Surgery, 18th/19th cent.

Collection of notes and extracts on Surgery, Anatomy, Pathology, etc.: mainly in French, but with some entries in Latin. Chirurgie. Nos. 2, 3, 5, 7 (37 ll.). Chirurgie: Manuel opératoire. Nos. 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6 (76 ll.). Anatomie. 4 sections (21 ll.). Angina. 1 section (6 ll.). Biographie. 1 section (19 ll.). Fièvres. 3 sections (54 ll.). Peste. 2 sections (19 ll.). Pharmacie. 1 section (10 ll.). Praecepta. 1 section (2 ll.). Zoologie. 1 section (28 ll.). The 'Biographie' section contains entries for letter A only. The latest date is 1810. The 'Zoologie' section, written on 4to. sheets (26 × 20 cm.), is by a different hand: it contains: Brisson (Mathurin Jacques) [1723-1806] Tableau des quadrupèdes. Gouan (Antoine) [1733-1821] Méthode ichthyologique. Bruguières (Jean Guillaume) [1750-1799] Tableau systématique des vers.

1788-1810

1 volume 272 ll. v.s. Unbound. In 27 sections in separate folders. They are separately numbered, and some sections are wanting.

Purchased 1934.

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).