A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1987
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![5. William Waylett [1728-1815]. List of women delivered by William Waylett, of Lydd, Kent, 1757-1815. Waylett wrote his list at the back of a volume of medical recipes compiled by his grandfather William Waylett [1636-1702?]. In all he recorded 2,863 deliveries, of which he described 2,462 as 'natural', the remainder being mainly 'lingering', 'laborious', 'praeternatural', breech presentations or cases of twins. Waylett's normal fee, ten shillings and sixpence, varied according to distance and the pa- tient's ability to pay. 6. Italian herbal. Mid 18th century. This volume contains over 640 watercolour illustrations of plants, followed by a shorter section of flowers, fruits, quadrupeds, insects and sea creatures. The ori- gin of the illustrations has not yet been identified, and there is no accompanying text. At the end of the manuscript (fF. 167-169) are three landscapes. 7. A surgeon-apothecary's ledger, 1774-80. This ledger has recently been identified as that of William Lee [d.1780], of Odiham, Hants. It contains his accounts both for surgical treatments and for medicines dispensed. His patients reflect the whole range of local society, from the Rt. Hon. Welbore Ellis and Sir Charles Blunt to Thomas White, the Odiham butcher, and the poor of various parishes. 8. Oswald Beale Cooper [fl. 1825-33], M.R.C.S. Certificate of attendance at lectures on anatomy, physiology, pathology and surgery at the Theatre of Anatomy, Great Windmill Street, 1825-28. Ten certificates awarded to Cooper during his medical education form part of the Institute's substantial, but as yet mainly uncatalogued, collection of diplomas. They show how a London medical education in the early nineteenth century was pieced together by attendance at a variety of public and private institutions. Amongst the latter was the Theatre of Anatomy, founded by William Hunter in Great Windmill Street. Cooper's certificate was signed by Herbert Mayo [1796- 1852], physiologist and anatomist, and the surgeon Caesar Hawkins [1798-1884]. 9. Thomas Herbert Bickerton [1857-1933]. Operations book and clinical photographs, c. 1886-c. 1901. Bickerton was ophthalmic surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary from 1886 to 1919. His operation book records a variety of operations, iridectomies for glaucoma and iritis, tenotomies and re-adjustments of squints, enucleations of the eyeball, operations for cataract, lachrymal fistula and other conditions. Many of the clinical photographs relate to cases in the book. A few are 'before and after' photographs, including one endorsed 'Eyes put straight because his fiancee refused to marry him if he did not submit to an operation'.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456852_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
