Medicine
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
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
Graduates in Medicine, 1833-1989
Series
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
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Professor W.S Greenfield, 26 June 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/65
Scope and Contents
Greenfield provides notes concerning the costs of expanding the staff and facilities in Pathology and Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
26 June 1903
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
Material relating to James S. Robson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1293
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection is composed of: a list of candidates selected for Rockefeller Medical Studentships, 1942; a letter dated 3 June 1942 from the Universities Bureau of the British Empire indicating that travel arrangements had been made for passage to the USA; a typescript copy of the thesis entitled Fluid retention in patients with chronic liver disease by James S. Robson, M.B., Ch.B. (Hons), and with tables and figures to the thesis; and, a summary of...
Dates:
1945-1950
Material relating to the University studies of James K. Watson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1321
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook or album (commonplace book) contains class cards, class certificates, notes and other printed matter relating to the study period of James Kenneth Watson at Edinburgh University - covering 1888-91, and subjects such as Chemistry, Practical Chemistry, Anatomy, Practical Anatomy, Anatomical demonstrations, Botany, Natural History, Institutes of Medicine, Practical Physiology, Practical Pathology, Practical Materia Medica, including Pharmacy, Materia Medica, General Pathology,...
Dates:
1885-1896
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
Papers of Joseph Black and family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-16
Scope and Contents
5 boxes of correspondence between himself and a variety of individuals (including James Watt, Prince Paul Dashkov, John Robison) and on a variety of subjects: linen bleaching, use of lime water, assays of ores, civic water supply, mineralogical specimens, absorption of heat etc
1 box of family letters between Black, his father and his brothers Samuel, George and Thomas
...
Dates:
1746-1799