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Inscription on flyleaf: ‘The Library (from the Author)’

Stamped on flyleaves: ‘London Hospital Medical College’

Articles by various authors.

Full title: Medical Commentaries for the Year M.DCC.XCIV. Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine and Medical Philosophy, collected and published by Andred Duncan, M.D.F.R.&A.SS.Ed.’

Ex libris of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow pasted inside the front cover, inscribed ‘7th Oct 1869’ (Vol I); ‘8th Jan 1870’ (Vol II); ‘9th Jan 1871’ (Vol IV); ‘27/5/71’ (Vol V)

Second edition. Five volumes (Vol III missing): I (General Pathology); II (Local Injuries. Diseases of the Eye); III (Operative Surgery; Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense, Respiration, Circulation, Locomotion, and Innervation); IV (Diseases of the Organs of Digestion, of the Genito-Urinary System, of the Breast, Thyroid Gland, and Skin; Appendix of Miscellaneous Subjects); V (Diseases of the Genital Organs, of the Breast, Thyroid Glad, and Skin; Operative Surgery)

Inscription on title page (Vol I): ‘London Hospital Medical Library 1904’

Four volumes: I (General Pathology); II (Local Injuries. Diseases of the Eye); III (Operative Surgery; Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense, Respiration, Circulation, Locomotion, and Innervation); IV (Diseases of the Organs of Digestion, of the Genito-Urinary System, of the Breast, Thyroid Gland, and Skin; Appendix of Miscellaneous Subjects)

Full title: ‘Practical Observations on the Treatment of the Diseases of the Prostate Glad. Illustrated by Copper-plates. To which is added, a Letter from Professor Brande to the Author, on Calculi, From the Philosophical Transactions’

Given by St George’s Hospital Medical School for Physiology Prize (session 1849-50) to W.B. Stephens

Full title: ‘On the Nature and Treatment of Stomach and Renal Diseases; Being an Inquiry into the Connexion of Diabetes, Calculus, and other Affections of the Kidney and Bladder, with Indigestion’

Fifth edition

Contains multiple texts. Includes some manuscript notes in the margins.

Full titles:

‘A Treatise of the Urinary Passages. Containing their Description, Powers, and Uses; Together with the Principal Distempers that affect the; in particular the Stone of the Kidneys and Bladder, As deliver’d at the Gulstonian Lecture in the Theatre of the Royal College of Physicians, London, on the 17th, 18th and 19th Days of March 1725 by William Rutty, M.D. Fellow of the said College, of the Royal Society, and Reader of Anatomy at Surgeons-Hall’.

'Dissertatio de Structura et Motu Musculari, Auctore Alexandro Stuart, M.D. Serenissimae Carolinae Mag.Brit. Etc. nuper. Regin. Med. Ord. Coll. Reg. Med. Lond. & R.S.S.’

The inside cover reveals the book was once owned by Mr Frederick G. Peck of St George's Hospital before being presented to the Medical School Library.

Embryology, Vol. I, Part I
General Anatomy or Histology, Vol. I, Part II
Osteology, Vol. II, Part I
Arthrology, Myology, Angeiology, Vol. II, Part II
The Spinal Cord and Brain, Vol. III, Part I
The Nerves, Vol. III, Part II
Organs of the Senses, Vol. III, Part III
Splanchnology, Vol. III, Part IV
Superficial and Surgical Anatomy, Appendix

Tenth edition

Vol. XIII: Sarcoma Melanodes or Hebra; Ringworm, Pityriasis
Vol. XIV: Frambcesial Syphilis (Yaws and Paragi)
Vol. XIV: Leucoderma; Myxcedema; Miscelleaneous; Eruptions caused by drugs
Vol. XV: Drug Eruptions
Vol. XVI: Bromide Eruptions; Lichens Urticatus; Pemphigus Vegetans
Vol. XVI: Coxa Vara
Vol. XVII: Fractures & Dislocations of the Upper Extremity
Vol. XVIII & XIX: Elephantiasis in English Practice, Symmetrical Lupus Vulgaris' the potato-like tumour of neck, Schistosoma Cattoi
Vol. XVIII: Eruptions, Urticaria Pigmentose, Leprosy
Vol. XXV: Diseases of Fallopian Tube Ovary, Uterus

Inscription on title page: ‘25.9.’31’

With an introduction by Humphry Rolleston

Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Presented to the St George’s Medical Library by the Author Dec 7th 1860’

Full title: ‘Contributions to the Chemistry of Urine. On the Variations in the Alkaline and Earthy Phosphates in the Healthy State, and on the Alkalescence of the Urine from Fixed Alkalies’

Inscription on title page: ‘Presented to the St George’s Hospital Library by Mr Willisford 1836’

Full title: ‘Dr Boerhaave’s Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic Being a Genuine Translation of his Institutes and Explanatory Comment, Collated and adjusted to each other, as they were dictated to this Students at the University of Leyden’

Inscription on title page: ‘For the Medical Library of St George’s Hospital, from the Author’

Includes a paper relating to a coin swallowed by Isambard Brunel

Inscriptions inside front cover and on flyleaves: ‘Presented to the St George’s Hospital Library by Mr Brodie Sep 1817’, ‘Well. Campbell Sep 21st 1794’, ‘P. Pasquier’

Tenth edition