Description
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The medical and scientific papers of Dr James Douglas (1675-1742), F.R.S., Physician Extraordinary to Queen Caroline, and mentor of William Hunter. Bequeathed in 1783 as part of Hunter?s library. The manuscripts include medical case records, anatomical, botanical and zoological studies (with important material on the Guernsey Lily and a corpus of drawings and engravings of the rhinoceros). There is abundant material on an 18th-century fraud, the case of Mary Toft of Godalming, who claimed to have given birth to a litter of rabbits. An interest of a completely different kind is reflected in a series of manuscript English, French, Latin and Greek grammars, and in a copious index to the works of Horace.
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