Young, Thomas ( -1783)

Lectures on Midwifery. Holograph notes taken down by [Sir] Charles Blagden [1748-1820], when a student at Edinburgh University. Produced in Edinburgh.

c. 1770

5 volumes 5 vols. 8vo. 19 × 12 cm. Original boards. Written on the rectos only.

From the Blagden Collection.

Thomas Young was the 'first to give regular courses on Midwifery to medical students' [cf. Grant (Sir A.). 'The story of the University of Edinburgh', 1884, Vol. II, p. 414.] He began his lectures in 1756 and partly retired in 1780, three years before his death.

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).