Medicine
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
2 Common-place books with medical receipts and prescriptions, and with gardening hints
Fonds — Box CLX-A-622
Identifier: Coll-1555
Scope and Contents
The common-place books are written in the same hand, largely, and are described as:
1 x common-place book, small 4to, with 174pp numbered, dating from 1817-1837, though a later style of handwriting on last unnumbered 4 pp feature the date 1849. Original lightly diced Russia, lacking spine. Manuscript medical receipts, prescriptions. Entries feature named Scottish doctors or Scottish periodicals. An...
Dates:
1810-1860
Clinical cases of Dr. Rutherford and Dr. Gregory, November 1793
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1326
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1793
Collection of Library slips relating to Edinburgh University theses, 1844
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1288
Scope and Contents
The 5 x slips (fragments) were discovered by cataloguing staff inside earlier Edinburgh University theses. They are handwritten in ink. The fragments are:
- a note of page references with some remarks relating to a medical text
- a list of theses sent either by or to Prof. Christison, Edinburgh College, 26 July 1844 - with the names Vass, Anderson, Chepmell, Etherington, Fleming,...
Dates:
1844
Diaries of Dr. S. W. Carruthers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1134
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of notes and news cuttings at Dc.2.76/17, a dissertation at Gen. 1931, and three manuscript diaries at E2008.14.The material at Dc.2.76/17 consists of a notebook (circa 17 pages) with notes accompanying several newspaper cuttings on various University activities. The front cover is noted 'Edinburgh University / Various Student Activities / 1887-1888'. It contains clippings relating to: the Rectorial Elections 1887 and 1888 and from the ...
Dates:
1885-1888
Diary of Isabel Jane Thorne
Fonds — Box CLX-A-842
Identifier: Coll-1175
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1887
Lectures notes taken down by Nicholas Willett Chavasse
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1282
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume of Dr. Saunders's Clinical Lectures is dated 25 January 1784, and is noted with the names: Nicholas Willett Chavasse; C.H. Chavasse, June 1805; and Thomas Chavasse, 20 August 1817. Section headings contained in it include: Observations on a cutaneous infection; Observations on a case of chronic Rheumatism; Case of Thoracic inflammation; Observations on a case of Rheumatism; case of Rheumatic Gout; and, Observations on a case of...
Dates:
1784
Manuscript entitled "An Enquiry into the Elements of General Therapeutics, with Special Illustrations, to which is prefixed an Essay on the Nature Value and Utility of Theory" by Robert Abraham
Collection — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1981
Content Description
This is a manuscript on medicine and drugs written by Robert Abraham in 1825 in Carlisle and London.This manuscript comprises three sections, each including an index:
Part First. "An Essay on the Nature, Value, and Utility of Theory", starting a few pages before p. 1;
Part Second. "An Enquiry &c.' into the nature of narcotics, hypnotics, sleep, coma, mania, &...
Dates:
c 1825
Manuscript recording the lectures of George Fordyce on inflammatory diseases
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1307
Scope and Contents
The manuscript volume - ink on paper - is titled on the spine Fordyce on inflammations. It may have been copied in 1807, which is after Fordyce's death in 1802. The content includes much on venereal disease and other headings include 'hooping cough', 'angina', inflammation of the lungs', 'inflammation of the intestines', 'inflammation of the substances of the liver', 'inflammation of the womb', 'on the causes of cold', 'on catarrh', 'sore throat attended...
Dates:
1807
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Material relating to Charles A. Anderson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1240
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises an Edinburgh University medal (bronze) awarded to Charles A. Anderson session 1888-1889, for the Senior Surgery class. The medal is mounted in a small case (Alex'r Kirkwood and Son, Medalists, 9 St. James Square, Edinburgh).
Dates:
1888-1889