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Ref NoDEP/HTW/2/12
Acc No2012/17
TitleLetter from William Blackburne, London, to William Hamilton
Date1 Jan 1789
TermPost mortem
Description Of ItemAddressed to William Hamilton. He gives details of his life since he last wrote and provides an introduction for a Polish count on his way to Glasgow 'who represents the human species in the completest little miniature you ever beheld'. He describes a dissection at Windmill Street which showed the viscera 'wonderfully and completely transposed' and a heart without a pericardium, both cases written up by Dr Bailey. He presides once a month at the Lyceum Medicum 'where debates are full as amusing as instructive'. Transcript available.
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