Boyle Papers Volume 18

Extent: 134 folios
Date: Late 17th century
Description: Folio-size volume; foliated September 1986, replacing earlier erratic pagination; 19th-century contents leaf: Physiology
Physical description: Manuscript
Note: The following wholly blank openings are omitted: fols. 40v-41r, 44v-45r, 54v-55r, 101v-102r, 134v [final page].
The foliation is duplicated by an earlier, erratic pagination, which should be ignored.

Fols. 1-7 (7 leaves): Sections of text on medical and miscellaneous topics.
Fols. 8-9 (2 leaves): Comments on poisons and antidotes.
Fol. 10 (1 leaf): Section of text concerning 'the state of physick in some of the remoter parts of the world'.
Fols. 11-40 (30 leaves): Materials for putative second edition of Human Blood.
Fol. 41 (1 leaf): MS version of secondary titles in Human Blood.
Fol. 42 (1 leaf): MS version of 'Titles of the First Order' in Human Blood.
Fols. 43-4 (2 leaves): 'Heads of the History of Human Blood'.
Fols. 45v-46 (2 leaves): List of three 'Preliminary Titles' and forty-two 'Titles of the first Order' prepared for the proposed second edition of Human Blood.
Fol. 47 (1 leaf): Heads concerning the Gall.
Fol. 48 (1 leaf): List of Heads for Human Blood, etc.
Fols. 49v-50, (2 leaves): List of three 'Preliminary Titles' and forty-two 'Titles of the first Order' for Human Blood.
Fols. 51-2 (2 leaves): 'Materials for the Scheme of the Titles of the Second Classis of the Natural History of H. Blood'.
Fol. 53 (1 leaf):'Titles of the 1. Order. for the natural History of Humane Blood of Healthy Men'.
Fol. 54 (1 leaf): MS version of 'Titles of the 1. Order for the natural History of Humane Blood of healthy men'.
Fol. 55v (1 leaf): 'A list of the secondary Titles concerning the spirit of H.B.'.
Fols. 56-7 (2 leaves): (i) 'A Preliminary Title'/'Primary Titles Additional for the History of Human Blood', (ii) 'Secondary Titles or Subtitles For the History of Human Blood'.
Fols. 58-9 (2 leaves): 'Titles of the 1. Classis for the Natural History of Human Urine, emitted by Healthy Men'.
Fols. 60-1 (2 leaves): Extracts from travellers' accounts dealing with medical matters, etc.
Fols. 62-3 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Exp & Obs Physicae and related material.
Fol. 64 (1 leaf): Unpublished text relating to Christ. Virt., II.
Fols. 65-76 (12 leaves): Sections of text on medical topics, including prefatory material concerning 'parable medicines'.
Fols. 77-8 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Specific Medecines.
Fol. 79 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Salubrity of the Air' (Languid Motion).
Fol. 80 (1 leaf): Unpublished passage about 'the Chymicall way of examineing Drugs'.
Fols. 81-2 (2 leaves): Text of putative appendix to Specific Medecines.
Fol. 83 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Human Blood.
Fol. 84 (1 leaf): Recipe mixing 'the blood of a hermaphrodite and the blood of a sound Ruddy Comlexioned woman'.
Fols. 85-9 (5 leaves): Text of putative appendix to Specific Medecines.
Fols. 90-1 (2 leaves): Two passages for Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
Fol. 92 (1 leaf): Unpublished experiment on a viper in an evacuated receiver.
Fol. 93 (1 leaf): Discarded version of part of Final Causes.
Fols. 94-5 (2 leaves): 'A Continuation of Physiologicall Entryes' [Workdiary 20].
Fol. 96 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
Fol. 97 (1 leaf): Unpublished note concerning an experiment with galls producing a purple colour in 'the German Spaw-water'.
Fol. 98 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
Fols. 99-100 (2 leaves): Material relating to Ex & Obs Physicae.
Fols. 101-2 (2 leaves): Dr Davies' prescription for Boyle.
Fols. 103-4 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
Fols. 105-9 (5 leaves): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
Fols. 110-11 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
Fols. 112-13 (2 leaves): Material relating to Notion of Nature.
Fol. 114 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
Fols. 115-16 (2 leaves): Material relating to Notion of Nature.
Fols. 117-18 (2 leaves): Material relating to Notion of Nature.
Fol. 119 (1 leaf): Material relating to Notion of Nature.
Fols. 120-1 (2 leaves): MS version of part of High Veneration.
Fols. 122-4 (3 leaves): 'Of Subterraneal Steams'.
Fol. 125 (1 leaf): List of headings, probably for medical treatise.
Fol. 126 (1 leaf): 'The great French Lythotomists Receipt For the stone in the bladder'.
Fol. 127 (1 leaf): MS version of title III, experiment I, of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
Fol. 128 (1 leaf): MS version of experiment XX, second trial, of Spring, 1st Continuation.
Fol. 128v (1 leaf): MS version of title III, experiment III, of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
Fols. 129-30 (2 leaves): 'Anatomical Expts To be try'd' (pencil endorsement) on animal nerves and on the heads of newborn puppies.
Fols. 131-2 (2 leaves): A fantastical plant in Rome, allegedly grown by Kircher by the effect of heat on a mixture placed in glass.
Fols. 133-4 (2 leaves): 'Considerations and Doubts Touching the vulgar Method of Physick'.