The symptoms, nature, causes, and cure of the febricula, or little fever: commonly called The Nervous or Hysteric Fever; the Fever on the Spirits; Vapours, Hypo, or Spleen. By Sir Richard Manningham, Knt. M. D. F. R. S. and of the College of Physicians, London. The Third Edition.

This edition not in Wellcome. According to Worldcat this edition only registred in 2 libraries worldwide. The term 'febricula’ is still in use for any slight continued fever, and perhaps the only value of this treatise is, that its shows the danger of using a general term which tends to check exhaustive inquiry into the cause of any particular rise of temerparture . . . that the thermometer was not used in his day deprives the work of all precision. (DNB). Sir Richard Manningham was the chief man-midwife during his day, and was ‘sometimes engaged in the Summer Seasons, to attend Ladies in the Country’ (Preface), though it is an anachronism in Laurence Sterne’s 'Tristram Shandy’ (chapter xviii) to represent him as so deeply engaged in practice in 1718 as to be unable to undertake Mrs Shandy’s case. In 1726 Manningham published Exact Diary of what was observed during a close attendance upon Mary Toft the pretended Rabbit Breeder. Mary Toft declared that she had given birth to several rabbits, and fragments of these were produced. Manningham was the physician who in his Exact Diary unveiled the extraordinary imposture to the public. He emphasized his own part in detecting the woman’s trick. So great was public interest in the rabbit affair that Londoners talked of little else during the winter months of 1726. There was a a great upsurge in interest in the female genital anatomy; terms such as ‘uterus’, ‘perinaeum’ and ‘Faloppian tubes’ were on every man’s lips. After the imposture was detected, pampleteers, draftsmen, and writers of lugubrious verse were hard at work in their chambers, and the presses were busy for several months with the production of pamphlets, squibs, broadsides, and ballads about the wretched rabbit breeder. (Jan Bondesson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, pp 124-143).