Alston, Charles (1683-1760)-(& others)

Materia medica or a description of the virtues of Simples, 1733. Barbette, (P.). Chirurgery, 1676 [Extract]. Monro (A.). A treatise of Tumors, 1734. - A treatise of the operations of Chirurgery, 1734. Notes of lectures, etc. taken down at Edinburgh University by Robert Hamilton. On the verso of the second un-paginated leaf at the end is a rough pen-and-pencil drawing of the heart, followed by 5 ll. of notes on the movements of the heart, muscular motion, and 'Some Observations for Heart Operations 1737', illustrated by pen-drawings of instruments, etc. Produced in Edinburgh.

1733-1737

1 volume 2 ll. + 129 [130] pp. + 7 ll. + 151 pp. + 57 pp. + 9 ll. 4to. 181/2 x 15 cm. Original blind-stamped calf binding. Most of the last leaf has been cut away. P. 97 has been doubled in the pagination of the first work.

Purchased 1966.

The writer lived at Lanark, as stated in an inscription written inside the lower cover, and it is possible he may have been the Robert Hamilton [1710-1757] entered in R. W. Innes Smith's 'English-speaking students of Medicine at...Leyden' 1932, p. 107, who became professor of anatomy and botany at Glasgow in 1742, and professor of medicine in 1756.'

Database description transcribed from 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).