Conspectus, translated

Introduction to Gregory's 'Conspectus medicinae theoreticae', translated by William Wyndham Tatum. At the beginning the translator remarks 'I have endeavoured to give as literal a translation as the idiom of the language will allow, casting eloquence entirely aside'. On the last leaf he writes 'I beg to observe that I do not hold myself answerable for the spelling, it being written from my dictation only'.

1842

1 volume 43 pp. + 2 bl. ll. folio. 34 × 21 cm. Unbound. First leaf damaged.

Purchased 1932 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Accession Number 77733.

The 'Conspectus' was first published in 1780-1782: no record has been found of the publication of this translation.

Database description transcribed from 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).