Beddome's oldest son borrows a book

It is of limited interest, but we know that on Thursday, June 6, 1776, Beddome's son Benjamn borrowed Gilchrist on Sea Voyages, which he was free to keep for a fortnight, having paid a five shilling deposit. This was from the Edinburgh University Library. Beddome Junior had begun studying medicine in the university the year before. Scotsman Ebenezer Gilchrist (1707-1774) published The use of sea voyages in medicine in London in 1756, the second edition coming out with a supplement the next year. The Edinburgh copy was borrowed 49 times between 1769 and 1789. Gilchrist was one of the first doctors to recommend sea travel for the good of a person's health. One of Gilchrist's earliest writings was on typhus, the disease Benjamin Junior died from at the beginning of 1778. See here.