Midwifery lectures (Lowder)

Notes of lectures on midwifery given by William Lowder, taken by B Lukyn, The arrangement of the lectures broadly conforms to the syllabus outlined in A syllabus of the lectures on midwifery delivered at Guy's Hospital, and at Dr Lowder's and Dr Haighton's Theatre, in St Saviour's Church-Yard, Southwark (London, 1799), cf. MSS. 3336-3337. The lectures are not numbered. The student was perhaps Robert Lukyn, later a surgeon at Faversham, Kent.

1786

363 ff. original foliation 1-357 and unnumbered. 1 vol., 200 x 155 mm. Calf binding, rebacked and lettered `Lowder's lectures 1786'.

Purchased at Phillip's sale, 5 Nov. 1999, lot 694.

Stationer's label of Thomas Street, Gracechurch Street, [London], inside front cover.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts