Hunter, John (1728-1793)

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793
Date:
1779
Reference:
MS.2959
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Lectures on Surgery. The two leaves before the title-page contain Hunter's: 'Of means to recover people apparently drowned' by a later hand. Produced in London.

Publication/Creation

1779

Physical description

1 volume 3 ll. + 200 ff. + 1 l. folio. 361/2 × 22 cm. Original calf binding. Written on the rectos only: headings underlined in red.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1934.

Finding aids

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).

Ownership note

Pasted inside the upper cover is the engraved armorial book-plate of Henry Gore Clough, an army surgeon who died in 1838, and who may possibly be the writer of this MS.

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  • 79656