Duncan, Andrew (1744-1828)

Note of clinical lectures, taken down by an anonymous student, and delivered at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Produced in Edinburgh.

1775-1777

5 volumes 5 vols. 4to. 19 x 151/2; Vol. V. 20 x 16 cm. Original quarter calf bindings. The first 4 vols. are of uniform format.

Purchased at Sotheby's 20/12/1929, Lot 892 (part).

The entry in Sotheby's catalogue assigns these MSS. to Sir William Fordyce, but the first page however of Vol. I gives 'A general plan for drawing up the history of a disease given by Dr. Duncan'.

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).

MS. No. 2396 [Fordyce] is written by the same hand, and was included in the same lot at the Sotheby sale: this contains notes of lectures by George Fordyce [1736-1802].