Cooper

Diary written by a Student Assistant Physician or Surgeon at the Westiminster Hospital, from 12th June to 27th August, 1786. Author's holograph MS., with typed transcript [c. 1925.] On the first leaf is inscribed 'Major Anbott, No. 73 Queen Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place'.

1786

1 volume 21 ll. last bl., 18ff. 12mo., 4to. 151/2 x 91/2 cm., 251/2 x 20 cm. Original paper covers. The typescript is unbound. The last blank ? leaf of the original has been torn away.

Purchased 1916.

The author of this MS. appears to have been a medical student, who also may have held a junior post on the staff of the Westminster Hospital; he gives details of patients, their diseases and remedies. His name was Cooper, and he was the son of a physician or surgeon referred to as 'Mr. Cooper' [Transcript fol. 14 and fol. 16], who may possibly have been William Cooper, Senior surgeon to Guy's Hospital from 1783 to 1800.

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).