An Autograph Letter of Dr. Rene Laennec

THE Deputy Keeper of the Public Records of Northern Ireland has kindly allowed us to reproduce th,is attendance or class certificate issued by Doctor Laennec in 1826 to John Creery Ferguson (Figure 1). John Ferguson was a native of Tandragee, County Armagh. Born in 1802, he received the degree of M.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and became eventually the second professor of medicine in the Belfast medical school. He was appointed to the chair of medicine in the new Queen's College at Belfast on its foundation in 1849, and, occupied it until 1865. He was attending physician at the Belfast General Hospital from 1853 (Moody and Beckett 1959).