Lectures of Dr Robert Watt

• Reference:GB 250 48
• Dates of Creation:1812
• Language of Material:English
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• Scope and Content

  Student notes on lectures on the subject of fevers and inflammatory fevers, 1812.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Dr Robert Watt, b. 1774 was the compiler of the Bibliotheca Britannica and President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons 1814-1816. He was founding President of the Glasgow Medical Society in 1814. He began lecturing from his house in Queen Street, Glasgow in 1811 on the Theory and Practice of Medicine. The notes cover the subject of fevers and inflammatory fevers. The writer of the notes is unknown.

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• Related Material

  RCPSG 1/20/4/7 Manuscript draft of Treatise on Chincough by Robert Watt MD, c.1813