Edinburgh Medical Dissertations, 1771–1773: Two Sammelbands from a Contemporary Library, with Manuscript Contents Lists

Two volumes of Edinburgh inaugural dissertations, numbered 16 and 18 on the spines of a contemporary library — the first holding nine dissertations of 1771–1773, the second nine of 1773–1774 — each with a manuscript table of contents in the same period hand, the second noting that 'all the above Gent. except the last graduated in Sep. 1773.'

Volume 16: David Wardrobe, De Paralysi (1771); William McIlvaine, De Anorexia (1771); Thomas Crawford, De Cynanche Stridula (1771); Colin Campbell, De Phlegmone (1771); Jonathan Binns, De Exercitatione (1772); Robert Urquhart, De Ipecacuanha (1772); Hugh James, De Leucorrhoea (1772); John Moody, De Causis et Forma Febrium Epidemicarum (1772); William Edwards, De Morbis Gravidarum (Leiden, 1773).

Volume 18: George Pearson, De Putredine Animalibus post Mortem Superveniente (1773), dedicated to William Dawson, William Cullen, and Joseph Black, and inscribed 'Mr Thos. Gibbons from ye Author'; Charles Newman, De Dyspepsia; R. B. Remmett, De Opii Usu in Morbis Inflammatoriis; James Johnstone, De Angina Maligna; John Ligertwood, De Angina Inflammatoria; William Wemyss, De Ophthalmia; Boyle Coghlan, De Plethora; William Boyd, De Diabete; John Parnham, De Cystirrhoea (1774).

Contemporary calf, spines gilt-ruled with red morocco labels. Printed at Edinburgh by Balfour and Smellie, printers to the University.

From Catalog I

Eighteen inaugural dissertations of the years just after Rush's, bound as a contemporary owner kept them and indexed in his hand — 'all the above Gent. except the last graduated in Sep. 1773.' William McIlvaine's <em>De Anorexia</em> of 1771 is a Philadelphian's Edinburgh degree; George Pearson's <em>De Putredine</em> of 1773 is dedicated to William Cullen and Joseph Black and inscribed by the author to Thomas Gibbons. Nine photographs: the bindings, both contents lists, and the title and dedication leaves.