Carr Family
- Date:
- c.1800-1834
- Reference:
- MS.5207
- Part of:
- Carr Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Gomersal, Birstall, Yorks
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
H. Boerhaave, Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (Leiden, 1737), interleaved, with brief annotations in an unknown hand. Extensively reused by William Carr (1785-1861), mainly as a notebook for transcripts from published medical works. Includes the following: Carr Family, 'On the pulse. Tentamen medicum per W C read to the Dewsbury Medical Club 1822', ff. 54v.-56v, c.1800-1834 (MS.5207/1); Carr Family, 'Calomel', verses against its use in medicine, and extracts relating to local medical affairs, ff. 63v.-64r, ff. 224v.-230, 1812-1824 (MS.5207/2).
Publication/Creation
c.1800-1834
Physical description
1 volume 1 volume: 220 × 180 mm.
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores