English Medical Commonplace Book, 18th century
- Date:
- 1737-1787
- Reference:
- MS.6907
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
Commonplace book containing medical lectures, case-notes and correspondence, with other matter, largely agricultural. Apparently commenced by the Cheshire-born Thomas Hayes (M.D., 1747) at Cambridge University [f.215v. 'Thos. Hayes's Book 1737'] recording lectures by William Heberden (1710-1801) F.R.S. Further notes are by an unidentified student of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) F.R.S., Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The volume is later continued by Hayes' fellow physician, William Currie (fl. 1768-1805) of Chester. ff. 1r.-64r. Remarks made in Mr. Heberden's Lectures on the Materia Medica A.D. 1737-8 [hand of Thomas Hayes]. ff. 64.v-101v. Case notes and copy correspondence of William Currie; including letters by Anthony Addington (1713-90), John Fothergill (1712-80), John Pringle (1707-82) and others [hand of William Currie], 1768-80. ff. 102v.-144r. Notes on agriculture, forestry and land management extracted from various sources, including Annals of Agriculture [hand of William Currie], 1787 and n.d. ff. 144v.-157r. blank. ff. 157v.-179v. Latin extracts: Tentamina Lockiana, and Keiliana Astronomia in Epitomen redacta [unknown hand], n.d. ff. 180v.-181r. blank. ff. 181v.-194r. Additional case notes of William Currie [hand of William Currie], 1773-79. ff. 194v.-215r. Professor Sanderson's Hydrostaticks [unknown hand], n.d.
Publication/Creation
1737-1787
Physical description
215 ff. (original pagination 1-153, 1-25, 1-21) 1 vol., 325 × 210 mm. Modern half-leather binding, marbled paper boards. Spine tooled in gold, 'Medical Lectures 1737-91'.
Acquisition note
Purchased from Vanbrugh Rare Books, 1992.
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
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Accession number
- acc. 348917