W., W.

Notes of cases and treatment, written by an anonymous apprentice medical student. This MS. is apparently a fair copy of notes made by a medical apprentice. In the earlier parts he speaks frequently of 'my master', who may perhaps have been Dr. Thomas Wadsworth [1676-1733], mentioned on p. 38 in an entry signed 'W.W. 1730.' This MS. itself however seems to have been written in 1755 as stated in an account of a case on p. 125. This begins: 'A gentlewoman being very ill Dr. Shamberg was call'd in I having an opportunity to see her then found her in the following manner. This being the 1st of January 1755 ...' The physician mentioned is probably Isaac Schomberg [1714-1780], M.D. of Cambridge in 1749, by Royal Mandate, who practised in London [see the Dictionary of National Biography]. Produced in London.

1755

1 volume 131 pp. 4to. 20 × 16 cm. Original vellum binding. Margins cropped. A number of leaves have been cut out at the end.

Purchased 1933.

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).