Case Notes

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Bound volumes containing notes on patients admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children. Each case book relates to a specific ward and illness.

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These volumes are indexed with photographs. They give details of individual patient cases, including: patient number and ward; name, sex, age, occupation and religion; marital status; private or pauper patient; address of relative; and if suicidal/dangerous. They also contain sections on: facts of medical certificates; state on admission; appearance; progress of case; date discharged/died, and reason (recovered - transferred etc).

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Bound volume of written-up cases for individual patients.

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Case Book for Vert Memorial Hospital. Case Book is handwritten and arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents The first two volumes contain case notes for the inmates of East and West House: thereafter, unless otherwise stated, the volumes relate to West House. The case books contain each patient’s clinical record: some volumes in the late 1890s contain photographs of the patient. All volumes are indexed.All volumes (excepting numbers 2, 115 and 120) had a quantity of loose material interleaved. Where there was an enclosure with a page the letters...

Scope and Contents

These volumes are indexed with photographs. They give details of individual patient cases, including: patient number and ward; name, sex, age, occupation and religion; marital status; private or pauper patient; address of relative; and if suicidal/dangerous. They also contain sections on: facts of medical certificates; state on admission; appearance; progress of case; date discharged/died, and reason (recovered - transferred etc).

Scope and Contents This is a doctor's manuscript casebook, recording his practice among the urban poor in the South East District of an unidentified city (probably Glasgow).In an "Introduction", the author explains that he began recording cases "at the time Typhus Fever was so prevalent in this town and neighbourhood" (the name of the town is not given, but it is probably in Scotland given the recurrence of names such as "Baird", "Stirling", "McLachlan" and "McFadyen"). He continues that his notes...

Scope and Contents This is a manuscript entitled "Clinical Reports - Dr Rutherford. From February 1st to April 1796", containing clinical case reports on on patients at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, written by Daniel Rutherford in 1796. It is written in "tête-bêche" format, which means that there are two texts (one describing the female cases, and the other describing the male cases) starting at opposite ends of the volume, upside down relative to each other. Each section starts with an index on the...

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.

Scope and Contents This fonds consists of photographs and papers relating to Dr Anthony D. Oliver. It is made of three different accessions; the first one (SC-Acc-2017-0102) contains photographs and pictures, and the second one (SC-Acc-2023-0120; SC-Acc-2024-0062) contains papers such as student notes, medical case notes, workbooks etc.SC-Acc-2017-0102: group photograph of the Students' Representative Council, 1960/61 (also includes David Steel, Senior President and Duncan F. Hallas, Secretary);...