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Dissection

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Black notebook "Notes on Brain": from the relevant literature, n.d.

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/B13
Scope and Contents 14. Black notebook entitled "Notes on Brain"; notes on literature. From the other end of the notebook: notes on anatomical dissections.
Dates: n.d.

Black notebook "Studies on upright position and curvature of the spine": notes on the literature., n.d.

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/B10
Scope and Contents 11. Black notebook entitled "Studies on upright postion and curvature of the spine" notes on the literature. Notes on the spleen and kidneys; draft lecture on dissection and structure of the abdomen.
Dates: n.d.

Notebook No.3, 1826- 1826

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/3
Scope and Contents This notebook is written primarily in ink. Subjects include scholarship and unviersity arrangments in other nations, religion, and notes on recent geological discoveries. Three pages are missing. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus. When known, Lyell's abbreviations and contractions...
Dates: 1826- 1826

Page mounted with two photographs, c. 1957

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/83
Scope and Contents Photograph of Dr W. Siller dissecting a chicken; photograph of Professor Kushner shaking hands with Alan Greenwood in an office (the back of the photograph is addressed to Greenwood from Kushner).
Dates: c. 1957

Story about dissection and Prince Sobieski of Poland, 17 August 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/55
Scope and Contents Story collected from Dr Aisley, Coillemore House [Killiemor House, Am Muile/Isle of Mull] telling how he dissected a royal subject while in Edinburgh University when he was an assistant to Professor Go[o]dsir. The royal subject was Prince Sobieski of Poland, who had been wounded in battle and escaped to Dùn Èideann/Edinburgh. He died in the infirmary of his wounds. The end of the story is very truncated and the text has been scored through in pencil.
Dates: 17 August 1886