Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus (1671-1734)

Lecture notes.

1699-1735

14 volumes

Purchased 1908, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935.

This Neapolitan physician was a pupil of Tozzi whom he succeeded as professor of medicine and philosophy at Naples University in 1705. In 1717 be became first professor of medicine, a post he retained until his death. In 1718 he was elected F.R.S. He created a botanical garden at Naples, and was an advocate of simple remedies and the use of cold water.

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).