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Corrected misspellings include the following:
necesssary → necessary
belived → believed
plaintain → plantain
accout → account
paroxyms → paroxysm
cardamon → cardamom
prescriptipn → prescription
inflammmation → inflammation
w ich → which
 n → in
wiound → wound
j w → jaw
humour → tumour
chissel → chisel
Hippocates → Hippocrates
Baslam → Balsam
the the → the
linimen → liniment
intrument → instrument
carelesness → carelessness

Spelling inconsistencies include (but not limited to) the following:
antient/ancient
aromatick/aromatic
cummin/cumin
diuretick/diuretic
encrease/increase
fore arm/fore-arm/forearm
haemorrhage/hæmorrhage/hemorrhage
milstone/mill-stone
teprion/tephrion
tremor/tremour

The following typographic errors have been corrected:
a) the block of index entries commencing with U were incorrectly placed after V and have been repositioned;
b) an incorrect index page reference to ‘Passum’ has been corrected;
c) a group of Book V notes that were incorrectly numbered 89–96 have been renumbered 84–91 to correspond with the text anchors;
d) an incorrectly numbered note in Book V has been renumbered Note 63a;
e) incorrectly numbered Note 1 in Book VI has been renumbered as Note 92 in Book V.

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