Rigg, Joshua

  • Rigg, Joshua
Date:
c. 1775
Reference:
MSS.4214-4217
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Notes, taken while a Student at Edinburgh University, of lectures by John Rutherford, William Cullen, John Gregory and Alexander Monro [1733-1817]. Vol. I Gregory (John). Clinical lectures. 1773 (pp. 1-204). Cullen (William). Clinical lectures (pp. 205-935). Vol. II Monro (A.). Lectures anatomical and physiological (pp. 1-253). Operations in surgery (pp. 254-365). On the first preliminary leaf, containing notes of a case, is the date 1775. Vol. III Cullen (W.). Part of a course on the Institutes of Medicine (275 pp.). Vol. IV Rutherford (J.). Clinical lectures (pp. 1-316). Monro (A.). Treatise on wounds in general (pp. 317-386). A treatise on bandages (pp. 368-430). This last volume is in a smaller quarto. It is dated 1752 on p. 1, but this may be the date when the lectures were first given. The script is apparently the same as that of the preceding volumes.

Publication/Creation

c. 1775

Physical description

4 volumes 4 vols. 4to. 23 × 18 cm., 191/2 × 16 cm. Original half calf bindings, worn.

Contributors

Acquisition note

Purchased 1928.

Ownership note

In each volume is an ex-libris of Joshua Rigg.

Finding aids

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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Accession number

  • 47032A-C, 47031