Consumption: lectures by Whytt
- Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766
- Date:
- January-April 1734
- Reference:
- MS.6862
- Part of:
- Whytt, Robert (1714-1766), F.R.S., Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University and President of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
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Of a psthisis pulmonalis or consumption of the lungs: four lectures by Robert Whytt.
ff. 1r.-16v. Discourse first: of a catarrh and the way how it produces a consumption of the lungs; read Friday January 4th 1734.
ff. 18r.-33v. Discourse second: of an obstruction of the lungs and haemoptoe; read February 1st 1734.
ff. 35r.-51r. Discourse third: of an abscess and ulcer in the lungs; read 28 March 1734.
ff. 52r.-62v. Discourse fourth: of the cure of an ulcer in the lungs; read 17 April 1734.
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January-April 1734
Physical description
62 ff. (original pagination 1-26, 1-32, 1-32, 1-22) 1 vol., 195 × 160 mm. Sewn but not bound.
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