Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899.
Date:
1882-1885
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    They are collections of cases of the most various kinds, in the handwritings of Mr. Bell, Sir Everard Home, and. others who at different times acted as Mr. Hunter's amanuenses. Mr. Clift states that some of the cases were probably written as Mr. Hunter dictated them, but that the greater part were copied from the notes which he was in the habit of making on scraps of paper as often as he had a few minutes' leisure. Although not in Mr. Hunter's handwriting, yet these manu- scripts bear marks of his approval and authority; for the titles of many of them are written by him, and others he has interlined, corrected, and punctuated, showing that he had carefully revised theua ; he also arranged them, and was in the frequent habit of referring to them. They have therefore been used on the present occasion with all the respect that is due to the remaining unpublished works of Mr. Hunter, and are printed with no other alteration than was required for ortho- graphy, and with no addition except the insertion, in brackets, of words which seem to have been accidentally omitted or changed by the amanuensis.