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DR. BENJAMIN ALLEN, OF BRAINTREE. 
be a matter of great interest if we could discover the fellow- 
volume ” ; but I expressed a fear that it had “ disappeared 
beyond hope of recovery.” 
At the time when I wrote this, I expected few things less than 
that the missing fellow-volume would shortly come to light. 
Yet, after all, the unexpected happened ; for, within six months, 
the missing volume appeared in a London sale-room. The 
occurrence is all the more remarkable, because its appearance 
in the sale-room at that particular time was, so far as I can 
ascertain, purely accidental, and had no connection whatever 
with the publication of my paper. The volume appeared (lot 
520) in a sale at the rooms of Messrs. Hodgson & Co., of Chancery 
Lane, on 7th July 1911. It had been sent there for sale by 
Mr. Albert Cubitt, the well-known dealer of Ipswich, who has 
been good enough to inform me that he acquired the book in a 
mixed lot in a Colchester sale-room some time ago. It appears, 
therefore, that both volumes had found their way somehow 
to Colchester. At the sale in London, the book was purchased 
by our Vice-President, Mr. John Avery, to whom I am indebted 
for permission to describe it. Both volumes are, therefore, 
now in the possession of members of our Club. 
This newly-discovered volume is of smaller size than that 
already described, being a pott-folio (12J ins. by 8 ins., trimmed). 
It is bound substantially in contemporary vellum, similarly 
in all respects to the other volume. On the back, it is inscribed 
in ink : “ Obs. Med., B.A., No. One ”—that is to say, “ Ben¬ 
jamin Allen’s Medical Observations, Volume Number One.” 
This proves that the volume I described previously was “ No. 
Two.” 
The new r ly-discovered volume contains [14] + 345 + [22] 
pages, practically every one being closely written upon. 
The first 12 pages are insertions. There have been inserted 
also, in various parts, several letters from Allen’s patients, 
medical correspondents, and others. 4 The last four pages 
are devoted to a fairly-complete index to the diseases 
discussed. 
The lengthy title on the title-page sets forth the nature of 
4 One letter of advice from Sir Hans Sloane is noticed hereafter (see fast, p. 7). 
Another, giving advice how to cure “ Mr. Pyke’s child,” is from Sir Richard Blackmore 
(d. 1729), Physician-in-Ordinary to King William III. and Queen Anne and a voluminous 
writer of verse. 
