Shelley, John Nicholls (1783-1858): notes and observations from lectures, visits to hospitals and travels

This manuscript began as the Departmental Order Book kept by the author whilst serving as an army surgeon in Italy (1814): he has written his name, "J.N. Shelley, Messina. 1814" inside the cover.

The military entries cease after 1816, and a new collection of notes begins at the other end of the volume, headed "Notes chirurgical and anatomical, etc. from Lectures in 1816/17". Following these are notes and extracts from the lectures, or from the works of leading medical men of the time, in Paris and elsewhere, dated 1818/19. Shelley seems to have attended at the Salpêtrière, and to have been present at the lectures of Broussais, Esquirol and others.

Other medical notes follow, the latest dated 1838. There are also extracts on Italian literature, the works of Dante, and so forth.

139 pp. + 6 ll. + 79 bl. ll. + 93 ll.

obl. 8vo, 14 x 20 cm.

Original vellum covers, with looped silk tie, defective.