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John Rowand Fonds
Fonds
13 cm of textual records (4 items)
John Rowand was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. Later, he became Assistant-surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital of Montreal, ca. 1782.
Transferred from Medical Library in 1958. Old accessions numbers 345, 400, 457.
The fonds consists of John Rowand's manuscript notebooks of lectures in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, 1780-1782. The material is divided into 4 folders: 1. Dr. Alexander Monro on surgery; 2. Dr. Andrew Duncan on the Practice of medicine; 3. Dr. William Irvine's chemical lectures vol. 1; 4. Dr. William Irvine's chemical lectures vol. 2.
The documents are in English.
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