Lectures on midwifery, delivered by Thomas Young
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Lectures on midwifery, delivered by Thomas Young
Classmark: MS 2032/3
Original reference: MS 565
Creator(s): Tatham, James (fl1822)
Date(s): n.d. [c.1756-c.1783]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5512
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Manuscript volume of 50 lectures on midwifery delivered by Thomas Young, Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh, and transcribed by James Tatham (fl.1760-fl.1822), a Leeds surgeon-apothecary.
Bookplate inside front cover of The University of Leeds Library. Attached to the front fly-leaf is a page of a painted illustration, showing two snakes inside a gold ring with a blue stone, over a red and white band, with a 'Leeds School of Medicine' stamp on the same page.
Contemporary pagination, numbered 1-697. There is an index to the lectures at the back of the volume.
Topics covered in the lectures, includes: the history of midwifery, the uterus, the placenta, Menstrual Flux, Fluor Albus [Leukorrhea], symptoms of pregnancy, miscarriages, labour and birth, abortions, use of forceps and scipars, caesarian operations, puerperal fever, miliary fever, venereal disease, and small pox.
Biography or history
Thomas Young (?1726-1783) was Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh, the first to give a systematic course of lectures on the subject between 1756-1783.
Source:
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Archives Catalogue, Dr Thomas Young person entry [ref: DS/UK/44]
James Tatham (fl.1760-fl.1822), was a surgeon-apothecary who practised in Leeds, and later in Rawden.
Provenance
Presented to the Leeds School of Medicine by Edward Thompson, 6 December 1880. Transferred to Special Collections in 1981. Previously catalogued under an artificial collection, SC MS Case notes.
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Physical and technical conditions
Iron gall ink corrosion.