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Medicine

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

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

A Summary of Replacement Techniques (those replacing animals in research), 1975

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/30
Scope and Contents

a leaflet titled "A Summary of Replacement Techniques (those replacing animals in research)", which explains the alternatives to animal experimentation in medicine. Published by the SSPV.

Revised April 1990.

Dates: 1975

Artificium singulare in Oculo Noctua, 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [93]
Scope and Contents

A note and diagram on corneal occlusion, taken down by Gregory from Archibald Pitcairne.

Dates: 1695

Author catalogue, late 18th century

 Item — Volume EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/1/Da.1.7
Identifier: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/1/Da.1.7
Scope and Contents

Author catalogue for scientific and medical works.

Dates: late 18th century

Brains Trust on Natural Methods of Healing, report of proceedings, 1955 - 1956

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/4/2/2
Scope and Contents Three copies of a report of proceedings at a meeting held under the auspices of the Committee of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, Brains Trust on Natural Methods of Healing. The report contains a transcription of what was said as part of a Brains Trust event whereby members of the public asked questions to the SSPV seeking answers. Questions include, is vivisection justifiable, is smoking bad for you, can diseases and infection be cured by the mind alone? All three...
Dates: 1955 - 1956

Copies of the Medical Review and Medical News, 1954 - 1967

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/4/2/1
Scope and Contents Copies of "The Medical Review", (formerly The Prescriber) and "Medyckal Tidyngs", a satirical supplement to "Medical News", December 22-29, 1967. The Medical Review was editied by James Burnet and was published in Edinburgh from 3 Howe Street. The review contains articles and avertisements relating to medical treatment and opinion on topics such as cancer, respiratory diseases, cardiology, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, industrial diseases, urology, and gastro-intestinal diseases....
Dates: 1954 - 1967

De Transmutatione Figurarum, c1688-1707

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [96]
Scope and Contents

A treatment by Craig(e) of transmutation of a particular curve into another.

Secondarily, there is a tabulation of the Measures of the Blood Vessells in Dogs by James Kyll MD at Oxford in 1699, and a Dr Robert Areskine's Measures of the Arterys (human? canine?). There is also a 1707 note about how the French form the chamber of their mortars, and a passing mention of a new proposal on quadrature just brought before the Royal Society.

Dates: c1688-1707

Epist: Pitcarnii Pars de motu Musculari, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [156]
Scope and Contents

Three pages of a letter to Gregory on physiology.

Dates: s.d.

Folio C, c1680-c1708

 Series — Volume Dc.1.61: Series Coll-33/Folio C
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: These are mostly handwritten items, bound together as a volume, though with some loose insertions of manuscripts which had strayed, some of them with modern annotations concerning their provenance. Their scope and content is as David Gregory indexed them, save for the missing items, which consist of two dozen papers and letters on general physics and maths, and...
Dates: c1680-c1708

Gay Scotland, Issue 50, 1990

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Identifier: GD61/10/2/52
Scope and Contents The front cover reads: “50 – Undressed GS”.This issue includes: the second public “gay affirmation ceremony” at Edinburgh’s Lesbian and Gay Centre; an appeal for funding to cover essential work on the building of the Edinburgh Lesbian and Gay Centre; an article looking back on the past eight years of “the Scottish scene” (since Gay Scotland was first published); a look back at fifty issues of Gay Scotland; an update on AIDS and the trial of dideoxyinosine (ddl); coverage of the...
Dates: 1990
Graduation of Wong Fun
Graduation of Wong Fun

Graduates in Medicine, 1833-1989

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ADS/STA/8
Scope and Contents

Graduation schedules including examinations taken. Began as 'Medical Examinations' and retitled 'Medical Graduates' in 1903.

Dates: 1833-1989