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- 1777-1778 (Creation)
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2 volumes
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Robert Perceval obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1780, and was appointed first Professor of Chemistry, Dublin University, a post he held from 1785 to 1805.
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GB 0120 MSS.3826, 3827 1777-1778 Collection 2 volumes Perceval , Robert , 1756-1839
Robert Perceval obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1780, and was appointed first Professor of Chemistry, Dublin University, a post he held from 1785 to 1805.
Purchased at Sotheby's 23/7/1934, Lot 216 (part).
Robert Perceval's clinical notes of cases in Edinburgh Infirmary, 1777-1778. Compiler's holograph manuscript. Produced in Edinburgh.
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Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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2 vols. 8vo. 19 × 12 cm., 181/2 × 12 cm. Original quarter-calf bindings, not uniform. Written mostly in shorthand.
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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Purchased at Sotheby's 23/7/1934, Lot 216 (part).
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Robert Perceval's clinical notes of cases in Edinburgh Infirmary, 1777-1778. Compiler's holograph manuscript. Produced in Edinburgh.
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Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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- English
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- Latin
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Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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