RCP 9: Simples and Rarities Suitable and Honourable to the College

by Alastair Compston

Overview

The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up to 500 reflections on 500 years. Some of the people, ideas, objects and manuscripts featured are directly connected to the College, while others have had an influence that can still be felt in its work.

This, the ninth book in the series looks at the libraries and archive of the Royal College.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408706398
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	06/28/2018
Series:	500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018 , #9
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	67 MB
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About the Author

Founded in 1518 by a Royal Charter from King Henry VIII, the Royal College of Physicians of London is the oldest medical college in England. It continues to play a pivotal role in raising standards and shaping public health today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 8

The Master Printer and the Book Trade 10

The Libraries of the Royal College of Physicians 21

Fifty Items from the Library of the Royal College of Physicians 32

Thirteenth Century 34

Avicenna [Ibn Sina] (980-1037). [Canon of medicine]. 35

[Anon]. [Psalterium]. 36

Fifteenth Century 38

Raoul Le Fèvre (fifteenth century). [The recuyell of the histories of Troye]. 39

St Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD). [De civilate Dei]. 41

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (45-120 AD). [Vitæ]. 42

[Guillaume Guerson] (fifteenth century). [Instruction de bien dancer]. 43

Sixteenth Century 44

Joannes de Ketham (fifteenth century). [Fasciculus medicines]. 45

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC). [Opera]. 47

Leonhard Fuchs (1501-66). [Herbal]. 48

Thomas Raynafde (sixteenth century). [The birth of mankind]. 49

Jean Fernel (1497-1558). [De naturali parte medicines]. 51

John Caius (1510-73). [The sweating sicknesse]. 52

Gabriele Falloppio (1523-62). [Opera]. 53

Seventeenth Century 54

Josephus Struthius (1510-68). [The art of the pulse]. 55

Thomas Vicary (1490-1561). [The English man's treasure]. 56

[Anon]. [London pharmacopoeia]. 57

William Harvey (1578-1657). [De mofu cordis]. 59

[Anon]. [The plague]. 60

Thomas Browne (1605-82). Religio medici. 62

Daniel Whistler (1619-84). [The rickets]. 64

Thomas Willis (1621-75). Cerebri anatome. 65

Thomas Salusbury (c.l625-c.1665). Bibliotheca Marchionis Dorcestrics. 66

Marcello Maipighi (1628-94). [Opera omnia]. 67

Francis Bernard (1627-98). [Catalogue]. 68

Samuel Garth (1661-1719). [The dispensary]. 70

Eighteenth Century 72

[Middleton Massey] (1678-1743). [Catalogue]. 73

William Heberden (1710-1801). [Medical transactions]. 74

Albrecht von Haller (1708-77). [Bibliotheca medicines practices]. 75

William Hunter (1718-83). [The anatomy of the human gravid uterus]. 76

George Edwards (1694-1773). [A natural history of uncommon birds]. 78

Michael Servetus (c.1511-53). [Christianismi restitutio]. 80

Edward Jenner (1749-1823). [Regulations and transactions]. 82

Matthew Baillie (1761-1823). [Morbid anatomy]. 84

Nineteenth Century 86

Robert Willan (1757-1812). [On cutaneous diseases]. 87

Charles Bell (1774-1842). [Idea of a new anatomy of the brain]. 89

Augustus d'Este (1794-1848). [The case of Augustus d'Este]. 90

William Macmichael (1784-1839). The gold-headed cane. 91

Samuel Johnson (1709-84). [Sermons]. 92

Richard Bright (1789-1858). [Reports of medical cases]. 93

Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902). [Cellular pathology]. 94

William Munk (1816-98). [Munk's Roll]. 95

Andreas Vesalius (1514-64). [Tabulæ anatomices sex]. 96

Twentieth Century 98

Horace Mallinson Barlow (1884-1954). [Bookplates]. 99

Joseph Frank Payne (1840-1910). [Catalogue]. 100

Archibald Garrod (1857-1936). Inborn errors of metabolism. 102

Joseph Frank Payne (1840-1910). [History of the College Club]. 103

Henry Head (1861-1940). Destroyers and other verses. 105

[Eric Gill] (1882-1940). [New Testament]. 106

Robert Platt (1900-78) et al. [Smoking and health]. 107

Douglas Black (1913-2002). [Harveian oration]. 108

Bibliography 110