IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MS.MSL7 (a & b)
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Cullen, William: Lectures on Chemistry
Date(s): mid 18th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 vols. 7A, 238 folios; 7B, 241 folios
Name of creator(s): Low | Edward | 1954-1759 | medical student
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Cullen was born,1710; educated Hamilton Grammar School and the University of Glasgow; medical apprenticeship, Glasgow; service as a ship's surgeon; assistant to an apothecary, London; medical practice near Shotts in Lanarkshire, 1732-1734; practised in Hamilton, 1736-1744; graduating MD, Glasgow, 1740; moved to Glasgow continuing in private practice and lecturing semi-officially on medicine for the University of Glasgow, 1744; Lectureship in Chemistry in Glasgow, 1747; Chair of Medicine, 1751; lectured on chemistry and medicine and continued with his practice, 1747-1755; in 1755 he was appointed conjoint Professor with Plummer in Edinburgh with the succession on Plummer's death which occurred in 1756 and Cullen held the Chair until 1766; Professor of the Institutes of Medicine (Physiology) and of the Practice of Medicine, Edinburgh; retired, 1789; died, 1790.
Edward Low, son of Edward Low, a farmer, entered Trinity College Dublin in 1754, and took his BA degree in 1759. He proceeded to the study of medicine at Edinburgh, but did not graduate there.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume of notes by Edward Low taken from a course of lectures delivered by Willliam Cullen on on the 'Theory and Practice of Chymistry'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Bound in volumes.
Conditions governing access:
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:
4to. 18.6 × 15 cm. Modern binding. The same handwriting throughout, the recto only being used, except for occasional additions.
Finding aids:
Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
On fol. 1 of both volumes: "Ex Libris Edvardi Low, A.B.T.C.D.".
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008