Hope, John (1725-1786)

Lectures on Materia Medica. Holograph MSS. of notes taken down by Sir Charles Blagden [1748-1820] when a student at Edinburgh University. Produced in Edinburgh.

1767-8

2 volumes 2 vols. 8vo. 19 × 12 cm. Original boards, one wanting.

From the Blagden Collection.

John Hope was professor of botany at Edinburgh University in 1761. He had obtained his M.D. at Glasgow in 1750, and was later elected F.R.S. [see the Dictionary of National Biography]

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).