IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MS.MSL.63 (a-c)
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Cullen, William: Lectures on the Practice of Medicine
Date(s): 1770
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 vols. Vol. i (63A) 455 folios; Vol. ii (63B) 358 folios; Vol. iii (63c) 339 folios.
Name of creator(s): Dowsett | E | fl 1770
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Cullen was born,1710; educated Hamilton Grammar School and the University of Glasgow; medical apprenticeship, Glasgow; service as a ship's surgeon; assistant to an apothecary, London; medical practice near Shotts in Lanarkshire, 1732-1734; practised in Hamilton, 1736-1744; graduating M.D., Glasgow, 1740; moved to Glasgow continuing in private practice and lecturing semi-officially on medicine for the University of Glasgow, 1744; Lectureship in Chemistry in Glasgow, 1747; Chair of Medicine, 1751; lectured on chemistry and medicine and continued with his practice, 1747-1755; in 1755 he was appointed conjoint Professor with Plummer in Edinburgh with the succession on Plummer's death which occurred in 1756 and Cullen held the Chair until 1766; Professor of the Institutes of Medicine (Physiology) and of the Practice of Medicine, Edinburgh; retired, 1789; died, 1790.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Transcript of William Cullen's lectures on the practice of medicine taken by E. Dowsett, Edinburgh, 23 May 1770.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Numerical by volume.
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
4to. 24 × 15.5 cm. Modern binding.
Finding aids:
Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
The folios in Vol. iii are wrongly numbered, they are: 1-159, then 24 blanks, 174-330.
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008