Malcolm Flemyng's Course of Physiology

Neatly written in Latin by the same hand throughout, but there is no indication of the writer's identity. Vol. i fol. 1, has the title "Physiologia | auctore M. Fleming M.D. celeberrimo."

Mid 18th Cent.

Vol. i (115) 142 folios; Vol. ii (116) 198 folios; Vol. iii (117) 218 folios 4to. 28.5 × 21.5 cm. Modern binding.

[Malcolm Flemyng, M.D.; his lectures were published in the form of a text-book An Introduction to Physiology, London 1759.] Flemyng, who was a pupil of Boerhaave and Monro Primus, taught physiology in London in 1751-2. (He died in 1764.)

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).