Wilkes, Richard (1691-1760)

Observations on particular Cases of Patients and how treated by Dr. Wilkes, from 1731 to 1742. Collected from scattered Remains in the Dr's own Hand writing [by] Thomas Unett. And continued by Richard Wilkes Unett from MSS. of Dr. Wilkes. The first 10 ll. containing a few medical notes are headed: 'In nomine Dei. Amen. Hoc Registrum inceptum est 1737' by the hand of Dr. Wilkes himself. Produced in Wolverhampton.

1737-c.1780

1 volume 1 l. + 9 [10] ff. + 100 pp. + 20 bl. ll. 4to. 20 × 16 cm. Original vellum binding. Fol. 6 at the beginning is wanting.

On permanent loan from T. Unett Esqre of Edgbaston, 1970.

The text is by the hands of Thomas Unett [1732-1785], bookseller of Stafford and later Prebendary of Lichfield [1772-1785], his cousin, and of his son Richard Wilkes Unett, whose armorial book-plate is pasted inside the upper cover. Richard Wilkes, M.D. was a physician and antiquary of Wolverhampton, and formerly a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge [1717-1723]. [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

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).