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Anatomy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Class list of Alexander Monro (primus)

 Fonds — Volume EUA GD60
Identifier: EUA GD60
Scope and Contents

Small volume containing lists of scholars (students), their masters (surgeons who they were apprenticed to) and fees paid. In addition there are some details of boarders (1722-1736). Folded inside the volume is a copy letter of 28 June 1945 from the donor, James Watt WS, to Lord Amulree, sent to Univerity Librarian, Lauriston William Sharp.

Dates: 1720-1749
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of drawings by James Hogarth Pringle

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-461
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 26 original drawings of skulls by James Hogarth Pringle. These are contained in an album. There is also a printed volume of reproductions of anatomical drawings by him.

Dates: 19th century-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of Photographs relating to Rex v. Ruxton 1935

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-704
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1935-1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters and notebooks of Dr. Henry Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle

 Fonds — CLX-A-1582
Identifier: Coll-1820
Content Description This collection contains two sets of material:1. Letters to Dr. Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle, and addressed variously to: Cumberland Infirmary; Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool; Playhouse Yard, Thomas Street, Scarbro'; and, Teviot Row, Edinburgh. The letters show that he was assembling information with a view to overseeing a biography of his mentor, John Reid. The collection of letters contains material which would have formed the core of such a work which never came to...
Dates: 1830s-1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Monro, Alexander, primus

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-2
Scope and Contents

MS volume of Alexander Monro primus' History of Anatomy 1747

Dates: 1747
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Mouse Atlas Archive: Matthew H Kaufman collection of glass slides showing sections of mouse embryos at various stages of development

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1829
Content Description Collection of histological sections on glass slides of the mouse embryo at all stages of development created by Professor Matthew Kaufman between c. 1975-1990. Also includes two volumes for which the collection was used ('The Anatomical Basis of Mouse Development' and 'Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development Supplement - with coronal sections'); a file of supporting documents (an index to the embryos in each box and the identification of sections used in the Atlas); and prints of cross-sections...
Dates: Existence: Majority of material found within 1975-1990
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures given by Alexander Monro (secundus), taken down by unknown person(s)

 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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures given by Dr. E. B. Jamieson

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-999
Identifier: Coll-1350
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two volumes of manuscript notes from the classes of 'Regional Anatomy', 1934-1935, and numbered Volume II and Volume III:


  1. - Volume II is concerned with the 'Thorax and brain'
  2. - Volume III is concerned with the 'Head and neck'
Dates: 1934-1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures of Alexander Monro, secundus, taken down by person unknown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1311
Scope and Contents An attractive volume of student's manuscript notes on Monro's lectures, Physiological Observations..., 1773, 58 pp. plus one page index, bound with Lectures on Comparative Anatomy ..., 1773, 72 pp. plus 3 pp. index, written in the same neat hand and each part with decorative penwork title. There are ownership signatures of William Graham, Edinburgh, 25th May 1774 and John Smith, Alnwick, 1st October 1783, to front free endpaper (detached) and small printed ex. libris bookplate of William...
Dates: 1773
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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