Finding Aid for the Benjamin Moseley Correspondence Biomed.0241

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.

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Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 2.

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Title: Benjamin Moseley correspondence

Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0241

Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 sheet)

Date: 1800 October 27

Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4903768

Scope and Contents

Collection contains letter to Sir Robert Smyth. Moseley bemoans the state of education and the attitudes of students, masters, and clergy in colleges and universities of England. Benjamin Moseley studied in London, Paris, and Leyden; practised in the West Indies; returned to England in 1784; M.D., St. Andrews, 1784; visited continental hospitals; L.R.C.P., 1787; physician to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1788; wrote chiefly on tropical diseases. Stipple engraved portrait (Paye, pinx.; Marie A. Bourlier, sculp.) of Moseley accompanies the letter.