Mackenzie, Colin ( -1775)

Notes taken by an anonymous student of lectures on Midwifery by Dr. Colin Mackenzie at the General Lying-in Hospital [afterwards Queen Charlotte's Hospital.] [Followed by] Diseases of children, with directions for the management of them. To which is added the symptoms by which you can distinguish their complaints, and the Materia Medica infantum [by] Dr. Osborn and Mr. Clark. The first leaf of text is dated January 29, 1770. Produced in London.

1770, c. 1785

1 volume 1 l. + 177 pp. + 13 ll. + 37 bl. ll. 4to. 20 × 16 1/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Headings and index (on verso of the first leaf) in faded red ink.

Purchased 1906.

Dr. Mackenzie was a pupil of Smellie. His connexion with the two Hunters in the physiology of the placenta is described in I. C. Peachey's 'A memoir of William and John Hunter'. Plymouth, 1924, pp. 175-180, and Appendix III, pp. 267-271. For William Osborne [1736-1808] and John Clarke [1761-1815], see the Dictionary of National Biography

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).