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Verlag: 40 Moray Place Edinburgh; 9 January, 1854
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to reverse. Folded twice. With Christison's expansive signature, and written while Story future Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow was studying at the University of Edinburgh. If he is not 'prevented by professional occupations, which are apt to be rather pressing at this season', it will give him great pleasure 'to attend on the occasion of the delivering of the address of Sir E. B. Lytton to the Associated Societies of the University on the evening of Wednesday the 18th. Instant'. The subject of the letter is the novelist and Whig MP (1803-1873), later Lord Bulwer-Lytton. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.
Verlag: 11 April ; Edinburgh, 1846
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
Christison was the author of a standard Victorian textbook of toxicology and founder of a medical dynasty; see his 1885 autobiography and his entry in the Oxford DNB (the latter also contains an entry for Bowman). 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged. Folded twice, with small closed tear at edge of one fold. Looping stylized signature 'R. Christison'. He begins by referring to 'a previous communication received from the South of England on the subject of the Nitrate of Iron as a remedy for chronic diarrhoea'. He assumes that 'Dr Graves' took his information from 'some old pupil of mine, who, carrying away with him the main fact, had forgotten the original purpose of the remedy, and ascribed the suggestion of it to myself', when in fact 'the gentleman who first proposed the nitrate of sesquioxide of iron was Mr. Wm. Kerr, at one time surgeon in Paisley, and now of Glasgow'. He gives a reference to a paper in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal which gives 'his observations, with the mode of preparing it'. Christison has only to add to the statement made there that he has 'occasionally used it, and found reason to be satisfied of its efficacy'.