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STROTHER, Edward (1675-1737)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-STROE

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: STROTHER, Edward (1675-1737)

Date(s): [1724]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Strother | Edward | 1675-1737 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1675; extra-licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1700; practised at Alnwick; graduated MD at the University of Utrecht, 1720; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1721; author of a number of medical works, in particular making detailed comments on the problems and use of 'Jesuits' bark', cinchona, in fever, and on the treatment of smallpox; died, 1737.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Epitome Praxis medicinae by Edward Strother, possibly lecture notes for Praelectiones Pharmaco-logicarum et Medico-practicarum of which he published a syllabus in 1724.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.

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:

Purchased from Sothebys, 1972.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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