Yates, William Holt (1802-1874)

Thoughts on communication between the living and the dead, sorcery, witchcraft, divination, familiar spirits, mesmerism, clairvoyance, animal magnetism, electro-biology, etc. In reference more particularly to their application, now and in the days of the Ancients. Author's holograph MS. The MS. is in the form of a letter to Walter Hawkins, Esqre, archaeologist and numismatist [1787-1862].

1853

1 volume 2 ll. + 69 pp. 4to. 23 × 19 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1928.

The author was M.B. in London in 1832, M.R.C.P. in 1839, and was physician to the Royal General Dispensary, London. He wrote on the causes of epidemics in London (1838), but retired early, and travelled in Egypt.

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).