Walking the Paris hospitals
Subtitle: diary of an Edinburgh medical student, 1834-1835
By: edited by Diana E. Manuel.
Contributors: Manuel, Diana E.
Series: Medical history.; no. 23
Publisher: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Surrage, James -- Diaries.; Medical students -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Diaries.; Hospitals -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.; Hospitals -- history.; Paris (France).
Genres: Diaries.
Description: This work is based on an untitled, anonymous manuscript diary, containing a vividly written and often lively sequence of daily entries, covering the period from 1 November 1834 to 30 June 1835. It encompasses an academic year, in this case spent in Paris. Explicit details of authorship are absent but internal evidence throughout indicates that the author was a final year medical student from the University of Edinburgh.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194) and index.
"This work is based on an untitled, anonymous manuscript diary ..." -- p. 1.
"Further evidence within the diary strongly suggests that the diarist was James Surrage ..." -- p. 1.
Original manuscript is MS 7147 in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London.