Author:Robert Whytt

Robert Whytt
(1714–1766)

Robert Whytt

Works

• "Essay on the Virtues of Lime-Water and Soap in the Cure of the Stone" in Observations and Essays in Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1743; 1st ed. 1752; 2nd ed. 1754; 3rd ed. 1761; Dublin ed. 1762)
• "An Essay Towards the Discovery of a Safe Method for Dissolving the Stone" in Medical Essays and Observations, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1744) and No. 2 (1747)
• An Essay on the Vital and Other Involuntary Motions of Animals (1751; 2nd ed. 1763)
• Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary, Vol. 1 (1754)
  • "Of the Difference Between Respiration and the Motion of the Heart, in Sleeping and Waking Persons"
  • "On the Various Strength of Different Lime-Waters"
  • "Of the Anthelmintic Virtues of the Root of the Indian Pink, Being Part of a Letter From Dr. John Lining, Physician at Charlestown, South Carolina, to Dr. Robert Whytt"
• Physiological Essays (1755; 2nd ed. 1759; 3rd ed. 1766)
  • "An Inquiry into the Causes Which Promote the Circulation of the Fluids in the Very Small Vessels of Animals"
  • "Observations on the Sensibility and Irritability of the Parts of Men and Other Animals, Occasioned by the Celebrated M. De Haller's Late Treatise on These Subjects"
• Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary, Vol. 2 (1756)
  • "Description of the Matrix or Ovary of the Buccinum Ampullatum"
  • "Some Experiments Made with Opium on Living and Dying Animals"
• The Works of Robert Whytt, M.D. (1768) (external scan)
• Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain, to Which Are Added His Other Treatises Never Hitherto Published by Themselves (1768)