Description:
Copybook with brown paper cover and bound with string, inscribed with title 'Diætæ pars continens Potus et Evacuantia lectæ ano 1761 termino vernali'
Annotations by Linnaeus fil. from Linnaeus pater's lectures on diet, relating to drink ('Potus') and purging ('Evacuantia').
References in the margins are made to later works, and notes were added as late as 1777.
Contents:
f. i-viii: Pencil annotations on dietetics, on octavo paper.
f. 1: POTUS
ff. 2-6: On water
ff. 7-10v: Wine
ff. 10v: Cider
ff. 11v-: Beer
ff. 12v-15v: Fresh and sweet drinks
ff. 15v-20: Brandy and other spirits
ff. 21-26r: Drunkeness ('Inebriantia')
ff. 26v-28r: Opium and other herbal drugs
ff. 28v-32r: Tobacco
ff. 32v-35r: Coffee
ff. 35v-38: Tea
ff. 39-40: Chocolate
ff. 41-42r: Heat
f. 42v: Cold
f. 43-: Purging ('Evacuantia'), excretions
ff. 43v-45r: Bowels
f. 45: Wind
f. 46: Saliva
f. 47: Urine
f. 48: Sweat, hemorrhoids, menstruation
f. 49: Bloodletting
f. 50: Skin erutpions
ff. 51-56r: Sex and love
ff. 56v-58v: Facies
f. 58v: Castration
ff. 59-62: Notes on intercourse and facies, but in another hand than Linnaeus fil.
Title:
'Diaetae pars continens Potus et Evacuantia'
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1741-1783