Day, William

Copy of the Deposition of William Day, chirurgeon of Faversham in the case of John Mascall v. Stephen Odiarus, John Boswell and others: given before the Commissioners of the Court of Chancery at the 'Dolphin' in Faversham, on 11 June, 1688. Day's evidence is on ff. 1-10, and deals with the treatment for an ulcerated leg of Gregory Odiarus-one of the defendants-by a certain Thomas Elvy, chirurgeon of Ashford, to whom he (Day) had been apprentice some fifteen years previously. Produced in Faversham.

1688

1 volume 24 ff. folio. 36 x 29 cm. Modern half vellum binding. Last leaf repaired, some lower margins damaged.

Purchased 1927.

A contemporary scrivener's copy.

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).