Drafts, including references to lectures on the nervous system, to diseases on the eye, and to medical research in general.
- Date:
- mid 18th century
- Reference:
- MS.6878/9
- 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
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Three drafts by Whytt:
1. An address to students regarding an illness of Whytt's, setting out how in the light of this he intends to rearrange his lectures on the brain and the nerves.
2. Passage regarding defects of sight caused by obstructions in the retina, stating that unlike cataracts these cannot be addressed by surgery and setting out various other possible cures. On the back of this sheet is a draft advertisment for a house to let.
3. Draft on medical research and the value or not of speculation, addressed to medical students.
Publication/Creation
mid 18th century
Physical description
3 items
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.