Grove, John (fl. 1804-c. 1847), surgeon

Notebook belonging to John Grove, surgeon, containing memoranda on diseases, recipes and prescriptions, case notes, and commonplaces. The latter part of the volume (ff. 60-93) includes detailed case histories of some thirty patients made between 10 November and 30 December 1814; these were probably cases in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where Grove was a student (MD 1817).

c.1804-c.1814

94 ff. 1 volume, 178 x 115 mm., Light brown leather binding.

Purchased from Bristow & Garland, catalogue 2-2000, item 48.

See Guenter B. Risse, Hospital life in Englightenment Scotland; care and teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Cambridge, 1986).

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Ownership inscription inside front cover: `J Grove'.