| RefNo | AP/9/13/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'A treatise on diarrhoea asthenica' by S [Samuel] Hood |
| Date | [1819] |
| Description | Hood recounts a disease seen in India that he refers to as diarrhoea asthenica, or spasmodic cholera, usually appearing annually around the beginning of the monsoon season. Hood discusses symptoms of the disease and possible treatments. Corrections appear throughout in graphite.
Subject: Medicine
Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read to the Royal Society 4 May 1820. |
| Extent | 28p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | AP/9/13 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |