| Administrative History | Hermann Boerhaave was born in 1668 in Voorhout in the Netherlands and was educated at Harderwijk and Leiden, where he spent his professional life. He held several senior posts at the university there, including Professor of Medicine, and was the first great clinical medicine teacher. His teachings influenced other European schools of medicine, including Edinburgh. His works include material on medicine and on chemistry. He died in Leiden in 1738. |
| Custodial History | Part of a bookplate of 'Bradford, M.D.' is in the front flyleaf of Volume I. |
| Source | The volumes were bequeathed in 1792 to Marischal College by Sir William Fordyce (1724-1792), physician and Rector of Marischal College. Sir William Fordyce was born in Aberdeen in 1724, the fifth son of Provost John Fordyce of Aberdeen, and educated at Marischal College there. He spent some time as a surgeon with the army in France before returning to London where his reputation as a skilful physician was quickly established. In 1770 he was created MD at Cambridge and was admitted licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1786. He was knighted in 1782. Fordyce was elected Rector of Marischal College in 1790 and 1791. At his death in 1792, he bequeathed his medical library to Marischal College, and founded the lectureship in agriculture.
MS 2127/10 was originally part of MS 2872, a collection of miscellaneous scientific texts found together in one storage area in the library. As this item is identical to the other volumes in this collection, it has been reunited with this collection. |
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