De morbis pectoris

Late 18th century

1 volume 1 l. + 116 pp. + 2 ll. last bl.. 8vo. 191/2 x 121/2 cm. Original calf binding.

Purchased 1933.

Probably a student's notes of lectures, perhaps in France, and written while William Buchan [1729-1805] was still alive [cf. p. 101 'Dat celeb. Buchan']. Pp. 107-end contain notes on the methods of treating the apparently drowned or those overcome by cold.

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).