The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding recordkeeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution Gale initiated a revolution of its own digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these highquality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print making them highly accessible to libraries undergraduate students and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly as is evidenced by the extensive collection which includes descriptions of diseases their conditions and treatments.