Dixon, Joshua ( -1825)

Letter-book from 27 October, 1764 to 4 May, 1765. Author's holograph MS. of drafts of letters to his mother, and various relations and friends, written while serving as assistant to Edward Parr, a Liverpool apothecary who was also a merchant with an interest in the slave-trade. These letters give a vivid account of the social life of an embryo physician, whose salary was £20 per annum, living in, with 'perquisites' for bleeding, etc. Produced in Liverpool.

1764-1765

1 volume 130 pp. obl. 8vo. 141/2 x 181/2 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1928.

The writer took his M.D. at Edinburgh in 1768, and afterwards practised at Whitehaven (Cumberland).

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).