Lectures Notes of Sir Robert Christison

Box 1 (Dk.4.56/1): Materia Medica and Therapeutics Lectures.
- Small colourful notebooks (1870s): "Cruciferae to Ternstroemiaceae", "Chloroform Chloral and Croton-Chloral", "Valerianaceae to Convolvulaceae", "Solanaceae & Atropaceae","Cuca Papers & Exper[imen]ts", "Ranunculaceae", "Aurantiaceae to Amyridaceae", "Metals", "Acids", "Alkalis & Earths", "Ipecacuan", "Rosaceae Myrtaceae and Cucurbitaceae", "Cinchona Therapeutics", "Cinchona Pharmacy".
- Bundle of beige notebooks - "Dietetics" (1830s): "I. Food", "II. Faulty Food & its Effects"; "III. The Proper Food for Man in Various Circumstances of Life", "IV. Therapeutics of Food".
- Brown wrapping: "Opium", "On General Therapeutics or The General Acition of Remedies", "Drink. Diluent. Extempore Prescriptions, and "Introduction to the Vegetable Materia Medica".
- Bundle of beige notebooks - "Mercury".
- Loose beige notebooks: "On the Continued Fever of Edinburgh" (1835), "Retrospect of the most important cases in the male clinical wards, session 1835-6, comprising Febr. March. April 1836 - my concluding lecture that year" (1836).

Box 2 (Dk.4.56/2): Materia Medica and Therapeutics Lectures.
- Loose letter from chemist David Meldrum to Sir Robert Christison dated 3 May 1872, in which he sends him an extract of "chlorodyne" by the recommendations of Dr J. Johnston of London, and his brother Dr Robert Johnston of Kirkcaldy.
- Beige notebooks of numbered and dated lectures: Lecture 1st - 1833 ("Introduction on the hisotry of the Materia Medica Chair in the University, and on the outline of course and principles of teaching - this comprises lectures 1 & 2 of my first course in 1832-3"); Lecture 3rd - 1832 ("Digestibility of Food"); Lecture 4th - 1832 ("On the nutritive power of vegetable principles coumpound aliments); Lecture 6th - 1832 ("On the nutritiveness digestibility of animal & vegetable aliments"); Lecture 20th - 1832 ("Antimony - Therapeutics); Lecture 21 - 1832 ("On the mode of action of remedies and modifying circumstances - on Pharmacopeia"); Lecture 24th [no year] ("I.III. Bismuth / I.A.Tin / I.5.Silver / I.6. Gold"); Lecture 36th [no year] ("Mineral acids"); Lecture 37th [no year] ("On the organic acids"); Lecture 42nd [no year] ("The Alkalis, Earths, and their Salts / 3. Ammonia / 4. Lime"); Lecture 38th [no year] ("On the Oragnic Acids. 10. Hydrocyanic acid"); Lecture 40th ("The Alkalis, Earths and their Salts / 1 Potash"); Lecture 52nd ("On the Chemical Operations of Pharmacy"); Lecture 52 (originally 49th, crossed out) ("On the Collection and Preservation of vegetable simples"); Lecture 53 (originally 50th, crossed out) ("On the Preparation of Vegetables and Pharmacentric Operations Generally" - cover only); Lecture 51st ("On the Mechanical Operations of Pharmacy"). Also includes one blue notebook, Lecture 28th, "i.g. On Antimony".
- Beige notebooks - lectures: "introductory - 1837"; "A New Introductory 1851 / A New Introductory 1873 and 1874"; "Acids"; "Arseni"; "Alkalis and Earths"; "Alkalis, Earths, & their Compounds"; "Iron"; "Lead"; "Lime / Baryta / Magnesia /Alumina"; "On Condiments"; "Exercise"; "I. Non-metallic Oxidifiable Elements"; "III. Metals & their compounds"; "On Pharmacopeias"; "IV. Compound Inflammables"; "On the Action of Medicines" (3 x notebooks); "On Drink" (2 x notebook); "Mineral Waters" (2 x notebooks); "Old lectures .
- In wrappings: "Ranunculae"; "Cinchona"; "Old Lectures on Mineral Waters written ... in 1833".

Box 2 (Dk.4.57): Medical Jurisprudence Lectures.
- "Death by External Injuries" (4x notebooks);
- "Death by Asphyxia" (x 6 notebooks);
- Lectures relating to poisoning (7x notebooks);
- Lectures (x4 notebooks): "I. On Rape"; "III. On Premature & Deferred Births / IV. On the Signs of Recent Delivery / V. On the marks of the age fo the Foetus"; "VII. Procuring Abortion"; "VIII. Concealment of Pregnancy and Infanticide"
- Additional lectures (x3 notebooks): "Introductory Lecture"; "On Medico-Legal Inspections"; "On Insurances and Friendly Societies".
- Bundle of loose medico-legal notes, untitled.