Whytt, Robert (1714-1766), Edinburgh medical professor

'Clinical lectures by Robert Whytt MD, Professor of Physiology and Pathology in Edinburgh'. Notes on clinical lectures taken by an unnamed student. On f. 166 is a reference to an epidemic in Scotland in 1758. Bound together with four printed doctoral theses by Benjamin Young Prime, Samuel Jay, Joannes Eilerts and Cornelius Ysermans, published at Leiden between 1750 and 1764.

c. 1760

1 volume 1 volume: 240 × 197 mm., 182 ff. Contemporary leather binding, re-backed.

The manuscript collection of the Medical Society of London, of which this material formerly was part, was purchased by the library at Wellcome Collection in 1984.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).