Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 21 - 30 of 69

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, & idiocy",...
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 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

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

Material relating to Dr. James Griffiths Macaskie

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1248
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: a set of surgical instruments (incomplete) in a presentation case with inscription: Edinburgh School of Medicine / Surgery 1877-78 / John Chiene, Lecturer / J. Griffith Macaskie a Bronze Medal, School of Medicine, Edinburgh, awarded to James G. Macaskie 1874-75, Second Prize, Institutes of Medicine or Physiology, Dr. J. Bell Pettigrew, Lecturer ...
Dates: 1874-1888

Material relating to James S. Robson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1293
Scope and Contents The material in the collection is composed of: a list of candidates selected for Rockefeller Medical Studentships, 1942; a letter dated 3 June 1942 from the Universities Bureau of the British Empire indicating that travel arrangements had been made for passage to the USA; a typescript copy of the thesis entitled Fluid retention in patients with chronic liver disease by James S. Robson, M.B., Ch.B. (Hons), and with tables and figures to the thesis; and, a summary of...
Dates: 1945-1950

Material relating to the research and interests of Matthew H. Kaufman

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1808 / SC-Acc-2016-0196, n/a: data_value_missing_182cfeaab3c706562e624136a099ed82
Identifier: Coll-1808
Content Description The collection of largely off-print and other ts material, and photographs... is composed of:
1 x folder - photographs of mouse embryos
1 x folder - ts and off-print material on phrenology
1 x folder - off-print material on medical history
1 x folder - off-print material on the mouse embryo
1 x folder - off-print material on other science
Dates: 1990 - 2006

Material relating to the University studies of James K. Watson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1321
Scope and Contents The scrapbook or album (commonplace book) contains class cards, class certificates, notes and other printed matter relating to the study period of James Kenneth Watson at Edinburgh University - covering 1888-91, and subjects such as Chemistry, Practical Chemistry, Anatomy, Practical Anatomy, Anatomical demonstrations, Botany, Natural History, Institutes of Medicine, Practical Physiology, Practical Pathology, Practical Materia Medica, including Pharmacy, Materia Medica, General Pathology,...
Dates: 1885-1896

Filtered By

  • Subject: Medicine X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Repository
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections 42
Lothian Health Services Archive 27
 
Subject
Medicine 22
Medicine | History | 15
Medical students 7
Medicine | Research | 7
Medicine | Study and teaching | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 7
∨ more
Anatomy 5
Medicine | Societies, etc. | 5
Physicians 5
Student lecture notes 5
University of Edinburgh -- student lecture notes 5
University of Edinburgh -- students 5
Lectures and Lecturing 3
Pathology 3
Students 3
Women students 3
Commonplace-books 2
Correspondence 2
Diaries 2
Medals 2
Medical students | Scotland | 2
Medicine | Edinburgh (Scotland) | Study and teaching | 2
Medicine | Practice | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 2
Medicine | Research | Scotland | Edinburgh | 2
Medicine | Study and teaching | Scotland | Edinburgh | 2
Midwifery 2
Public Health 2
Sketchbooks & albums 2
Social medicine 2
Student notes 2
Surgeons 2
Surgery 2
University of Edinburgh -- Medals 2
Women in medicine 2
Agriculture 1
Albums 1
Animal embryology 1
Animal models in research 1
Artificial Limbs 1
Biochemistry 1
Biology 1
Calorimeters 1
Calorimetry 1
Carbon Dioxide 1
Case Notes 1
Chemistry 1
China 1
China -- Hong Kong 1
Cloning 1
Crimean War, 1853-1856 | 1
Dermatology 1
Diplomas 1
Diseases 1
Dissertations, Academic 1
Drugs 1
Embryos 1
Examination Papers 1
Family papers 1
Forensic medicine 1
Gardening 1
Genealogy 1
Genetics 1
Greece 1
Gynecology | Practice | Scotland | 1
Health boards | Scotland | 1
Histology 1
Hockey 1
Horticulture 1
Hospital patients | Scotland | 1
Hospitals Medical staff 1
Hospitals | Administration | 1
Hospitals | Design and construction | 1
Hospitals | Edinburgh (Scotland) | Outpatient services | 1
Hospitals | Finance 1
Hospitals | Law and legislation | 1
Hospitals | Planning | 1
Hospitals | Staff | 1
Hospitals, Convalescent | Scotland | Edinburgh | 1
Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 1
India 1
Indian Medical Service 1
Iridology | 1
Italy 1
Japan 1
Law (Scotland) 1
Malta 1
Materia medica 1
Medical Illustration 1
Medical bacteriology | 1
Medical care | Research | 1
Medical ethics | 1
Medical ethics | Scotland | 1
Medical instruments and apparatus 1
Medical jurisprudence 1
Medical laws and legislation | 1
Medical laws and legislation | Scotland | 1
Medical records 1
Medical records | Scotland | 1
Medical statistics | 1
Medicine (Pharmacy) 1
Medicine | Awards | 1
∧ less
 
Language
English 52
English 16
Latin 2
French 1
German 1
∨ more  
Names
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 9
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 Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 2
∨ more
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
Ballingall, George, Sir, 1780-1855 1
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 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
Cooter, Roger, 1948- 1
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 1
Cunningham, Daniel John, 1850-1909 (professor of anatomy, Trinity College Dublin) 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
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
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) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 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
Schofield, Anne Dollar, 1921-2015 (née Davies | Physician) 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
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. Edinburgh University Library 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
∧ less