Collection of newspaper cuttings, with some holograph headings, notes and corrections, by Lettsom

Many are from the Gentleman's Magazine and other periodicals, and deal with the preservation of eggs, hygiene of prisons, inoculation, children's diseases, caterpillars (with an engraved plate), the condition of the poor, negro slavery, a Memoir of William Hawes, M.D. [1736-1808] (from the European Magazine, June 1802: with engraved portrait), on the political conduct of the Quakers, and a 'Memoir of Edward Jenner' from Lettsom's Oration delivered before the Medical Society of London, 8 March, 1804.

1772-1804

45 ll.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).