Lectures on various topics
- Date:
- 1732-1733
- Reference:
- MS.6861
- Part of:
- Whytt, Robert (1714-1766), F.R.S., Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University and President of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Lectures on various topics compiled by Robert Whytt.
ff. 1r.-16v. Of the nourishment of the foetus in utero: a discourse had in the club on Friday the 1st of December 1732.
ff. 17r.-29v. Untitled discourse: on the body's fluids and solids and their relationship to disease, colds and catarrhs, delivered 12 January 1733.
ff. 32r.-44r. Untitled discourse: on anasarca dropsy, n.d.
ff. 45r.-71v. Discourses of the nature of the insensible perspiration, and the diseases that arise from an obstruction of it, n.d.
Publication/Creation
1732-1733
Physical description
71 ff. (original paginations 1-30, 1-24, 1-25, 1-22, 1-8; final discourse not paginated) 1 vol., 195 × 160 mm. Sewn but not bound.
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores