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Excerpt from Account of the Life and Works of Maister Peter Lowe, the Founder of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Creighton, of London, was good enough to send me his notes bearing on Peter Lowe's translation from Hippocrates, and also to look up for me, in the British Museum, some further points on this subject. Prof. John Ferguson, of Glasgow, and Dr. Wickham Legg, of London, likewise furnished, from their stores of bibliographical knowledge, some help in this inquiry. My friend Mr. T. Windsor, of Manchester, forwarded, at my request, some notes which he had accumulated on Peter Lowe and his works these I have printed in an Appendix. My nephew, Mr. Archibald Fleming, made several searches for me at the Register House in Edinburgh. In addition, I am under very special obligations to one of my Clinical Assistants, Dr. John Love, who during the last year has made a multitude of inquiries and extracts for me 5 during the printing of these sheets he has com pared the quotations and verified the references whenever the books quoted could be obtained in Glasgow, except in a few cases where I did so myself: it seemed important to aim at as much accuracy as possible in this respect. The Council of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons gave me permission to have Peter Lowe's Portrait reproduced by the Photogravure process and I have to acknowledge the kindness of the friend who supplied two litho graphic drawings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
