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Medical Commonplace Book of George Brock
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1124
Scope and Contents
The volume has the armorial book-plate of George Brock M.D. (Georgius Brock M.D.). The text in the volume begins with a quotation from Cullen, so the author of the manuscript was doubtless a follower or student of Cullen whose name is invoked several times subsequently. To begin with the text is concerned with materia medica and the nutritional qualities of foodstuffs. later the text is more various, with topics including physiology and also asphyxiation. A dispute within the Royal College of...
Dates:
1820
Notebooks of lectures at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1919
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 20 notebooks containing notes on legal and medical lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr. Also includes some class cards, exam papers, and ephemera of Robert Low Orr.
Robert Low Orr: Lectures on Metaphysics (Fraser)
Robert Low Orr: Law lectures (Muirhead, Macpherson)
Robert Low Orr: Scots law...
Dates:
1873-1886
Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1910
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of notes of lectures given by Charles Alston, entitled 'A treatise on the materia medica ... from the lectures of Charles Alston, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians and Professor of Botany at Edinburgh. 1733'. 183 x 165 mm, rebound. They bear the armorial bookplate of Alexander Russell, M.D. It is possible that this is the Alexander Russell that studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated in 1779.
Dates:
1733
Papers of Professor Andrew Duncan, junior
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-7
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Andrew Duncan at Dc.1.90 include letters and other material mostly about his travels and studies abroad. At Gen. 61-66 are notes of lectures on Materia Medica delivered between 1831 and 1832. There are also notes for his Edinburgh Dispensary (1803).
Dates:
circa 1818-1832
Treatise of the Materia Medica
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1127
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume begins: ' A treatise of the Materia Medica in which the Virtues of all the Simples of the three Kingdoms are truly described and they have been fully demonstrated by the accurate Observations of many truly celebrated Authors and particularly of the learned Dr. Charles Alston Professor of the Materia Medica and Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Reg. Prof. Botan'. The text in the manuscript volume is organised into the following components:...
Dates:
1745-1747
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