Notes on medical topics

Manuscript volume containing notes on medical topics, possibly from lectures, in an anonymous hand. Thought to have been compiled from lectures in London and Leeds, covering the following topics:

hernia [p.1]; the brain and nervous system [p.59]; arteries [p.81]; joints & ligaments [p.105]; the heart [p.116]; the eye [p.119]; the ear [p.138]; hernia [pp.153-155]; the brain [p.156]; joints [p.185]; section entitled "Dr Jordan's anatomy" [p.201]; the muscles [p.207]; venereal disease [p.234]; a case history of a patient with a popliteal aneurism, treated by Dr Logan at the Leeds General Infirmary in 1809 [pp.242-246].

The sources of the notes include: - Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet (1768-1841), surgeon and anatomist [pp.1-56]; - Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), surgeon and anatomist [pp.119-138, 153-163 and 165-184] - Mr Carlise [p.234-] - Maurice Logan (d. c.1840), surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary [pp.242-246] - Also references to the practice of William Hey, FRS (1736-1819), [pp. 33-34, 52]

Pencil pagination, with watermark on p.235 for 1809; date of 16 December written on p.207. 247 pages in total, pp.57-58, 198-200, 233 and 247 are blank.