Author:John Coakley Lettsom

John Coakley Lettsom
(1744–1815)

John Coakley Lettsom

Works

• The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for collecting and preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general. London: E. and C. Dilly (1773); 3rd edit. 1799
• Reflections on the General Treatment and Cure of Fevers 8vo, 1772.
• The Natural History of the Tea Tree, with Observations on its Medical Qualities, &c., 4to, London, 1772; 2nd edit. 1799. [An expansion of his Leyden dissertation] (transcription project)
• History of the Origin of Medicine, an Oration at the Medical Society, 4to, 1778.
• Hints respecting the Chlorosis of Boarding Schools, 8vo, 1795.
• Observations on the Cow Pock, 1st edit. 4to, 1801 (privately printed); 2nd edit. 8vo, 1801
• Life of John Fothergill,’ in his ‘Works’ (edited by Lettsom, 3 vols. 8vo, 1783); one vol. 4to, 1784. The fourth edition of the ‘Memoirs,’ 8vo, 1786, contains also memoirs of William Cuming, George Cleghorn, Alexander Russell, and Peter Collinson.
• ‘Recollections of Dr. Rush,’ 8vo, London, 1815.
• ‘Hints designed to Promote Beneficence, Temperance, and Medical Science,’ 3 vols. 8vo, 1801.

Papers

• twenty-seven papers in the ‘Memoirs,’ 1792–1805, and the ‘Transactions of the Medical Society of London,’ 1810.
• Some Remarks on the Effects of Lignum Quassiæ Amaræ (Memoirs, vol. i.)
• On the Effects of Hard Drinking, 4to, 1791
• memoir of William Hewson (‘Trans. Med. Soc.’ vol. i. pt. i.),
• memoir of James Johnstone (‘Trans. Med. Soc.’ vol. i. pt. ii.)
• memoir of Edward Jenner (oration at Medical Society, 8 March 1804)
• obituary notice of Baron Dimsdale (anonymous, in ‘European Magazine,’ August 1802)

Correspondence

• Letter from The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1780

Works about Lettsom

• "Lettsom, John Coakley," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Memoirs of the life and writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom, M.D., T. J. Pettigrew, 3 vols. 8vo, 1817 (PDF)