The material consists of aBook of Midwifery, being lectures on Midwifery given by Professor Thomas Young. Dated at Introductory note from 3 May 1763.
The first 252 pp. relate to Midwifery, but following these are 156 pp. of Pathology notes.
There is no indication of the name of the note-taking student.
There is a modern bookplate of Douglas Guthrie, with notes on facing page also by Douglas Guthrie
Thomas Young was probably born in 1725. By the summer of 1751, Young was practicing surgery in Edinburgh. In 1756 he was appointed Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University - only the third holder of that Chair, after Robert Smith and Joseph Gibson, the first holder. Young was the first Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh to actually lecture on the subject of obstetrics. He also had an association with Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary. Professor Thomas Young died 5 February 1783 at the age fifty-seven.
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Young Lectures, 1763, acquired by donation, 1964, Accession no. E64.14.
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