Lectures of Alexander Monro, Primus
- Date:
- 18th Century
- Reference:
- MS.MSL.39
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
The volume is in the autograph of Cuming throughout.
Publication/Creation
18th Century
Physical description
141 folios 4to. 20 × 15 cm. Original boards, rebacked. Bookplates of William Cuming and of John Coakley Lettsom.
Biographical note
William Cuming, M.D., F.S.A., was born in 1714, received his medical education in Edinburgh, and afterwards settled in Dorchester. He died in 1788.
Finding aids
Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).
Ownership note
On flyleaf: "Presented to Dr. J. Coakley Lettsom by his respectful Friend J. W. Cuming."
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