Clinical Lectures
- Date:
- 1751-1764
- Reference:
- MS.MSL.86
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
The book is paged continuously 1-287 and has been thrice used: first for Rutherford's lectures in 1751, then for a case of hydrophobia in 1762, and lastly for the lectures of Cullen and Whytt in 1763-4. The handwriting is very neat and careful and is the same throughout.
Publication/Creation
1751-1764
Physical description
144 folios 4to. 23 × 18 cm. Old sheep binding, rebacked.
Biographical note
[Dr. John Rutherford, (1695-1779), was the first professor in Edinburgh to deliver clinical lectures in the Infirmary. Robert Whytt (1714-1766) was one of the pioneers of medical research investigations].
Finding aids
Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).
Ownership note
Bookplate of John Coakley Lettsom.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores