The three volumes, which are paged continuously from 1 to 1497 are throughout written in the autograph of Charles Alston (1683-1760), Professor of Botany from 1720-1760. The heading is "Lectures on the Materia Medica. Begun in November 1720 and since several times revised, corrected and enlarg'd. By C. A." Wide margins have been left throughout, in which later additions have been inserted. The latest date is 1754.
Alston , Charles , 1683-1760 , physician and botanist'Cours de nosographie chirurgicale par Mr. Baud, Professeur ordinaire à l'Université de Louvain. [Ecrit par] Elisée Hanon de Nivelles'. The first volume is illustrated with some carefully executed pen-drawings of the eye. The first volume is signed by Hanon on p. 352, and the second on the first fly-leaf, and at the end of the text. Produced in Louvain.
Baud , Jean Marie , 1776-1852 , physicianNotes on anatomy and physiology illustrated with many carefully executed anatomical drawings in coloured inks. At the end of Vol. II, are a few notes on surgery, dated 1873.
Boddy , Evan Marlett , d 1934 , anatomistTranscript of William Cullen's lectures on the practice of medicine taken by E. Dowsett, Edinburgh, 23 May 1770.
Dowsett , E , fl 1770Malcolm Flemyng's Course of Physiology. Neatly written in Latin by the same hand throughout, but there is no indication of the writer's identity. Vol. i fol. 1, has the title "Physiologia , auctore M. Fleming M.D. celeberrimo."
Flemyng , Malcolm , c 1700-1764 , physiologist and writer66 Ear, Nose and Throat pathology illustrations, in pencil, ink and watercolour, by Dr John Stewart Mackintosh, c 1899-1900.
Mackintosh , John Stewart , 1870-1939 , general practitioner