Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Reprint of Two Tracts 1. An essay on gleets. 2. An enquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of a singular disease of the eyes

Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793; Bailey, James Blake, -1897 [Editor]· 3 chapters· 8,878 words

Both of the tracts are exceedingly rare. Speaking of the former one, Mr. Morse Stephens, in his article on “Marat” in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_,[1] says, “no copy is to be found.” Since the date of Mr. Stephens’s notice of Marat a copy has come to light, and is now in the...

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1. Part 1

Both of the tracts are exceedingly rare. Speaking of the former one, Mr. Morse Stephens, in his article on “Marat” in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_,[1] says, “no copy is to be f...

2. Part 2

From _Paris_ the patient came over to _London_, his place of abode. Anxious to be cured, he applied to an eminent surgeon, (whom it would not be candid to name) who for eighteen...

3. Part 3

The Patient daily gathering strength, I was no longer apprehensive of any bad Effect from Bleeding, and accordingly had him bled. Suffumigations and Pultises were continued thre...