Lecture notes on Midwifery (Professor Thomas Young, 1726-1783), taken down by person unknown

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-541
• Dates of Creation:1763
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 manuscript volume

• Scope and Content

  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

• Administrative / Biographical History

  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.

• Access Information

  Generally open for consultation to bona fide researchers, but please contact repository for details in advance.

• Acquisition Information

  Young Lectures, 1763, acquired by donation, 1964, Accession no. E64.14.

• Other Finding Aids

  None created for this collection.

• Accruals

  Check the local Indexes for details of any additions.

• Related Material

  Donor of these Midwifery notes also donated notes of lectures given by Andrew Duncan (Snr), at Gen.744D, Edinburgh University Library.

  Also at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections: Lecture notes on Midwifery (Professor Thomas Young, 1726-1783), taken down by person unknown, known as Coll-1252; Lecture notes on Midwifery (Professor Thomas Young, 1726-1783), taken down by person unknown, known as Coll-1253; and Lecture notes on Midwifery (Professor Thomas Young, 1726-1783), taken down by James Johnson, known as Coll-1254. In addition, the UK National Register of Archives (NRA), updated by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, notes: lecture notes, case book and notebook, 1759-1780, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Ref. Young NRA 16015 Coll of Physicians; and, lecture notes, 1770-1781, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, Ref. MSS 5103-10.