Midwifery lectures (Lowder and Haighton)

Student's notes of lectures on Midwifery in an interleaved copy of 'A Syllabus of the Lectures on Midwifery delivered at Guy's Hospital, and at Dr. Lowder's and Dr. Haighton's Theatre'. London. Reprinted ... 1799. The notes are extensive and occupy 161 pages, but the writer is not identifiable. MSS. 2665 and 2666 comprise two later versions of these lectures. Produced in London.

c. 1805

1 volume 2 ll. + 161 pp. + 2 ll. + 84 pp. 8vo. 20 x 13 cm. Original quarter-calf binding, damaged.

Purchased 1927.

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).