Letters from Sir John Pringle (1707-1782)
- Date:
- 1759-1762
- Reference:
- MS.6867
- 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
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Description
Letters to Robert Whytt from Sir John Pringle (1707-1782), later President of the Royal Society.
The letters contain Pringle's detailed criticisms of an early draft of Whytt's Observations on...diseases...called nervous, hypochondriac or hysteric... (Edinburgh, 1765), with one reviewing Whytt's treatment of General James Sinclair (d. 1762).
Publication/Creation
1759-1762
Physical description
5 items
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
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