Lecture notes on surgery and on treating venereal diseases

Description

Manuscript notebook of transcribed lectures in an anonymous hand, inscribed in pencil on a fly-leaf page as 'Home and Pearsons Lectures'.


The first set of lectures, from pp.5-180, cover various topics relating to surgery, including: inflammation, amputation, injuries of the brain and trepanning [trephining], operation and treatment of hernia, hydrocele [testicular hydocele], popliteal aneurism, cancer of the breast, stone in the bladder [urinary bladder calculi], lithotomy, stricture in the urethra, treatment of strictures, disease of the prostate.


The lectures often include examples of patient cases. The final page of notes on p.180 mentions that this was a series of 12 lectures.


The notes then continue between pp.183-255, with lectures on the subject of the diagnosis and treatment of venereal diseases.


Modern re-binding with title on the spine: 'Lecture notes. Home and Pearson'. Pencil pagination throughout; text is written on the rectos only; pp. 2-4, 44, 181-182 and 256-267 are blank. The notes mention patient cases at St George's Hospital London [pp. 71, 107, 127], and refence 'Mr Hunter' [John Hunter FRS (1728-1793), on pp. 63, 152, 154, 186]. There is also reference to a Mr Marrison of Yorkshire [p.58] and a Mr Pott [pp.62-63].


Bookplate for The University Library Leeds The Library of the School of Medicine inside front cover.

Biography or history

It is possible [but not confirmed] that the 'Home and Pearson' mentioned are the physician George Pearson (1751-1828) and the surgeon Sir Everard Home, first baronet (1756-1832). George Pearson was elected physician to St George's Hospital in 1787 and lectured on chemistry, materia medica and the practice of physic for many years. Everard Home was a surgeon at St George's, he started there as a pupil under John Hunter, who was also his brother-in-law. Home and Pearson also both conducted separate series of lectures in October 1806: Pearson on 'the Practice of Physic, Theraputics, and Chemistry', and Home on 'the principal Operations of Surgery' to pupils of St George's Hospital.


Sources:

T Bradley and R. Batty, Medical and Physical Journal, Vol XVI, Jun-Dec 1806 (London), [p.287].


Munk's Roll online, Volume II, 'George Pearson', http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3495 [accessed 21 Feb 2017]


N. G. Coley, ‘Home, Sir Everard, first baronet (1756-1832)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13639, accessed 21 Feb 2017]

Provenance

Transferred to Special Collections in 1981. Previously catalogued under an artificial collection, SC MS Case notes.

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Physical and technical conditions

A pressed leaf found on p.112.

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