Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de pneumonia : quod annuente summo numine : ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS. T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : necnon amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto : pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis /
Lyon, Gilbert,1803-1873.
Lyon, Gilbert,1803-1873,inscriber.StEdNL
Johnstone, William,active 1823,former owner.StEdNL
Baird, George Husband,1761-1840.
Edinburgi : Excudebat Joannes Moir,
MDCCCXXIII [1823]
With a half title page.
Kalendis Augusti, horâ locoque solitis.--title page.
The thesis was submitted by Gilbert Lyon, who was from a plantation owning family that had settled in Jamiaca. George Husband Baird (1761-1840) was the principal of Edinburgh University.

Manuscript inscription on the verso of the third leaf "To William Johnstone Esqr / As a mark of esteem and respect and for the many kindnesses shown by him to the author".
Medical thesis bound in black straight grain morocco by an unidentified Edinburgh[?] bookbinder in late 17th/early 18th century style.
Pneumonia.
Scotland Edinburgh.