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Rigg, Joshua (fl 1775)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4214-4217

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Rigg, Joshua (fl 1775)

Date(s): [1775]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Rigg | Joshua | fl 1775

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Not given.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes, taken while a Student at Edinburgh University, of lectures by John Rutherford, William Cullen, John Gregory and Alexander Monro [1733-1817]. Vol. I Gregory (John). Clinical lectures. 1773 (pp 1-204). Cullen (William). Clinical lectures (pp 205-935). Vol. II Monro (A.). Lectures anatomical and physiological (pp 1-253). Operations in surgery (pp 254-365). On the first preliminary leaf, containing notes of a case, is the date 1775. Vol. III Cullen (W.). Part of a course on the Institutes of Medicine (275 pp). Vol. IV Rutherford (J.). Clinical lectures (pp 1-316). Monro (A.). Treatise on wounds in general (pp. 317-386). A treatise on bandages (pp. 368-430). This last volume is in a smaller quarto. It is dated 1752 on p 1, but this may be the date when the lectures were first given. The script is apparently the same as that of the preceding volumes.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

as set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

4 vols. 4to. 23 × 18 cm., 191/2 × 16 cm. Original half calf bindings, worn.

Finding aids:

Described in: 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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

In each volume is an ex-libris of Joshua Rigg.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1928.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anatomy | Biology
Bandages | Medical equipment | Scientific equipment | Equipment
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Wounds | Injuries | Pathology
Physiology

Personal names
Cullen | William | 1710-1790 | chemist and physician
Gregory | John | 1724-1773 | Professor of Medicine
Monro | Alexander | 1733-1817 | anatomist x Monro secundus
Rutherford | John | 1695-1779 | physician

Corporate names
Edinburgh University x University of Edinburgh

Places