Templeman, Peter (1711-1769)

Letter ... to Dr. Battie ... concerning a scirrhous tumour of the uterus. Illustrated with an engraved plate, labelled 'Philos. Trans. N° 481, Tab. II': Tabula I is wanting. The outer margin of the plate is damaged. With an attached 4to. sheet addressed to Dr. Battie 'From Dr Templeman.' This is endorsed by Folkes: 'No. 2. Nov. 29. 1746. Pr. Tr. 481. V'. He has also endorsed the text: 'No. 2. Nov. 27. 1746', and the Plate: 'IV a Letter from Peter Templeman M.D. to Battie M.D. fellow of the Royal Coll[ege of Phys[icians], London & F.R.S. concerning a Scirrhous Tumour of the Uterus. Read Nov. 27. 1746'. Produced in London.

1746

5 ll + 1 l (folio. 33 × 21 cm.). Probably the author's holograph MS.

Purchased 1932.

The author obtained his M.D. at Leiden in 1737 and was Keeper of the Reading Room at the British Museum in 1758 [see the Dictionary of National Biography]. William Battie [1704-1776] was M.D. at Cambridge in 1737, and F.R.C.P. in 1738, Harveian Orator in 1746, and President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1764 [Cf. ibid.].

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).