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Johnstone, Robert William

 Fonds
Identifier: GD11
Scope and Contents

General correspondence 1927-1954; speeches 1913-1954; records of meetings of the G.V.S. 1935-1946; work on medical history 1944-1957; papers and letters regarding the publication of 'William Smellie: the Master of British Midwifery' 1951-1953; miscellaneous 1883, 1938-1945; diary 1929

Dates: 1883-1957

Laws, Amelia Nyasa

 Fonds
Identifier: GD18
Scope and Contents

Published material 1903-1971; papers relating to iridology, osteopathy and other medical specialties c1931-1967; osteopathy patient records 1931-1979; lecture notes 1920s-1930s; photographic material and drawings n.d.; personal and other papers 1899-1939, n.d.

Dates: 1899-1979

Lectures notes taken down by Nicholas Willett Chavasse

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1282
Scope and Contents The bound manuscript volume of Dr. Saunders's Clinical Lectures is dated 25 January 1784, and is noted with the names: Nicholas Willett Chavasse; C.H. Chavasse, June 1805; and Thomas Chavasse, 20 August 1817. Section headings contained in it include: Observations on a cutaneous infection; Observations on a case of chronic Rheumatism; Case of Thoracic inflammation; Observations on a case of Rheumatism; case of Rheumatic Gout; and, Observations on a case of...
Dates: 1784

MacGregor, Jessie McLaren

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-53
Scope and Contents

Birth certificate of J. M. MacGregor 1863; certificates 1881-1895; correspondence 1893-1897; photocopies of newspaper reports of death 1906; photographs; prints of watercolours

Dates: 1863-1906

Manuscript entitled "An Enquiry into the Elements of General Therapeutics, with Special Illustrations, to which is prefixed an Essay on the Nature Value and Utility of Theory" by Robert Abraham

 Collection — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1981
Content Description This is a manuscript on medicine and drugs written by Robert Abraham in 1825 in Carlisle and London.This manuscript comprises three sections, each including an index: Part First. "An Essay on the Nature, Value, and Utility of Theory", starting a few pages before p. 1; Part Second. "An Enquiry &c.' into the nature of narcotics, hypnotics, sleep, coma, mania, &...
Dates: c 1825

Manuscript notebook of Dr Thomas Charles Hope recording medical case histories

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1704
Identifier: Coll-2024
Content Description

Manuscript notebook of Dr Thomas Charles Hope recording medical case histories. The constellation of Dr Hope, Dr Duncan, and Dr Rutherford together with the mention of patients being admitted "into the Infirmary" lead to the ascription of this being notes from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The Dr Duncan mentioned several times in the text is presumably Andrew Duncan (1773-1832), who founded the hospital.

Dates: ca 1796

Manuscript notes on medical lectures taken at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2119
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 18 volumes of manuscript notes taken at medical lectures at the University of Edinburgh between 1873 and 1874. At the front of each volume the subject of the lecture and the name of the lecturer is provided.The subjects covered are: Pathology (Vols. I-IV); Materia Medica (Vols. I-II); Midwifery (Vols. I-IV); Surgery (Vols I, II, and V only); Clinical Surgery (Vols. I-II); Practice of Physic...
Dates: 1873-1874

Manuscript recording the lectures of George Fordyce on inflammatory diseases

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1307
Scope and Contents The manuscript volume - ink on paper - is titled on the spine Fordyce on inflammations. It may have been copied in 1807, which is after Fordyce's death in 1802. The content includes much on venereal disease and other headings include 'hooping cough', 'angina', inflammation of the lungs', 'inflammation of the intestines', 'inflammation of the substances of the liver', 'inflammation of the womb', 'on the causes of cold', 'on catarrh', 'sore throat attended...
Dates: 1807
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript]
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

 Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)

Material relating to Charles A. Anderson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1240
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises an Edinburgh University medal (bronze) awarded to Charles A. Anderson session 1888-1889, for the Senior Surgery class. The medal is mounted in a small case (Alex'r Kirkwood and Son, Medalists, 9 St. James Square, Edinburgh).

Dates: 1888-1889

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Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 2
Monro, Alexander, 'primus', 1697-1767 (Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 2
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 2
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 2
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Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 2
Saunders, William, 1743-1817 (physician) 2
Abraham, Robert, fl 1823-1825 (Physician, journalist and lawyer; University of Edinburgh alumnus) 1
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 1
Anderson, Charles A., fl. 1888-1934 (surgeon) 1
Anderson, John William Johnsten, fl. 1844 (Edinburgh University graduate) 1
Annandale, Thomas, 1838-1907 (surgeon) 1
Ballingall, Sir George, 1780-1855 (Knight | Regius Professor of Military Surgery at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 1
Burditt, William Fotherby, 1849-1931, New Brunswick businessman 1
Burginon, Gustave, fl 1877-1878 (French translator of Joseph Lister's work) 1
Cabbell, J, fl 1750s (medical student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Carruthers, Dr., Samuel William, 1866-1962 (Doctor; Anaesthetist) 1
Chavasse, Nicholas Willett, fl. 1763-1784 (surgeon) 1
Chepmell, Edward Charles, fl. 1844 (Edinburgh University graduate) 1
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 1
Cooter, Roger, b 1948 1
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 1
Cunningham, Daniel John, 1850-1909 (professor of anatomy, Trinity College Dublin) 1
Cunningham, John, 1882-1968 (Lieutenant Colonel | physician and bacteriologist in the Indian Medical Service) 1
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 1
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 1
Duncan, Andrew, 1773-1832 (the younger | British physician) 1
Edenhall Hospital 1
Fleming, Alexander, fl. 1844 (Edinburgh University graduate) 1
Fordyce, George, 1736-1802 (physician) 1
Fotherby, Henry Isaac, 1822-1905, Doctor 1
Fraser, Thomas Richard, Sir, 1841-1920 (physician and pharmacologist, professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Glaister, John, 1892-1971 (Professor of Forensic Medicine at Glasgow University) 1
Graves, William H. Y., 1799-1853, Doctor 1
Gregory, James, d. 1731 (Professor of Medicine, King's College, Aberdeen) 1
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 1
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 1
John, Henry Craven St, 1837-1909 (Royal Navy Officer) 1
Jones, Frederick Denbigh, fl. 1844 (Edinburgh University graduate) 1
Jones, Thomas Cumpston, fl. 1844 (Edinburgh University graduate) 1
Kaufman, Matthew H., Professor, 1942-2013 (Professor of Anatomy) 1
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) 1
Laws, Amelia Nyasa, 1886-1978 (medical practitioner) 1
Lawson, Gordon H K, d 2018 (Researcher, University of Edinburgh) 1
Lister, Sir Joseph, 1827-1912 (1st Baron Lister | British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery) 1
Macaskie, James Griffith, Dr, 1856-1945 (general practitioner) 1
Mackie, Rebecca A, fl 1972-2013 (Biologist) 1
McMillen, Frederick Hugh, fl 1938-1943 (Veterinary student) 1
Murison, Cecil Charles, 1874-1942 (Colonel, Indian Medical Service) 1
NHS Education for Scotland 1
Nimmo, John, d 1827, Doctor 1
Orr, Robert Low, fl 1870s-1880s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Orr, William J, fl 1870s-1880s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Philip, Dr., Grant E. (Doctor, Crime fiction writer) 1
Pollock, Martin Rivers, 1914-1999 (professor of biology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Robertson, John C., fl. 1897 1
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Robson, James Scott, Professor, 1921-2010 (professor of medicine, Edinburgh University) 1
Roslin Institute 1
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 1
Royal Medical Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
Rutherford, Daniel, 1749-1819 (physician and botanist) 1
Rutherford, John, 1695-1779 (Professor of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
Sanders, William Rutherford, 1828-1881 (Scottish physician) 1
Schofield, Anne Dollar, 1921-2015 (née Davies | Physician) 1
Simpson, Sir Alexander Russell, 1835-1916 (professor of midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 1
Thomson, Alexander, fl 1880s (doctor, Edinburgh University medical student) 1
Thomson, Emily Charlotte, 1864-1955 (doctor; medical officer to Dundee Women's Hospital) 1
Thorne, Isabel Jane, 1834-1910 (campaigner for medical education for women) 1
Turner, Sir William, 1832-1916 (anatomist, professor of anatomy and principal, University of Edinburgh) 1
University of Edinburgh MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (stem cell research centre) 1
University of Edinburgh, Department of Molecular Biology (1968-1990) (university department) 1
University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (1951-1964) 1
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 1
University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1964-:) 1
University of Glasgow (Scottish University)) 1
Vass, James, fl. 1844 (Edinburgh University graduate) 1
Wardell, John Richard, fl. 1844 (Edinburgh University graduate) 1
Watson, James Kenneth, fl.1885-1896 (surgeon) 1
Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 1
Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766 (professor of theory of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
Wilmut, Ian, Sir, 1944-: (professor of reproductive science, University of Edinburgh) 1
Woodruff, Sir Michael Francis Addison, 1911-2001 (Knight | Surgeon) 1
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 1
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