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Two sheets only of a Cornish-English vocabulary. The words are not in alphabetical order and the first sheet is practically confined to parts of the body.

A manuscript containing lectures on anatomy, surgery, 'physicke', etc., taken down by Charles George Ireland, together with a letter, 24 May 1798, from William Morgan, Actuary, Equitable Assurance Office, London.

Notes on Greek philosophy, etc. (ff. 85 verso-110 verso, inverted text); notes on a course of anatomy in 1692 (ff. 70-84, inverted text); notes of sermons preached at Llanddyfnan and Pentraeth about 1711, with texts and verses quoted in Welsh and the notes in English (ff. 1 verso-63 verso). This notebook seems to be the work of Robert Morgan, D.D.

A volume, 1816 (watermark 1809), in the hand of Robert Pughe, written whilst a student at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, London, containing notes of lectures on anatomy delivered mostly by Astley Cooper.
Subjects covered include the circulatory system and blood, the nervous system, muscles and bone structure (pp. 1-115), ligaments (pp. 119-135) and the brain (pp. 150-176, inverted text); there are also notes on the treatment of gonorrhoea (pp. 116-118). A contents list for the first series of lectures (pp. 1-115) is on p. 177.

A volume, [c. 1754], in the hand of Richard Pughe, surgeon and apothecary, of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, later of Llanegryn and Hendre, Abergynolwyn, Merioneth, containing notes on human anatomy and physiology taken mainly from William Cheselden, The Anatomy of the Humane Body, 3rd edn (London, 1726) (ff. 1-28 verso), Alexander Monro, The Anatomy of the Human Bones (Edinburgh, 1726) (ff. 29-38 verso), and from lectures delivered by William Bromfield (ff. 39-68), together with medical prescriptions (ff. 101-29 verso, inside back cover).
A short monetary account, 1816, in the hand of the surgeon's grandson Robert Pughe has been added on f. 84 verso.