Alston, Charles (1683-1760)

On medicinal roots from his Lectures on Materia Medica. A student's notes. Alston was the first lecturer on botany at Edinburgh University [Cf. D.N.B.]. Produced in Edinburgh.

c. 1725

1 volume 182 pp. + 3ll. last bl.. 4to. 211/2 x 161/2 cm. Original half-calf binding. A name has been erased from the title-page.

Purchased 1932.

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).