Quain, Richard (1800-1887)

Notes of lectures on Anatomy at London University College, taken down by Alexander Halley [1823-1875]. Illustrated by pen and pencil anatomical drawings. Produced in London.

1840

1 volume 116 ll. 8vo. 18 × 111/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1926.

The author was professor of anatomy at University College, London from 1832 to 1850. He was elected F.R.S. in 1844, and was President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1868 [see the Dictionary of National Biography]. Alexander Halley obtained his M.D. at Edinburgh in 1844, and was a surgeon in London.

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).

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