A vindication of the managers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, from the aspersions cast upon their conduct in a late pamphlet.

Edinburgh : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year MDCCXXXVII. [1737]

38 pages ; 8vo (17 cm)

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Bound with: Memorial concerning the Surgeons Hospital. 1737 ; and, The history and statutes of the Royal infirmary of Edinburgh. 1749. Binding: 19th cent. marbled papers, calf spine and corners, black leather label on spine lettered: 'Edinburgh Infirmary'. Presentation bookplate of the Medical Society of London ('Societas Medica Londinensis') on front pastedown, indicating presented by 'The Lister bequest'. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.

ESTC T178871