An account of the life and works of Dr. Robert Watt : author of the 'Bibliotheca Britannica' / by James Finlayson, with a portrait.

  • Finlayson, James, 1840-1906.
Date:
1897
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Credit: An account of the life and works of Dr. Robert Watt : author of the 'Bibliotheca Britannica' / by James Finlayson, with a portrait. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    4. ‘ Rules of Life ; with Reflections on the Manners and Dispositions of Mankind.’ Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, small 8vo. pp. 278. (Published anonymously, but adver- tised as by the same author, on the cover of the first part of the * Bibliotheca Britannica.’) 5. ‘ Bibliotheca Britannica; or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. In Two Parts. Authors and Subjects.’ 4 volumes 4to. Edinburgh: Constable & Co. 1824. (Parts 1 to 4, Glasgow, 1819-20; Parts 5 to 9, Edinburgh, 1821-24.) Contributions to Periodical Literature 1. ‘ Description of a new Instrument for operating for the Stone (with plate). Communicated by Mr. Robert Watt, Surgeon, in Paisley.’ ‘ The Medical and Physical Journal,’ London, March 1800, vol. iii. pp. 195-198. 2. ‘ Description of a new Machine for curing distorted Limbs (with an engraving). Communicated by Mr. Robert Watt, Surgeon, in Paisley.’ ‘ The Medical and Physical Journal,’ London, August 1800, vol. iv. pp. 93-97. 3. ‘ Letter to the Editors ’ [On Vaccine Inoculation and Small-pox, showing that a previous attack of small-pox does not prevent vaccine inoculation from taking effect; and on the two diseases existing at the same time, and yet continuing per- fectly distinct.] ‘ The Medical and Physical Journal,’ London, May 1801, vol. v. pp. 430-432. 4. ‘ Observations on the Treatment of Diabetes. By Mr. Robert Watt, Surgeon, Paisley.’ 1 The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal,’ July 1809, vol. v. pp. 287-298. 5. ‘ On the Treatment of Diarrhoea and Dysentery.’ ‘ The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal,’ April 1811, vol. vii. pp. 241-243. (In letters dated from Glasgow, February 6 and 9, 1811.) 6. ‘ Cases of Periodical Jactitation or Chorea. By Robert Watt, M.D., President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons at Glasgow, Physician to the Royal Infirmary, and Lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Physic at Glasgow.’ (Read February 1, 1814.) ‘ Medico-Chirurgical Transactions Published by the