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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
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-1920
Scope and Contents
Two volumes containing notes of lectures on midwifery by Thomas Young given in 1763-1764, and notes of lectures on 'the practice of physic' given by Andrew Duncan Snr in 1778.
Dates:
1763-1778
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1909
Scope and Contents
Three bound volumes of notes of lectures 'on the practice of physic', given by James Gregory (1753-1821), Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. The volumes have a bookplate with the letters 'RB'.
Dates:
1812-1813
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-30
Scope and Contents
The papers include full documentation (case histories, experimental notes and data) of Cunningham's medical researches in India, and in particular of his prolonged and exhaustive work on the bacteriology and immunology of relapsing fever, and the major programme on the treatment of rabies which he instituted on his appointment as Director of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, (where over 8,000 cases a year were treated). There are also records of the work on vaccine lymph carried out at the...
Dates:
1905-1968
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1976
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of Anne Davies's papers relating to her life as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh between 1939 and 1945, and to her training in three hospitals in the mid and late 1940s. It also includes photographs relating to class reunions and to the Edinburgh Graduate Association, of which she was president for a year.
Student notes, c 1939-1944; 1969.
Student...
Dates:
c 1920-1990
