Bateman, Thomas (1778-1821), M.D.

Clinical notebook and case book compiled by an unnamed medical student at Edinburgh who later practised in London. With numerous commonplaces.

ff. 1v.-2r. Index.

ff. 3r.-82r. Notes on various diseases and medical conditions, based on printed sources, lectures, and the compiler's own personal knowledge. With a few notes on medical history.

ff. 82v.-128r. (numerous blanks). Notes on cutaneous diseases, based mainly on the compiler's own cases between 1813 and 1816.

ff. 130r.-131r. Notes on nervous diseases in indigestion, including case notes.

ff. 131v.-152r. largely blank.

ff. 152v.-158r. Analysis of surnames.

ff. 159r.-165r. Miscellaneous verses transcribed from published works.

ff. 165v.-167r. blank. ff. 171v.-172r. 'Analysis of Mr Alison's essay on Taste' [Archibald Alison, Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, 1790].

ff. 173r.-174r. Notes on the growth of plants.

ff. 174v. Poem transcribed from the Morning Chronicle, 20 March 1816.

ff. 175r.-180v. blank.

ff. 181r.-183r. Moral, literary and scientific 'queries'.