Pearson, Charles Yelverton (1857-1947)

Materia Medica notes. Therapeutics. Notes of lectures by Professor Pearson taken down by Patrick John Finbarr Lynch [ -1930]. Produced in Cork.

1913

1 volume 112 ll. 8vo. 18 × 11 cm. Original boards. Mostly written in pencil.

Presented 1937.

Pearson obtained his M.D. at Queens University, Cork in 1878, and became professor of materia medica and medical jurisprudence, as well as F.R.C.S. in 1886. He also held the chair of surgery from 1897 to 1928 [cf. B.M.J. 1947, ii, p. 764]. P. J. F. Lynch qualified M.B. and B.Ch. at University College, Cork in 1916, and later served in the R.A.M.C. He practised later at Cork for a short period, and afterwards settled in Lincoln. His name is not found in the Register after 1930.

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).