Charles Bisset, Medical essays and observations (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1766), with extensive additional observations and case notes in Bisset's hand, intended as a supplement
- Date:
- c. 1780-1781
- Reference:
- MS.5964
- Part of:
- Bisset, Charles (1717-1791), physician and military engineer
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Many of the case notes relate to the area around Skelton, Cleveland, North Riding of Yorks., where Bisset lived from 1753 to 1781.
On p. 271 of the supplement Bisset refers to 'this time (December 1780)', and on p. 35 he refers, in an autobiographical note, to 'this present month of June 1781.'
Publication/Creation
c. 1780-1781
Physical description
1 volume 1 volume: 208 × 140 mm., [viii], 304 pp. (the printed work), then iv, 463 pp. (the manuscript supplement). Original half-calf binding, damaged.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
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