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PETERS, N

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-PETEN

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: PETERS, N

Date(s): 1739

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Peters | N

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Richard Lower was born, 1631; education, Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford, 1651-1665; had established an active medical practice in Oxford; established himself as an important medical researcher; relocated to London to establish a medical practice, 1666; maintained his research activities for several years after arriving in London but devoted himself increasingly to clinical medicine; Fellow of the College of Physicians, 1675; Royal Physician, 1675; died, 1691.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

English translation by N Peters in 1739 of Richard Lower's Tractatus de corde (1699), with finely drawn copies of the seven plates at the end.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Records are open for consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bequeathed by Dr D Lloyd Roberts, 1920.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.