Old and variant spellings, like _surprising_ / _surprizing_, Buttermilk
/ _Butter-milk_, _Blood-vessels_ / _Blood-Vessels_, _Faltranc_ /
_Faltrank_, _wholesome_ / _wholsome_, _fetid_ / _foetid_, _public_ /
_publick_, _Physic_ / _Physick_, etc. have been preserved in the present
transcription.
In some cases of doubt, the present edition has been compared with scans
of the 1766 edition printed by Donaldson, which differs slightly in
setting, for instance having all names not capitalized, and corrects
many typographic mistakes.
Corrections listed in the Errata at the end of the book have been
carried into this transcription (excepting those which are not relevant
for the transcription, like those in running titles).
Typographic errors, occurring at the following pages and lines in the
original, have been corrected (negative numbers indicate lines from the
bottom of the page):
- *p. 23, note *, l. -6* their Druggs --> their Drugs
- *p. 29, l. 12* thorough Attentention --> thorough Attention
- *p. 39, l. 2* btutal Souls --> brutal Souls
- *p. 48, l. 12-13* thick, and and that --> thick, and that
- *p. 55, l. -5* increases our Horrour --> increases our Horror
- *p. 61, l. 3-4* deserves a Patients Confidence --> deserves a
Patient's Confidence
- *p. 62, l. 16* Drink and Glisters --> Drink and Glysters
- *p. 87, l. -8* the loosening Glyster No. 5 --> the loosening Glyster
No. 5
- *p. 106, l. 1* Inflammamations --> Inflammations
- *p. 148, l. 21-22* Perspiraration --> Perspiration
- *p. 182, l. 19* Applications N. 9 --> Applications No. 9
- *p. 189, l. 1* the Powder No. 29 --> the Powder No. 29
- *p. 223, note *, l. 4* without the least peceiveable --> without the
least perceiveable
- *p. 226, l. 17-18* Relax-tion --> Relaxation
- *p. 244, l. 4-5* Dis-seases --> Diseases
- *p. 261, l. 15* Haemmorrhages --> Haemorrhages
- *p. 283, l. 14-15* Pre-Precription --> Prescription
- *p. 344, note +, l. -2* _missing closing quote conjecturally
inserted after_ instead of stumming or sulphurizing it,'
- *p. 353, l. 1* stance constitutes --> Circumstance constitutes
- *p. 355, l. 18* not pregant --> not pregnant
- *p. 383, l. 6* the back Bart of the Head --> the back Part of the
Head
- *p. 485, l. 13* checks it Progress --> checks its Progress
- *p. 495, l. 19* strong swelling Herbs --> strong smelling Herbs
- *p. 506, l. 15* Weakness is an Obstable --> Weakness is an Obstacle
- *p. 506, l. 19* an Evacution supervenes --> an Evacuation supervenes
- *p. 525, l. -2,-1* Never-vertheless --> Nevertheless
- *p. 560, l. -7* Villians --> Villains
- *p. 573, l. 6* some Evacution --> some Evacuation
- *p. 608. l. -7* Temparrament --> Temperrament
- *p. 611, col. 2, l. 4* _Of a_ Diarrhaea --> _Of a_ Diarrhoea
So has been corrected the punctuation:
- *p. xxii, last line, note* published at _Lyons_. [missing period]
- *p. xxix, l. 10* _Infusion_ No. 1; [missing dot]
- *p. xxix, l. 13-14* Numbers 1. 2, and 4 --> Numbers 1, 2, and 4
- *p. 63, l. 15* of the Ptisans No. 1 [missing dot]
- *p. 84, l. -7, note* the Mixture, No. 10 [missing dot]
- *p. 88, l. 21* the purging Potion No. 11 [missing dot]
- *p. 89, l. 12* and drink plentifully of the Ptisan No. 2 [missing
dot]
- *p. 89, l. -7* should drink plentifully of the Ptisan No. 12
[missing dot]
- *p. 117, l. 12-13* or some of those Diet-Drinks No. 1, 2, 4; [dots
instead of commas]
- *p. 118, note *, l. 3* it in his late _Materia Medica._ K. [missing
period]
- *p. 173, l. -8* in Hunting in 1658. [additional comma]
- *p. 198, l. 16* 3. The Bites --> 3, The Bites
- *p. 203, note, l. 5* in many other Places. [missing period]
- *p. 231, note, l- 1* and the Note there. [comma instead of period]
- *p. 233, l. 10* sound and hearty Children). [missing period]
- *p. 265, l. -6* 12, As soon as the Distemper [period instead of
comma]
- *p. 320, last line of the note* or for suspending it. _K._ [missing
dot]
- *p. 371, l. 7* 2, An Inflammation [period instead of comma]
- *p. 531, l. -6* or wrong. [missing period]
- *p. 538, l. -9* Powder No. 20 [missing dot]
- *p. 601, first line of the note* The Prescriptions No. 54, 55, 56
[missing dot after No and periods instead of commas]
The footnotes, marked in the text mostly by asterisks, symbols and
alphabetic letters on a page by page basis, have been renumbered
progressively throughout the book. The footnote * on page 256 does not
appear to be referenced at any specific point on the printed page, and
has been treated as footnote to the last word of the paragraph.
Italics markup of abbreviations like _&c._, _K._, which was not always
consistent in the original, has been retained as printed.
The Greek letters _{alpha}_, _{beta}_, _{gamma}_ enumerating the
prescriptions of Sec. 214 have been replaced by the Latin letters _a_, _b_,
_c_ for better character set portability.