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Scope and Contents
Notes and extracts about life in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1889-1904; notes on a speech by Sir Joseph Lister 1891; notes on Residency Log 1911-1912; correspondence 1968-1971
Dates:
1889-1971
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1106
Scope and Contents
The lectures are noted as having been taken down in 1705. They are written in shorthand. Type of shorthand is unknown. The writer is unknown. The notes in the volume cover 228 pages. Title page statesNotes of Gregory's clinical lectures. There is a rear index of contents in longhand.
Note: James Gregory (d.1731) is probably the only Gregory among this fanous family able to have actually given lectures in 1705.
Dates:
1705
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
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1281
Scope and Contents
The notes taken down into this small bound pocket note-book of 131 handwritten pages are believed to have formed part of the Guy's lecture series - 'Elements in the Practice of Physic'. One of the early pages bears the inscription 'John Bethell, Lincoln's Inn Field' but it isn't clear if this was the same individual who took the notes or someone who subsequently owned them. The volume may be particularly important in that the contents significantly pre-date - when compared - the...
Dates:
1774-1776
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-894
Scope and Contents
The medical notes were written 1850-1851. The lecturers were Sellers, Alison, and Home, though one lecture was by Southwood Smith. The notes are unsigned and there are two different sets of handwriting. The volume of manuscript is supported with a transcript - typescript document.
Dates:
1850-1851
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-11
Scope and Contents
The papers cover the years 1876 to 1910 and contains a great many autograph letters from eminent anatomists and medical men, including ten letters from Joseph Lister. There is also a substantial sequence of notebooks and working papers containing detailed notes of experiments and dissections together with drawings and drafts for lectures, and a separate sequence of manuscripts for lectures and addresses. An item of particular interest is an album of 96 photographs from Cunningham's service...
Dates:
c 1876-1910
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1320
Scope and Contents
This archive contains the working papers of Sir Ian Wilmut, including copies of published scientific papers, papers relating to Wilmut's scientific research including applications for funding, correspondence with the public and with various organisations, and material regarding the press and media and Wilmut's public appearances. The papers relate to Wilmut's work at the ARC Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biology at Cambridge, the Animal Breeding Research Organisation (later the...
Dates:
1969-2011
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-819
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: manuscript volume of which first page is headedWestminster Infirmary for diseases of the eye; and, bundles of manuscript notes contained in two boxes, and on medical subjects.
Dates:
1804-1820
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-16
Scope and Contents
5 boxes of correspondence between himself and a variety of individuals (including James Watt, Prince Paul Dashkov, John Robison) and on a variety of subjects: linen bleaching, use of lime water, assays of ores, civic water supply, mineralogical specimens, absorption of heat etc
1 box of family letters between Black, his father and his brothers Samuel, George and Thomas
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Dates:
1746-1799
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1586
Scope and Contents
Section A, Biographical, is very slight. It includes an obituary and a copy of Pollock's curriculum vitae. Of particular note are correspondence and papers relating to Pollock's difficulties in obtaining a visa to visit the USA in 1967 and 1970.Section B, Medical Research Council, documents Pollock's time at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Mill Hill, London, from 1948 to 1964, shortly before his departure for Edinburgh....
Dates:
ca 1934-2000
