William Cullen, First lines of the practice of physic, new edn, 4 volumes (Edinburgh, 1786), annotated with extensive marginalia and notes by Charles Bisset

Annotated as part of an intended critical review of Cullen's system of medicine. Bisset's review is incomplete, perhaps interrupted by his death. Bound in before the title page of MS. 6149 is a preface by Bisset [but written in the hand of his wife Anne]. 'It may in the opinion of some medical gentlemen seem ... presumptuous to undertake a critical review of a system ... compiled by ... Professor Cullen ...'. Note by Bisset on p. viii of MS. 6149, 'To the Medical Society of London the following observations and remarks are inscribed ... by ... Charles Bisset'. A letter from Anne Bisset to John Coakley Lettsom, presenting these volumes to the Society in 1791, is now MS. 5370/10.

1786-1791

4 volumes 4 volumes: each 215 × 140 mm. Contemporary leather binding, re-backed.

The manuscript collection of the Medical Society of London was purchased by the library at Wellcome Collection in 1984.

Additional to MSS. 5964-5965.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Formerly part of the manuscript collection of the Medical Society of London.