Student notebook on surgery and anatomy
- Date:
- c.1731-1732
- Reference:
- MS.6858
- Part of:
- Whytt, Robert (1714-1766), F.R.S., Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University and President of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Notebook on surgery and anatomy kept by Robert Whytt as a student.
ff. 1r-37v. Notes on surgical lectures, commencing 'The operation of Paracentesis'.
ff. 41r.-73v. Observations on the anatomy of the human body.
ff. 76v.-88v. Notes on varieties of tumour.
ff. 91r.-106r. Notes on bones.
ff. 109r.-117r. Lecture notes headed 'Year second A. Monro of the Bones and Marrow'.
f. 118v. Miscellaneous notes.
Publication/Creation
c.1731-1732
Physical description
118 ff. (original pagination 1-23, incomplete) 1 vol., 155 × 98 mm. Sewn but not bound.
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores