Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 924

ROBERT WHYTT (1714-1766) The works. Printed for . . . Balfour 1786 [6] viii, 262 (misnumbered 762) [29] pp. 26.8 cm.

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The present work was prepared by Whytt's son, Robert, and was published two years after his father's death. In addition to the previous treatise, the book contains some twelve additional monographs and papers as well as an appendix containing several letters relating to ulcers and an account of an epidemic of distemper in Edinburgh in 1758. Among the collection are his noteworthy Essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals (1751) in which he described reflex action in the pupil of the eye, as well as Observations on the dropsy in the brain (1768) which gives the first account of the clinical course of tuberculous meningitis in children.

Cited references: Cushing W179; Russell 865