Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de calore: : quod, annuente summo numine. Ex Auctoritate reverendi admodum Viri, Gulielmi Robertson, S. S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae praefecti; nec non Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae facultatis medicae Decreto, Pro Gradu Doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; / eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus M'clurg, Virginiensis.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

McClurg, James, approximately 1746-1823 95523

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G., 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Balfour, Auld and Smellie, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heat--73546.

Heat.

Physical Description:

[4], 52 p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgi: : Apud Balfour, Auld, et Smellie, academiae typographos., M,DCC,LXX. [1770]

Notes:

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 1770.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Bound with Tilton, Dissertatio medica, q.v.; item 7 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (119); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

HSP copy inscribed: For Dr. Franklin from one who has the highest admiration & esteem for him. The author.

Cited in:

ESTC (BL) T008590