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2 Common-place books with medical receipts and prescriptions, and with gardening hints
Alison, William Pulteney
Notes by unidentified student from lectures by W. P. Alison on the Institutes of Medicine 1828 and 1830
Bone, John Wardle
Bruce, Alexander Ninian
Letter of application from and testimonials for A. N. Bruce c1912; obituary of A. N. Bruce 1968; medal awarded to A. Bruce 1887; letter regarding bequest of medal 1988
Clinical cases of Dr. Rutherford and Dr. Gregory, November 1793
An index at the beginning of this substantial volume of clinical case notes lists 28 women and 31 men with their symptoms and treatment recorded in manuscript notes over more than 600 pages. The manuscript offers much information on the methods of these two leading 18th century Scottish physicians.
Collection of Library slips relating to Edinburgh University theses, 1844
Collection of Photographs relating to Rex v. Ruxton 1935
The collection is composed of circa 43 black and white photographs, many of them duplicated, of severed limbs and bones, bodies in decomposition, skull and cranial features, foot casts, shoes and other personal effects. There are tracing paper sketches of skull dimensions, feet, and bone cross-sections.
Correspondence relating to the Scottish Anti-Vaccination League
The collection is composed of correspondence relating to the Scottish Anti-Vaccination League, Kirkcaldy, 1896-1897.
Diaries of Dr. S. W. Carruthers
Diary of Isabel Jane Thorne
The diary is 43pp. long (foolscap). It is a copy of typescript with corrections. It begins with her birth and family circumstances as she grew up, and includes her life as a governess, her marriage and journey to China, the birth of her children, the Taiping Rebellion, medical training in London and studies in Edinburgh, and her return to London. The diary ends in 1886-1887 and with brief description of personal celebrations around the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.