Playfair, John (1849-1933)

Hysteria in children: Thesis. Tribute to the late Dr. John Playfair by Principal William Malcolm Macgregor, read at St. Andrew's Church, Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. Typescripts: the Thesis with Author's holograph additions and corrections. The latest date in the text is 1891, and this copy must have been made later. Produced in Edinburgh.

c. 1895, 1933

1 volume 69 ff., 2 ff. 4to. 251/2 × 201/2 cm. Unbound.

Presented by Mrs. Playfair 1934

The author was consulting physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, and President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1904. He obtained his M.D. at Edinburgh University in 1892, and so styles himself in the MS. title to this Thesis, which is apparently unpublished.

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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