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Three letters from Joseph Lister to his French translator, with annotated drawings of wound-dressings
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2057
Content Description
Autograph letters from the pioneer of anti-septic surgery Joseph Lister to his French translator Dr Gustave Burginon, with annotated diagrams explaining the application of bandages and the design of a splint. Dates: 14th December 1877, 11th November 1878, 25th November 1878.
Dates:
14 December 1877; 11 November 1878; 25 November 1878
Three medical notebooks, two of which relate to Alexander Woodcock fl. 1833-1845
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1483
Scope and Contents
The Alexander Woodcock notebooks contain:
Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology - Alexander Jardine Lizar - notebook noted 5 November 1833
Lectures on Chemistry - Doctor Hope - 11 July 1845
A third volume contains:
Notes from 1 September 1843 - 20 July 1844 -...
Dates:
1833-1845
Three notebooks and two letters of John Middleton Murry
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-480
Identifier: Coll-2097
Content Description
This fonds consists of three notebooks and two letters written by John Middleton Murray.The first notebook contains texts written between 1915 and 1917, including an autobiographical essay and the first part of John Middleton Murry's verse drama 'Cinnamon and Angelica'. The second notebook contains the remainder of 'Cinnamon and Angelica', dated 3-24 December 1917. The third notebook contains notes on French and English literature and two journal entries, dated 19 April 1921 and...
Dates:
1915-1923; 1938-1939
Three volumes of manuscript student notes on lectures presented by David Hume
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1706
Identifier: Coll-2025
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of student manuscript notes written by unidentified students in Edinburgh, ca 1815-1819, on David Hume's lectures. The volumes do not have main titles, but have section headings throughout, subjects include: feudal rights; charter; instrument of sasine; state of vassal's titles, etc.
Dates:
c 1815-1819
Tickets for events organised by the Caledonian Club of New York, designed by John Allan
Collection
Identifier: Coll-2922
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 23 engraved tickets for events organised by the Caledonian Club of New York, dated around 1830-1840. The cards were designed by John Allan and engraved by various well-known American engravers.The majority of the cards are for the Annual Caledonian Ball and incorporate images such as Scottish dancing, bagpiping, references to Scottish history, thistles, tartan, castles and snippets of Scottish verse (almost entirely drawn from the works of Robert...
Dates:
c 1830 - c 1840
Timothy L. S. Sprigge Archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1154
Scope and Contents
The Sprigge collection of papers at E2008.47 is composed of:
- curriculum vitae, life-diary (key events), and unpublished papers including 'What I believe'
- photographs
- obituaries
- letters from philosophers, 1967-2003
- copy of Ph.D thesis: 'The limits of morals defined'
- Spinoza - lecture notes - adult...
Dates:
1960-2009
Todd, Jane
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-35
Scope and Contents
Diploma of Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital 1885; nurse's Midwifery Diploma 1885
Dates:
1885
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Toms, Bridget S.
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-57
Scope and Contents
"Before they call" by William Edwin Toms, an account of his daughter Bridget's treatment for brain tumour under Professor Norman Dott in 1945
Dates:
[c1992?]
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Tracts [belonging to] Herbert Kennedy
Fonds
Identifier: MS KEN 2
Scope and Contents
Composite manuscript volume containing:Item 1: Titled 'Tractatus logicus A Mr Herberto Kennedy philosphice professore; facile messiodo conncinncot et in quatuor partes pronumero mentis operiction redactus nec non a me George Benedicto dilliganter conscriste.'[Tractatus Logicus By Mr. Herbert Kennedy, professor of philosophy; easily compiled and edited into four parts, with a mind for the purpose of understanding, and diligently written by me, George Benedict.]...
Dates:
1684; 1737
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Tragara Press archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1571
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 14 letters from Alan Anderson to Donald Weeks about his Corvine pamphlets (published by the Tragara Press) - 10 manuscript and 4 typescript, some with 72 Dundas Street letter-heading, some with 137 Warrender Park Road. The letters are dated: 23 August 1974, Wednesday 10 September, 1 October 1979, 29 July 1980, 17 August 1981, 7 November 1983, 14 November 1983, 23 July 1983, 15 December 1983, 18 January 1985, 21 February 1985, 23 May 1985, Tuesday,...
Dates:
1974-1985