Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh )

Scope and Contents Seventeen volumes of lectures notes by Victor Field Usher, a medical student at the University of Edinburgh in 1902-1907, who became the first physician to introduce Arsphenamine (the first effective treatment for syphilis, developed by Prof. Paul Ehrlich) to the UK. The fonds includes: Three volumes entitled Practice of Medicine - Gibson, Philip & Bruce containing...

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Creator: Taylor, William, fl. 1883 (student); Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh)

Chiene (John) Notes of lectures on surgery taken by W. Taylor in Edinburgh University in 1883-84, 85-86. 1 volume. Includes some printed material and illustrations throughout.

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of two letters.The first is dated Edinburgh, 27 June 1908, and is from "your old friends", the "other surviving members" of the Round Table Club, to "Dear McKendrick". It goes on: "thank you very heartily for your labour of love. You bring back very vividly those happy times, and make us young again. We are especially grateful to you for what you say of those who have got [sic] before us, and we again see and hear their friends faces and their songs and...