Shrapnell, William Fisher

  • Shrapnell, William Fisher
Date:
1787
Reference:
MS.4565
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

A dissertation on animal digestion ... Read before the Physical Society at St. Thomas's Hospital, October 1787. Author's holograph MS. Produced in London.

Publication/Creation

1787

Physical description

1 volume 2 ll. + 28 ff. + 4 bl. ll. 4to. 181/2 × 15 cm. Modern boards.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1923.

Biographical note

The author describes himself as 'Member of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, of the Physical Society at Guy's Hospital, and one of the Presidents of the Physical Society at St. Thomas's Hospital.'

Finding aids

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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  • 42597