In parentheses, I list the publisher, primary city of publication (when more than one is indicated I note the first listed), and publication year, when known. In some cases, I list editions that may not be substantively different from other editions. Note that this is not—at least not yet—a comprehensive bibliography, although I do provide a majority of the works and editions that someone who wants to study the thought of William Cullen might wish to read.
For more detailed bibliographic information about the copy linked to—its physical identity, the library that holds it, its shelfmark, ETSC Citation ID, etc—I link to entries in the wonderful Eighteenth Century Book Tracker (BT) database. For instance, by clicking on the BT links next to the 1789 Edinburgh edition of Cullen’s A Treatise of the Materia Medica, you can see that the digital copies I link to (both volumes) are held, in physical form, at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich at shelfmark(s) (‘die Signatur’ in German) 4 M.med. 59 k-1 & k-2 (forming a complete set).
Thus, a full citation for a digital text looks like this (in generic form):
Title (or Volume number), (Publisher | City of Publication, Year), {BT}
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Works Edited or Written by John Thomson, regarding William Cullen
The Works of William Cullen (William Blackwood | Edinburgh, 1827)
Volume 1
Volume 2
Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen
Volume 1 (William Blackwood | Edinburgh, 1832)
Volume 2 (William Blackwood and Sons | Edinburgh, 1859)
Volume 1 (William Blackwood and Sons | Edinburgh, 1859 [1832 reissue])
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Principal Works Published by William Cullen (during his lifetime)
SYNOPSIS NOSOLOGIAE METHODICAE
Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (*None listed* | Edinburgh, 1769)
Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (A. Kincaid & W. Creech | Edinburgh, 1772)
Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (William Creech | Edinburgh, 1780)
Volume 1
Volume 2
Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (William Creech | Edinburgh, 1785)
*Note that the title pages in this edition are reversed, i.e. Volume 1 contains the title page for Volume 2 and vice versa.
Volume 1
Volume 2
INSTITUTIONS OF MEDICINE. PART I. PHYSIOLOGY
Institutions of Medicine. Part I. Physiology (*None listed* | Edinburgh, 1772)
Institutions of Medicine. Part I. Physiology (W. Creech | Edinburgh, 1777)
Institutions of Medicine. Part I. Physiology (Charles Elliot | Edinburgh, 1785) {BT}
FIRST LINES OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC
First Lines of the Practice of Physic (William Creech | Edinburgh, 1777)
Volume 1
Volume 2
First Lines of the Practice of Physic (William Creech | Edinburgh, 1778)
“Second Edition, Corrected”
Volume 1
Volume 2
First Lines of the Practice of Physic (William Creech | Edinburgh, 1781)
“Third Edition, Corrected”
Volume 1
Volume 2
First Lines of the Practice of Physic (Charles Elliot | Edinburgh, 1784)
“A New Edition. Corrected, Enlarged, and Completed in Four Volumes.”
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
First Lines of the Practice of Physic (Charles Elliot | Edinburgh, 1789)
This is almost certainly a reprint (perhaps with minor corrections, initiated by the printer/publisher) of the 1784 edition, but I have not verified this.
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
A TREATISE OF THE MATERIA MEDICA
A Treatise of the Materia Medica (Charles Elliot | Edinburgh, 1789)
Volume 1 {BT}
Volume 2 {BT}
A Treatise of the Materia Medica (Luke White | Dublin, 1789)
Volume 1
Volume 2
A LETTER TO LORD CATHCART
A Letter to Lord Cathcart, Concerning the Recovery of Persons Drowned, and Seemingly Dead (John Murray | London, 1776)
A Letter to Lord Cathcart, Concerning the Recovery of Persons Drowned, and Seemingly Dead (Charles Elliot | Edinburgh, 1784)
AN ESSAY ON THE COLD PRODUCED BY EVAPORATING FLUIDS
Of the Cold produced by Evaporating Fluids, and of some other Means of producing Cold; by Dr. William Cullen Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow in Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary. Read before a Society in Edinburgh, and published by them. Volume II. Art. VII. pp. 145-156 (G. Hamilton & J. Balfour | Edinburgh, 1756).
Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quick-Lime, and Other Alcaline Substances by Joseph Black, to Which is Annexed, An Essay on the Cold Produced by Evaporating Fluids, and Of some other means of producing Cold by William Cullen (William Creech | Edinburgh, 1782)
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Works ‘by’ William Cullen
The ‘by’ in the title above indicates that the following works are not really publications by Cullen, in the normal sense. They are transcriptions from student notes of his lectures that were subsequently published, usually without his permission.
Lectures on the Materia Medica, As Delivered by William Cullen, M.D. (Thomas Ewing | Dublin, 1773)
Lectures on the Materia Medica, As Delivered by William Cullen, M.D. Now Published by Permission of the Author (T. Lowndes | London, 1773)
Clinical Lectures, Delivered in the Years 1765 and 1766, by William Cullen M.D., taken in Short-hand by a Gentleman who attended (Lee and Hurst | London, 1797)
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Works about, or connected to, William Cullen
An Author’s Conduct to the Public, Stated in the Behaviour of Dr. William Cullen by John Murray (J. Murray | London, 1784)
A Letter from a Citizen of Edinburgh, to Doctor Puff by Anonymous (*None Listed* | Edinburgh, 1764)
A Funeral Oration in Honour of Miss Jeany Muir, A Celebrated Lady of Pleasure by Miss Betty Montgomery, Her dear Friend and Successor by Anonymous (*None Listed* | Amsterdam)
A Treatise on the Influence of the Moon in Fevers by Francis Balfour, M.D. (Charles Elliot | Edinburgh, 1784). “Reprinted, by the Desire and Recommendation of William Cullen, M.D.”
First Lines of Physiology by Albrecht von Haller. Translated from the Correct Latin Edition Printed under the Inspection of William Cullen, M.D. And Compared with the Edition published by H.A. Wrisberg, M.D. Volume 1 (Charles Elliot | Edinburgh, 1786)
