Notes from a course of lectures on clinical medicine, presumably delivered by James Gregory
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Notes from a course of lectures on clinical medicine, presumably delivered by James Gregory
Classmark: MS 2032/10
Original reference: MS 689
Date(s): n.d. [c.1801-c.1825]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/r2h1lny2
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5662
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Anonymous manuscript notes from a course of medical lectures, conducted at the University of Edinburgh. Each numbered section of text commences with the note 'Dr. G. P.P. 5 [-21]', presumably 'Dr Gregory Practice [of] Physic'.
225 pages in total, plus detached fragments (8pp) in 1 envelope.
Topics of the notes include: fever, scrofula [Tuberculosis, Lymph Node], ulceration, suppuration, gangrene, ophthalmia, phrenitis [Encephalitis], cynanche, pneumonia, gastritis, enteritis, hepatitis, nephritis, gout, exanthemata [Exanthema], variola [Smallpox], rubeola [Measles], haemorrhagia, amenorrhea, catarrhus, dysentery, neuroses, apoplexia [Stroke], adynamiae.
Biography or history
James Gregory (1753-1821) was a physician from Aberdeen. He was appointed Professor of Institutes of Medicine at Edinburgh in 1776 and Professor of Practice of Medicine in 1790. He became engaged in controversy with Dr Alexander and James Hamilton (managers of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the College of Physicians), and was suspended from his fellowship of the Edinburgh College of Physicians in 1808.
Source:
Paul Lawrence, ‘Gregory, James (1753–1821)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11466, accessed 23 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
Damage to sewing, pages are loose. Board are missing, brittle paper.