Fothergill, John Milner (1841-1888)

The Romance of Medicine. By a West-end Physician. Author's holograph MS. (Incomplete). The author states in his preface 'Pains have been taken in each of the following papers to depict accurately a form of well-marked disease, usually chronic'. They are in the form of short stories, each built round a particular malady. This work was apparently never published. Produced in London.

1873

1 volume 2 ll. + 116 pp. + pp. 274-277. Folio. 33 × 211/2 cm. Unbound. Pp. 117-237 are wanting.

Presented by Mrs. Fothergill, 1927.

The author obtained his M.D. at Edinburgh in 1865 and practised in Leeds and London [Cf. D. N. B.].

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).