[George Whitley, surgeon.] Autograph syllabus of lectures (by J. H. Green of St Thomas's Hospital?), 'Observations' by anatomist Edward Grainger, extracts from 'Pharmacopoeia Nosocomii Regalis Sancti Thomae. Londinensis' and 'Guy's Pharmacopoeia'.

Author: 
George Whitley, surgeon, of Halton, Cheshire [Joseph Henry Green (1791-1863), surgeon and lecturer at St Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, London; Edward Grainger (1797-1824), teacher of anatomy]
Publication details: 
St Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, London: 1819 and thereabouts. Halton, Cheshire: 1820.
£450.00
SKU: 22726

Two items in the hand of George Whitley, surgeon, of Halton, Cheshire (not to be confused with his namesake the epidemiologist George Whitley (1816-1881), for whose career see Fraser Brockington, 'Public Health in the Nineteenth Century', 1965). The two items are accompanied by the front board of a volume, with the following ownership inscription and note on the pastedown: 'George Whitley, Surgeon, | St. Thomas' Hospital. | London. | Novr. 22. 1819. | NB. See in this Book a Copy of a Letter to Lady Cunliffe pr. Mr. [?] Surgeon, about an Ulcerated Leg of her House Keeper, Mrs. Price.' ONE: Autograph syllabus of a course of thirty-one lectures on disease and pyrexia. No general title or details of date or location, but with spine label reading 'SYLLABUS | DR. G.' The possibility that 'Dr. G.' is the surgeon (and Coleridge's literary executor) Joseph Henry Green is raised by the reference to 'Mr. Green' in Item Two below. (Green was demonstrator of anatomy at St Thomas's from 1813, and was elected surgeon at the hospital in 1820.) 214pp, 4to. Internally in very good condition, tightly-bound in worn half-calf binding with marbled boards and two labels on spine: the first as described above, the second with a 'J' in a diamond. The syllabus has the customary arrangements into orders and classes, with descriptions of various fevers (such as 'Putrid', 'Bilious Remitting', 'Ardent', 'Marsh', 'Yellow', 'Scarlet', 'Exanthematous', as well as the measles, with 'Preparation both for Inoculation and when Epidemic'), symptoms, causes, treatments (including sections on 'Bleeding', 'Purging', 'Diet in Aques', 'Bitters', 'Astringents', 'Opiates', 'Exercise', 'Peruvian Bark', 'Arsenick', 'Mercury', 'External Applications', 'Cordials', 'Blisters', 'Fomentation and Bathing', 'Antispasmodics'), prognoses, references to 'Authors' writing on various themes. Ends with 'Lect. 31} Aphthous Fever'. TWO: Ad hoc stitched bundle of autograph notes, on Budgen paper with 1818 watermark. 59pp, 12mo. First section, 20pp, headed 'Pharmacopoeia Nosocomii | Regalis Sancti Thomae. | Londinensis. in parte', ends with: 'N. B. | The Lotio Hyd: flav: Mr. Green recommends to be used to the Labia of the Female Organs in Cases of Prurigo, i.e. the intolerable "Itching of those parts". This app: succeeds where nothing else will.' Second section, 20pp, headed 'Guy's Pharmacopoeia | in parte.', ends with 'N. B. The longest Funis Umbilicalis G Whitley ever saw, was in a child he delivered himself at Halton Feb: 1820, of the Daughter of Wm. Bold, Mary, who married Thos. Mort. This Funis was one Yard and three Inches in length.' Third and last section, 19pp, containing thirty-three entries (the first thirty-two numbered), with note: 'NB. Observations on these Eye applications made by Ed Grainger Esqr. St. Savior's Church Yd. | London. | ("Lecturer")'. See the entries on Grainger and Green in the Oxford DNB, and 'Mr. Whitley's Case of a Damson-stone on the Trachea', in the London Medical and Physical Journal, 1818.