Medical commonplace book, including a catalogue of the books in the Medical Library at the Leeds General Infirmary
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Medical commonplace book, including a catalogue of the books in the Medical Library at the Leeds General Infirmary
Classmark: MS 1587
Date(s): 1783-1799
Language: English; Latin
Size and medium: 1 vol. (96 ff.) manuscript
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6758
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Bound with boards and a vellum backstrip which is partly lost through damage. Comprises extracts on various subjects, but chiefly medical, written between 1783 and 1799, as follows:
ff. 1-4, An observation on ye management of children at ye time of birth, by Dr Denman;
ff. 5v-6r, Extract from ye Quaker's epistle ye 16 of the 6th month 1783, Leeds Intelligencer, 1 July 1783;
ff. 6v-7v, The way to make money plenty in every man's pocket, by Dr Franklin, Leeds Intelligencer, 8 November 1785;
ff. 8r-17r, The following observations are Mr Hey's: he was so kind as to lend me them. The principal objects of attention in natural labours...;
ff. 17v-23v, Extract from a discourse on Romans 12 v.16...'wise in your own conceits', Monthly Review for December 1788, p. 528;
f.24, If a man works for nothing..., followed by another extract, Monthly Review, December 1788;
ff. 25r-44r, Pharmacopeia in usum valetudinarii generalis Leodiensis (prescriptions in Latin);
ff. 45r-58r, A catalogue of the books in the Medical Library at the Leeds Infirmary with their value annexed according to the catalogue deposited in ye library-room;
ff. 59r-60v, A catalogue of surgeon's instruments in the appropriate closet at the General Infirmary, 19 June 1775;
ff. 61r-63r, Remarks on the speech of Lord Thurlow..., and other extracts from the Monthly Review for November 1788;
f. 63v, The conclusion of the critique upon Gibbon's history, in the Monthly Review for September 1788;
ff.64r-70v, Various medical notes, perhaps by an apprentice of Dr Denman;
ff. 70v-71r, Recipe for a cheap soup, Leeds Intelligencer, 15 December 1789;
f. 71v, Where have I seen this adage, that 'the ready way to ruin a man is to dress him up in fine clothes'?;
f. 72v, Extract from the advertisement for a matron for the infirmary in the room of Mrs Hanson deceased, Leeds Intelligencer, 28 January 1793;
f. 73r, Short booklist; f. 73v, A plan for assisting the public credit..., Leeds Intelligencer, 10 June 1793;
f. 74, Mr Burke, in his lofty situation..., Leeds Intelligencer, 9 September 1793;
f. 75r, Women, because they have not been led..., Wollstonecraft's Rights of women, vol.1, p.415;
f. 75v, Pure mathematics..., The Star, 23 October 1793; f. 76r, Mr Stoke..., Leeds Intelligencer, 15 September 1794;
f. 76r-v, When Mr Addison..., Johnson's lives of ye poets in ye life of Addison;
ff. 77r-84r, Lackington, Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful lady; f. 84v, An epitaph in Batley church yard;
f. 85, Jottings on education, 1798;
ff. 86-88, Swift extracts;
ff.89-96, Blank
The volume is accompanied by two typescript copies of a list of the contents, and the printed description of the volume from catalogue 142 of Thomas Crowe, booksellers of Norwich.
Biography or history
The compiler of the commonplace-book is unknown
Provenance
Purchased from Thomas Crowe, Bookdealer, of Norwich, 30 April 1975
Access and usage
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Physical and technical conditions
Staining and warping from water damage on the covers and many pages in the volume.Binding is damaged and many pages are loose, with some tears.