Materia medica

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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.

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Lectures on materia medica and "methodus praescribendi" by Charles Alston, Edinburgh 24 April 1736. Printed rules of the Belfast Medical Library (Ulster Medical Society) February 1829, pasted inside upper board.

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Fraser (Sir Thomas Richard) Lectures on materia medica taken down by George Mackay. 3 vols. Edinburgh University, winter sessions 1881-1882, 1882-1883.

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Synopsis of Prof. Sir Thomas Richard Fraser's lectures on materia medica. c. 1891. 2 vols.

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The papers of Professor Andrew Duncan at Dc.1.90 include letters and other material mostly about his travels and studies abroad. At Gen. 61-66 are notes of lectures on Materia Medica delivered between 1831 and 1832. There are also notes for his Edinburgh Dispensary (1803).

Scope and Contents The bound manuscript volume begins: ' A treatise of the Materia Medica in which the Virtues of all the Simples of the three Kingdoms are truly described and they have been fully demonstrated by the accurate Observations of many truly celebrated Authors and particularly of the learned Dr. Charles Alston Professor of the Materia Medica and Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Reg. Prof. Botan'. The text in the manuscript volume is organised into the following...