Paterson, George (1734-1817)

Notes of lectures taken down by G. Paterson I. Annotationes Rutherfoordii in Aphorismos Boerhavi. Clinical lectures by Doctor Rutherford. Produced in Edinburgh.

1755-6

1 volume 3 bl. ll. + 105 pp. + 3 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 142 pp. + 3 bl. ll. 8vo. 16 × 10 cm. Original half-calf binding.

Presented 1947.

As a medical student at Edinburgh University, Paterson was elected a Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh in 1756. He afterwards attended medical lectures in London [cf. Nos. VII-XXI] including some by William Hunter [Nos. VII-XII], and later matriculated as 'Medicus' at Leyden University on 4 March, 1763. He went to India in 1771 as Secretary to Sir Robert Harland [1715?-1784], and having amassed a fortune in a few years, returned to Scotland.

Armorial book-plate of George Paterson of Castle Huntly Esq.

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).