GB 0100 TH/PP82 - WHYTT, Robert (1714-1766)

1 volume

Acquired by from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library

GB 0100 TH/PP82 [1760] Collection (fonds) 1 volume Whytt , Robert , 1714-1766 , physician

Born, Edinburgh, 1714; graduated M A, St Andrews University, 1730; studied medicine in Edinburgh; studied of anatomy under Monro; moved to London, 1734, studied under Cheselden, visited the wards of the London hospitals; attended the lectures of Winslow in Paris, Boerhaave and Albinus, Leyden; M D, Rheims, 1736; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1737; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1738, and commenced practice as a physician; Professor of the Theory of Medicine in Edinburgh University, 1747; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1752; lectured on chemistry, 1756; first physician to the King in Scotland, 1761; President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1763-1766; died, 1766.
Publications include: An Essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals (Edinburgh, 1751); An Essay on the virtues of Lime-Water in the cure of the Stone (Edinburgh, 1752); Physiological Essays (Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, Edinburgh, 1755); Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of those Disorders which have been commonly called Nervous Hypochondriac, or Hysteric, to which are prefixed some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves (T Becket and P du Hondt, London, J Balfour, Edinburgh, 1765); Observations on the dropsy in the brain, by R W (Edinburgh, 1768); The Works of R. W. ... Published by his son [R Whytt] (Edinburgh, 1768).

Acquired by from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Manuscript volume containing notes on Robert Whytt's clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh University, [1760], taken by an unidentified student. Also includes some 'Directions given by the Physician General at the Havannah to the surgeons of the Army relating to the management of the sick'.

1 volume

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

English

Detailed catalogue

Papers including unpublished lectures, case reports and prescriptions, held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine (reference: MSS 6858-6880); correspondence, casebook and lecture notes, 1749-1765, held by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (reference: Whytt); correspondence and lecture notes, 1753-1764, held by the Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections (reference: Dc 4 98; Gen 745); letters to J Oswald, 1754-1766, held privately.

Previous reference: M146

Sources: Dictionary of National Biography CD ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); Historical Manuscripts Commission On-line National Register of Archives; British Library Public On-line Catalogue; Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984). Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
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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Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Manuscript volume containing notes on Robert Whytt's clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh University, [1760], taken by an unidentified student. Also includes some 'Directions given by the Physician General at the Havannah to the surgeons of the Army relating to the management of the sick'.

1 volume

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

• English

• Latin

English

Papers including unpublished lectures, case reports and prescriptions, held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine (reference: MSS 6858-6880); correspondence, casebook and lecture notes, 1749-1765, held by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (reference: Whytt); correspondence and lecture notes, 1753-1764, held by the Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections (reference: Dc 4 98; Gen 745); letters to J Oswald, 1754-1766, held privately.

Detailed catalogue

Previous reference: M146

Previous reference: M146

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.

• English