Pott, Percival (1714-1788)

The chirurgical lectures of Percival Pott Esqre Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. An anonymous student's notes of the first 36 Lectures. Produced in London.

c. 1770

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). + 222 ff. + 3 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 24 × 19 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. Ff. 67-74 are wanting. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1929.

Pott became senior surgeon to St. Bartholomew's in 1765.

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).

Library-stamp on the title-page and on fol. 1 of the 'East Kent and Canterbury Medical Library' and a press-mark 'A 4' inside the upper cover. Below this is inscribed: 'East Kent and Canterbury Medical Library. Presented by Mr. James Reid 1853'. James Reid was a student at St. Bartholomew's and after qualifying practised first at Dover, and from 1846 to his death at Canterbury [cf. Lancet 1911. ii p. 925].