Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1910
• Dates of Creation:1733
• Name of Creator:
  Russell, Alexander, fl 1770s-1780s (medical student, University of Edinburgh)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  3 Volumes

• Scope and Content

  Three volumes of notes of lectures given by Charles Alston, entitled 'A treatise on the materia medica ... from the lectures of Charles Alston, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians and Professor of Botany at Edinburgh. 1733'. 183 x 165 mm, rebound. They bear the armorial bookplate of Alexander Russell, M.D. It is possible that this is the Alexander Russell that studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated in 1779.

• Access Information

  Open.

• Acquisition Information

  Purchased by the Library in 1963. Accession no E63/10.

• Archivist's Note

  Description created by Aline Brodin in April 2019.

• Subjects

  Materia medica

  Medical students

• Personal Names

  Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist)

  Russell, Alexander, fl 1770s-1780s (medical student, University of Edinburgh)

• Genre/Form

  Student lecture notes

• Geographical Names

  University of Edinburgh, Students