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Bound medical lecture notes and certificates of Victor F. Usher

Fonds — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Coll-1886

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...

Dates: 1903-1908

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of Notes of Surgical Cases arising from the Military Action of British Troops in Spain

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-500

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of notes of surgical cases arising from military action of British troops in Spain, 1832-1833, and notes of cases in the general military hospital of San Telmo, San Sebastian, arising from military action of British troops, 1836-1837. There is also a volume of statistical returns of sick and wounded admitted to the military hospitals of the Legion in Spain, 1835-1837.

Dates: 1832-1837

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of offprints entitled "A Collection of Published Works by the Department of Surgery. University of Edinburgh" in three volumes

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Coll-2030

Content Description This is a collection of offprints entitled "A Collection of Published Works by the Department of Surgery. University of Edinburgh". It is divided in three volumes: 1957-1965 (vol. I), 1966-1969 (vol. II), and 1970-1976 (vol. III). The foreword explains that "as an appreciation of the outstanding contribution to Surgical Science and Immunology made by Sir Michael Woodruff during his occupation of the Chair of Surgery (formerly Surgical Science), his colleagues have compiled a collection of...

Dates: 1957-1976

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

John Dollar photograph and bill-head

Fonds — Box: CLX-A-818

Identifier: Coll-1153

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of an imposing photograph of John A. W. Dollar, circa 1904-1905, in his presidential robes - President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons - and a bill with engraved bill-head of the Dollar veterinary practice on New Bond Street, London, with a fine engraved bill-head, a rare survival.The portrait was taken by the firm Elliott and Fry, 55 Baker Street, London W, and is numbered in pencil as No.206440D.The bill with engraved bill-head...

Dates: 1901-1905

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Material relating to Charles Weighton, veterinary surgeon

Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1479, Box: data_value_missing_7179d7c6a47ec6fd570e3f6c903e31a0, Box: data_value_missing_922361260ad8b6a83051dd1f305a8c3d

Identifier: Coll-1606

Content Description

Papers relating to Charles Weighton's veterinary career, including a trocar and canula (instruments designed to treat bloat in cattle) and related papers and leaflets; and various documents and correspondence (1952-1977).

Dates: 1952-1977

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Material relating to the veterinarian, Frederick Kidd

Fonds — Volume: CLX-A-1324, Object: Plan Chest.6., Object: Plan Chest.6.

Identifier: Coll-1695

Scope and Contents

The material is composed of:

- 2 x scrolls or certificates, being: 17 December 1888 - Member of the College of Veterinary Surgery - signed by various individuals; and, 1888-1889 - Edinburgh Veterinary Medical Association - signed by the President, Thomas Wally, the Vice President, J. McFadyean, the Hon. Vice President, A? Baird, the Secretary, C. D. Watkins, and Charles Stevenson the Librarian.

- 1 x notebook of treatments and costs for clients, 1920s to early-1930s.

Dates: 1888-1932

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures given by Alexander Monro (secundus), taken down by unknown person(s)

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-1325

Scope and Contents This volume of notes is based on Monro's surgical lectures at Edinburgh Medical School, 1774-1775. The manuscript lectures are sub-headed Lectures 1-13 and are in two distinct hands - the first two lectures in one, and the rest in another. The paper is watermarked with a crown and the initials GR, undated, but this L.V.Gerrevink paper commonly used throughout much of the 18th century. Both hands are clear and legible, with just a few corrections, and occasional additions written on the verso...

Dates: 1774-1775

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes on the Anatomy and Surgery lectures of Henry Cline and Astley Cooper, taken down by Robert Bickersteth

Collection

Identifier: Coll-1824

Scope and Contents

These ms notes of the lectures on Anatomy and Surgery given by Henry Cline (1750-1827) and Astley Cooper (1768-1841) were taken down by Robert Bickersteth. Cline was a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and Cooper was a surgeon in London too.

The notes are in ink, sometimes on both recto and verso of the leaf, but usually on the rectos only. There are occasional drawings.

Dates: 1805-1806

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Sir George Ballingall

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-53

Scope and Contents The Sir George Ballingall material is composed of correspondence and papers, 1801-1855. In March 1995, when researching in Edinburgh University Library, Dr. Roger Cooter of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, in Manchester, dictated the papers onto tape and produced transcripts of about 70 per cent of the documents, following the order in which they had been placed in the original boxes. The transcripts, produced in haste, and which may not be accurate in detail, have been placed...

Dates: 1801-1855

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Thomas Aitken Dollar

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-726

Scope and Contents

The papers are composed of: an Edinburgh Veterinary College document, being a 'Statement on behalf of ... petitioners for a Veterinary College for Scotland', dated November 1867; a copy of the Pharmacy Act (1868) Amendment; miscellaneous letters to Aitken from 1866 to 1889; newspaper cutting; and, photograph.

Dates: 1866-1889

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Bound medical lecture notes and certificates of Victor F. Usher

Collection of Notes of Surgical Cases arising from the Military Action of British Troops in Spain

Collection of offprints entitled "A Collection of Published Works by the Department of Surgery. University of Edinburgh" in three volumes

John Dollar photograph and bill-head

Material relating to Charles Weighton, veterinary surgeon

Material relating to the veterinarian, Frederick Kidd

Notes of lectures given by Alexander Monro (secundus), taken down by unknown person(s)

Notes on the Anatomy and Surgery lectures of Henry Cline and Astley Cooper, taken down by Robert Bickersteth

Papers of Sir George Ballingall

Papers of Thomas Aitken Dollar

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