Medicine: 18th cent

Notes of lectures on Medicine: in Latin. Written by several contemporary hands. The first two parts contain notes on general medicine, the remainder deal with anatomy and physiology: some are incomplete. There is an English translation to Part I, and these notes were probably made at an English (or Scottish) university or hospital school. The water-mark is No. 85 in W. A. Churchill's 'Watermarks on paper' 1935, where it is dated 1750.

mid-18th century

1 volume 6 parts. folio. 32 × 20 1/2 cm. Unbound and incomplete.

Purchased at Sotheby's 1/10/1945, Lot 262 (part).

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).