Commonplace book

Strange events, accidents and phenomena: with other historical occurrences worth observation. Pp. 63-72 'Paradoxes in physick and anatomy'. The date 1732 is found on p. 11 and 1742 on p. 74. An entry on p. 3, dated 1771 seems to be by a different hand. Produced in Oxford. Compiler copied from other sources down contemporary events and ideas of note. The Index of the book reads:
A Vampyre in Hungary
A Girl Possessed
A Cameleon
Miracles
Artifical Rarities
Longevity
Aptness (instances of it)
Moliere (His Plays)
To preserve memory & procure long-life
The Spaniard's devotion
Erroneous opinions, superstition, customs etc
Painting
Fire-Ordeal
Vulgar Errors
Instances of Superstition
Physick
Paradoxes & Prodigies in Phsick & Anatomy
Mineralogy
Grammar
Geography (Paradoxes herein)
Optics
Dreams
An Extraordinary Sleepy Person
4 men living on Water for 4 days
A Ruminating Man
Remarkable Sayings
Strange customs
Tragedy - an account of it
Pedantry, what it is

1732-1742

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.) + 127 pp. + 2 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 15 × 10 cm. Original vellum covers with flap and clasp.

Purchased 1924.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).