| Description Of Item | The chapters are: 'Curatio Luis Venereia Secundi et Tertii Generis', 'Prima Methodus Hami Luem Veneream Curandi Sci [?] Per Emaciationem', 'Secunda Methodus Curandi Luem VenereaM Secundi et Tertii Generis Per Purgantia', 'Tertia Methodus Curandi Luem Veneream Secundi et Tertii Generis Sci [?] per Sudores','Directio Curationis', 'Quarta Methodus Curandi Luem Veneream 2di et 3ii Generis Per Ptyalismum', 'Ipsa Ptyalismi Operatio', 'Signa Ptyalismi Instantis' and 'Signa Prasentis Ptyalismi'. Although this is Volume 5, any previous or subsequent volumes are wanting. This volume has the same engraved title page as ACH/3, BOH/4, PLA/2, STA/1, MOA/1-4, RJO/1 and VAG/1.
Wording on bookplate:
This Collection of Manuscript Lectures, by the Founders of the Medical College at Edinburgh, viz. Dr Monro primus, Drs Rutherford, Alston, St Clair and Plummer, consisting of Seventy Volumes, was purchased by Dr [Andrew] Duncan sen. in the year 1772, from Mr John Murray, bookseller in London, England, for seven guineas.
Dr Duncan has given directions, that after his death, these Manuscript Lectures, together with One Hundred Volumes of Practical Observations on Medicine, in his own handwriting, and which he has employed as notes for Clinical Lectures, shall be presented to the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, to be deposited in their Library.
His intention is, that this Collection of Manuscripts, may convey to Posterity, a testimony of his own Industry, and of the Abilities of some of his Medical Preceptors, whose Characters, as long as Medicine continues to be cultivated as a Science, will do honour to the College of Physicians and University of Edinburgh. June 4 1812. |