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Record ID 287644

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 69

Shorts comparative

Borrowed: 1767/10/6 (Tuesday). Returned: 1767/10/6 (Tuesday).


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Thomas Hamilton
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1772.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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Thomas Short (Male, born c.1690, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy
A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad, According to the different Soils, Situations, Business of Life, Use of the Non-Naturals, &c. faithfully collected from, and attested by, above Three Hundred Vouchers, and many of them for a long Course of Years, in two different Periods. To which is added, a syllabus of the general states of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse. By Thomas Short, M.D.