, physicist and mathematician Jacques Rohault (1618-1672).
Mentioned numerous times in the manuscript, Helvétius was a member of the Académie royal des sciences, and he published works concerning anatomy, including lung function, as well as works on diseases, the most well-known being on smallpox. The last, unfinished section of the work is a copy of Helvétius’ work of the same title in the Mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences, 1718.
Given the theme of blood flow and circulation in the miscellany, the work was perhaps the notebook of a medical student.
[Bound after:] ANTONINI, Annibale. A Memorial of Paris and its neighbourhood for the use of Travellers by the Abbot Antonini. A New Edition, revised, corrected and augmented by the author. [Mémorial de Paris et de ses environs. Nouvelle edition, considérablement augmentee. (1749)].
Manuscript English translation of the work by Antonini, with some omissions and different orderings (the work itself was only ever published in French). In English in a clear, legible hand. One page torn, no loss. 182pp. C.1749.
The two works contained in the volume differ in subject matter and hand; the only link seeming to connect the two are the time period: 18th century.
