Dr. Robert Walker’s medical commonplace book(1785–1787)

• MS 1931.24
• Microfilm: M-1118 and M-1553
• 1 vol. ([138] pp.)

Notes taken by Dr. Robert Walker (d. ca. 1820), of Kingston, Dinwiddie County, VA, while a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. These notes pertain to clinical observation of female patients, their diseases, and the treatments used at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, where Walker studied under Dr. James Gregory and Dr. James Hume.

The volume includes its own rough index.

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