Scattergood, Thomas (1825-1900)

Collection of short works, mostly on Physiological subjects. Author's holograph MSS. Produced in Leeds.

Presented 1937 to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Accession Number 69839.

This was previously classified as a manuscript and re-classified as an archive collection during the Wellcome Collection Systems Transformation Programme in 2026.; Description compiled by Ross MacFarlane based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.

The author was a distinguished surgeon and physician of Leeds, and lectured on chemistry and forensic medicine at the Medical School. In 1884 he became the first Dean of the Medical Faculty when the Yorkshire College was amalgamated with the Medical School, a post which he retained for the rest of his life. [Cf. B.M.J., 1900, i, p. 547].

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).