Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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231
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Repository
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University of Aberdeen Special Libraries and Archives
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Reference
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GB231/MS 2784
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Title
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John Gregory: medical lectures
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Dates
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1773
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Access Status
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Open
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Access Conditions
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The records are available subject to the signed acceptance of the Department's access conditions.
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Description
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Lectures on the practice of medicine, given in Edinburgh, 1773; 'Thomas Gilchrist's Book'
The contents are as follows: Volume 1
Arrangement of Diseases (page 1) Febrile Diseases (page 3) Intermitting Fevers (page 34) Of the cure of Intermittents (page 46) Of Inflammatory Fevers (page 63) Nervous Fever (page 91) Putrid Fever (page 107) Remitting Fevers (page 124) The Ardent Fever (page 130) The Yellow Fever (page 132) Hectic Fever (page 141) Small Pox (page 146) Of Inoculation (page 168) The Measles (page 179) Scarlet Fever (page 187) Miliary Fever (page 189) Erysipelas (page 193) Plague (page 200) Inflammation (page 213) Suppuration (page 223) Gangrene (page 233) Phrenitis (page 237) Opthalmia (page 246)
Volume 2 Angina (page 1) Gangrenous Angina (page 12) Catarrhal Fever (page 17) Hooping Cough (page 26) Pleurisy and Peripneumony (page 40) Phthisis Pulmonaris (page 42) Hepatitis (page 49) Gastritis (page 53) Entritis (page 54) Nephritis (page 58) Rheumatism (page 60) Tooth Ach (page 67) Gout (page 70) Haemorrages (page 81) Spitting of blood (page 88) Haemerroides (page 81) Bloody Urine (page 99) Vomitus (page 100) Cholera Morbus (page 105) Diarrhoea (page 107) Dysentery (page 112) Diabetes (page 118) Strangury (page 121) Dysuria (page 122) Ischuria (page 123) Debility (page 125) Palsy (page 125) Syncope (page 136) Asphyxia (page 139) Catalepsy (page 142) Vertigo (page 144) Dreams (page 146) Apoplexy (page 149) Tetanus (page 155) Epilepsy (page 158) St Vitus Dance (page 167) Hiccough (page 167) Hysteria (page 168) Asthma (page 181) Head Ach (page 186) Cholic (page 191) Hypochondria (page 195) Melancholia Mania (page 198) Anasarca (page 202) Ascites (page 204) Hydrops Pectoris (page 207) Hydrocephalus (page 208) Scrophula (page 210) Rickets (page 214) Scabies (page 216) Tenia Capitis (page 218) Scurvy (page 219) Syphilis or Lues Venerea, Virulent Gonorrhoea (page 223) Lues Venerea Confirmata (page 231) Jaundice (page 235) Calculus (page 238) Worms (page 242) Hydrophobia or Rabies Canina (page 243) Diseases of infants including Cholic (page 245) Diseases of women including Overflowing of the Menses (page 248)
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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2 volumes
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Accruals
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None expected.
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History
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John Gregory (1724 - 1773) was the youngest son of James Gregory (1674 - 1733) and his second wife, Anna Chalmers (d. 1770). He succeeded his half-brother, James Gregory (1707 - 1755), to the post of professor of medicine at King's College in Aberdeen from 1755 to 1766, held the prestigious chair of the practice of physic at the University of Edinburgh from 1766 to 1773, and was appointed First Physician in Scotland to George III in 1766. He developed the idea of ethics in science and medicine and for this reason is considered amongst one of the most influential medical figures of the eighteenth century.
He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and King's College, Aberdeen, and in 1742 moved with his mother to Edinburgh where he studied medicine under Alexander Monro primus, Andrew Sinclair, and John Rutherford. He went to Leiden in 1746 where he continued his medical studies under Gaubius, Albinus and others. He received his M.D. from King's College, Aberdeen, in 1746 and returned to Aberdeen that year, where he set up in medical practice and took up the appointment of regent (or professor) of Philosophy at King's College. He resigned his regentship in 1749 to concentrate on his medical practice but moved to London in 1754 where he took up with old friends, John Wilkes and Charles Townshend, and became acquainted with George Lyttelton, Edward Montague and his wife, Elizabeth. A year later, he returned to Aberdeen to take up the appointment of professor of medicine at King's College.
He married Elizabeth Forbes (c.1728 - 1761) in 1752 and with her, had three sons, including physician James Gregory (1753 - 1821), and three daughters, including Dorothea Gregory (c.1754 - 1830). He was deeply affected by Elizabeth's death and in 1764 moved his family to Edinburgh where his medical practice grew. In 1766 he was contentiously appointed to the chair of the practice of physic at the University of Edinburgh and later that year appointed First Physician in Scotland to George III. He held the chair until his death, when he was succeeded by William Cullen, the chief contender to his 1766 appointment. Cullen's promotion left a vacancy for the chair of the institutes of medicine at the University of Edinburgh which was filled in 1776 by Gregory's son, James Gregory M.D. (1753 - 1821).
John Gregory's eldest daughter, Dorothea, a companion and favourite of Elizabeth Montagu, famously rejected Montagu's nephew as a suitor, in favour of her brother's friend Reverend Archibald Alison (1757 - 1839), writer on aesthetics. In doing so, she gave up the prospect of a large inheritance and created a serious rift in their friendship.
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Appraisal
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This material has been appraised in line with normal procedures.
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Copyright
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Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of Special Libraries and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
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Creator Name
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Gregory, John (1724 - 1773), physician and professor of medicine at King's College, Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh
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Language
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English
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MS 995: Papers relating to the history and genealogy of the Gregory family descended from John Gregory of Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, c. 1800
MS 2171: Lectures on trigonometry, astronomy, geometry and hydrostatics, David Gregory (1661 - 1708)
MS 2206: Papers of the Gregory family of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Oxford, 1582 - 1912
MS 2789: James Gregory: medical lectures, early 19th century
MS 3046: Letter suggesting William Gregory for a post in practical chemistry, early 19th century
MS 3061/25: Notes on the Gregory family, 24 June 1788
MS 3258: Michael Barfoot: 'James Gregory and the Scottish scientific metaphysics, 1750 - 1800' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987)
MSK 245: James Gregory, M.D.: Instrument of Institution on his installation as Professor of Medicine at King's College, 1734
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Associated Persons
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NA16352 | Friends of Aberdeen University Library |
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