On the practice of physic

Notes on lectures on the practice of physic [given at Edinburgh] by William Cullen. References to recent works by Ferdinando Warner (ff. 178-182) and William Cadogan (f. 241) [published in 1768 and 1771] date the lectures to c. 1771-72. Incomplete being Vol. 4 only of a set of notes, containing lectures on ophthalmia, visceral inflammations (phrenitis, cynanche, peripneumonia, carditis, peritonitis etc.) and articular inflammations (rheumatism, arthritis).

1771-1772

1 volume 1 volume: 205 × 140 mm., 295 ff. Original half-calf binding. Heraldic bookplate of William Salkeld.

Purchased from A F Evans, 1980.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).