The British Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Collection is a collection of medical

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submitted to Dutch universities at Amsterdam, Utrecht, Harlingen, and

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. It includes, in particular, a fine set of Leyden medical dissertations and disputations for the period 1593 to 1746. The collection is in 53 volumes, all bound in white

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, with 20 to 75 documents in each volume. The collection was formed principally by

Hans Sloane Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Irish physician, naturalist, and collector. He had a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British ...

.Leyden Medical Dissertations, 1593-1746.
British Library 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

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