Silvester, Thomas Hookham (1799-1877): "On venous bruit"

On venous bruit. Holograph draft and notes for a paper afterwards published in the London Medical Gazette 1846 N.S. Vol. III, pp. 894-897. Produced in London.

1846

1 volume 20 ll. 4to. 221/2 × 19 cm. In a paper-covered note-book. Written partly on the rectos only, and partly in pencil.

Presented 1969.

The author was a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper, and after studying in Paris, set up practice at Clapham in 1835, where he founded the Clapham General Dispensary. He retired in 1863. He was the father of Rev. Paul de Hookham Silvester [1827- ], and Henry Robert Silvester, M.D. [1828-1908] [Cf. Lancet, 1877, ii, p. 789].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).