Workdiary 24 ('Physiologicall Notes, begun the 25th of January')

Content: Accounts of phenomena, many of them on anatomical and medical topics from the late 1660s, related to Boyle from doctors, virtuosi and travellers; informants include the Earl of Southampton (the Lord Treasurer), Dr Thomas Hollier, Dr James Molines, Etienne Polier, Edward Halsall, et al.

General Information

• Creation: late 1660s
• Hands: Robert Boyle (perhaps the title header) Hand H (all entries)
• Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 22, pp. 61-74).
• Languages: English (9 entries)
• Length: 9 entries, unnumbered
• Format: Folded foolscap sheets. The last entry ends partway down p. 73 and p. 74 is blank.
• Note 1: The first page of the workdiary, with the title and the beginning of the first entry (p. 61) is preceded on p. 57 by a page headed at the top 'A Physiologicall Note-booke or Pandectæ Physica Begun the 1 of January 166', with the last digit of the year missing. The rest of this page is blank, as is its reverse (p. 58). Pp. 59 and 60, which do not appear to be conjoint with 57-8 or 61-2, contains, on p. 60, a version of The Order of my Severall Treatises, about which see Works, xiv, 327-58. It is not certain whether the cover page on p. 57 refers to this workdiary or is an uncompleted continuation of Workdiary 19 (BP 22, 1-56)
• Note 2: The workdiary title was originally written 'Physiologicall Notes begun On New-yeares-day', very lightly in pencil. The words 'On New-yeares-day' were later replaced by 'Begun the 25th of January', written in ink
• Note 3: Many of these entries also appeared in Strange Reports, an appendix to Boyle's Experimenta et Observationes Physicæ (1691) (see Works, xi, 431-7).