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200 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. 1764, p. 198. Both these essays are erroneously- attributed, in Dr. Maty's index, to his brother, Dr. Thomas Heberden, of Madeira, who sent several other papers to the Society, Dr. Heberden was one of the principal contributors to the first three vo- lumes of the Medical Transactions^ a work which was pubHshed, in a great measure, at his sugges tion, by the College of Physicians, and in which we find several of his original communications. — 4. Remarks on the Pump-water of London, I., 1768, p. 1. — 5. Observations on Ascarides, pp. 45, 54. — 6. On Night Blindness, or Nyctalopia, p. 60. — 7. On the Chicken-pox, p. 427. — 8. On the Epidemical Cold of 1767, p. 437. — 9. Queries, p. 499, relating to Bark, Camphor, Cold, the Gout, and Apoplexy. — 10. On Hectic Fever, II., 1772, p. 1.— II. On the Pulse, p. 18.— 12. On a Disorder of the Breast, p. 59 — (the Angina Pec- toris). — 13. On Diseases of the Liver, p. 123. — 14. On the Nettle Rash, 173.— 15. On Noxious Fungi, p. 216. — 16. Queries, p. 449, on Sizy Blood, on Hernia, on Damp Clothes, and on Ve- nesection in Haemorrhages. — 17. On an Angina Pectoris, IIL, 1785, p. 1. — 18. On the Ginseng, p. 34.— 19. On the Measles, p. 389.-20. Table of the Mean Heat of the different Months in London, Phil. Trans. LXXVIIL, 1778, p. 86. The most important of his works, and one which will extend his reputation to a very distant pos«  terity, is the Commentarii de Morhorwn Historia et C'urationc. 8vo. Lond. 1802. This very re- markable book appeared both in Latin and English. He had long been in the habit of making notes in a pocket-book at the bedside of his patients;