Lecture notes (Volume 1)
- Author(s):
- Mather, George.
- Contributor(s):
- Baillie, Matthew, 1761-1823 Cruikshank, William A. Fordyce, George, 1736-1802
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Manuscript text
- Subject(s):
- Education, Medical Pathology -- education
- Genre(s):
- Lecture Notes
- Abstract:
- Lecture notes recorded by George Mather. The first volume is important as a complete set of 64 lectures by Cruikshank and Baillie. Fordyce volume bears the inscription of George Mather, probably the notetaker. The set is also unusual in that the notes were most likely taken during the lectures themselves, rather than the notes offered by professional scribes. Seven sections include the topics blood, arteries, veins; "absorbents"; muscles; bones and teeth; reproduction; viscera; circulation of blood and digestion; viscera pathology; brain and sensory organs; brain and nerve pathology. The second volume contains another complete set of 64 lectures by Fordyce on chemistry, practice of physic, and materia medica. Perhaps the only known set of Fordyce notes on materia medica.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Provenance:
- Purchase, 5/2004.
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101223519 (See catalog record)
- Identifier:
- 101223519X1
- Note(s):
- Cruikshank and Baillie were the best known successors to William Hunter the anatomist. Cruikshank was Hunter's partner and Baillie his nephew and student; he also inherited Hunter's anatomy theatre and museum. After Hunter's death in 1783, Baillie and Cruikshank became partners, however Baillie stopped lecturing in 1799 to focus on his medical practice. George Fordyce was a contemporary to Cruikshank and a teacher of Baillie.
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101223519X1