Vacca-Berlinghieri, Andrea (1772-1826)

Lezzioni sulla chirurgia. Tomo III. Produced in Pisa.

Early 19th century

1 volume 186 ll. (first & last bl.). 4to. 24 × 19 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1931.

A damaged label on the spine reads: 'Andreae Vaccae. T.III', and this MS. contains an anonymous student's notes of his lectures on surgery at Pisa University, which he began as professor of surgery there in 1800. He had obtained his M.D. in 1791 and had studied in Paris, and in London under John Hunter.

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).