Clinical lectures, delivered by William Cullen
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Clinical lectures, delivered by William Cullen
Classmark: MS 2032/5
Original reference: MS 566
Creator(s): Tatham, James (fl1822)
Date(s): n.d. [c.1773]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5519
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Manuscript volume of a series of 39 lectures delivered by William Cullen (1710-1790), between 28 November 1772 and 21 April 1773, presumably at the University of Edinburgh. Transcribed by James Tatham (fl1760-fl1822), a Leeds surgeon-apothecary.
The lectures discuss case histories of named patients treated by Cullen.
Erratic contemporary pagination, between pp.1-591, but no apparent hiatus in the text. Label on front paste-down in the hand of Edward Thompson, noting the history of the volume. Bookplate on fly-leaf, The University Library Leeds.
Biography or history
William Cullen (1710-1790) was a chemist and physician from Hamilton, Lanarkshire, in Scotland. He was Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow (1751-1755); Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1755; Clinical lecturer at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (1757); Professor of the Institutes of Medicine (1766); and Professor of the Practice of Physic (1789). He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1773-1775.
Source:
W. F. Bynum, ‘Cullen, William (1710–1790)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6874, accessed 20 Feb 2017]
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.