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RefNo	NHS20/5/14/1
Title	Lectures given to the Natural History Society, University of Edinburgh, written out by William Younge
AdminHistory	One of the original medical officers of the Sheffield General Infirmary (later Royal Infirmary), where he acted as physician, 1797 - 1838; the anonymous letter proposing the founding of a general infirmary in 1787 is attributed to him. A native of Sheffield, he went to Edinburgh in 1782 and took his MD degree there in 1786.
Description	Including a lecture on rhubarb and its different species; observations on the toad; observations on the melioration of phlogisticated air by vegetables; the nomenclature of fossils; at back: address to the inhabitants of Sheffield and its neighbourhood on the founding of a general infirmary, 1789, with Younge's commentary and further notes, c.1793 With typescript list of contents
Date	1782 - c. 1793
Extent	1 volume
AccessStatus	Open
Level	Item
RelatedMaterial	Correspondence relating to this item, 1984 (NHS20/5/1/5)

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