Lecture notes on medical topics, reputedly made by James Tatham
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Lecture notes on medical topics, reputedly made by James Tatham
Classmark: MS 2032/16
Original reference: MS 680
Creator(s): Tatham, James (fl1822)()
Date(s): Oct 1835-Jan 1836
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5567
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Anonymous manuscript notes from lectures on various medical topics, reputedly in the hand of James Tatham (fl.1760-fl.1822), a Leeds surgeon-apothecary. The lectures were delivered by Joseph Prince Garlick (1793-1865), William Hey III (1796-1875), and Thomas Pridgin Teale senior (1801-1867), at Leeds School of Medicine in the 1835/1836 session.
Original pagination; all pages before p.27 are missing (goes up to p.122). Watermark '1833' on pp.27-28 and pp.45-46. The text is dated 1835 on p.44.
Biography or history
James Tatham (fl.1760-fl.1822), was a surgeon-apothecary who practised in Leeds, and later in Rawden.
Joseph Prince Garlick (1793-1865), William Hey III (1796-1875), and Thomas Pridgin Teale senior (1801-1867), were all part of the group who set up the Leeds School of Medicine in 1831. Teale gave the opening address.
Source:
S.T. Anning, 'The General Infirmary at Leeds Volume II: The Second Hundred Years 1869-1965 (E&S Livingstone Ltd, London & Edinburgh: 1966)
Provenance
Transferred to Special Collections in 1981. Previously catalogued under an artificial collection, SC MS Case notes.
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Physical and technical conditions
Front board missing, sewing damaged, brittle paper.