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Medicine

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

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

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f. 41r

Or Ms 416: تشریح منصوری Tashrīḥ-i Manṣūrī, undated (original text compiled 14th Cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 416
Scope and Contents A treatise on the anatomy of the human body by Manṣūr bin Muḥammad bin Aḥmad, who dedicated it to Amīr-Zādah Pīr Muḥammad Bahādur Khān (either the one grandson of Timur who was murdered in 809 A.H., 1407 C.E., or the other grandson who ruled over Fars during 796-812 A.H., 1394-1409 C.E.).Large anatomical illustrations on several folios. See A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad...
Dates: undated (original text compiled 14th Cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 429: عیون الانباء فی طبقات الاطبّاء ‘Uyūn al-anbāʼ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʼ', undated (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 429
Scope and Contents

A fragment of a manuscript containing part of the preface and first chapter of the work on the lives of physicians by Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim b. Abū ʼUṣaybi‘ah al-Sa‘dī al-Khazrajī (d. 668 A.H., 1270 C.E.). His work was composed in 643 A.H., 1245 C.E.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)

Personal papers of and relating to Kenneth Murchison, 1770-1938

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-51/2/1
Scope and Contents 1 Reproduction of portrait by Raeburn (advertisement in Connoisseur, November 1938), with letter of Henry Raeburn to K. Murchison, 2 July 1793. The price of the portait was 18.18s.0d. + frame £3.10s.6d. 4 items. 2 Probate of will. 5 fols, vellum. With Extracts, 3 fols. 3 Five certificates in surgery, midwifery, etc., London, 1771-1772. 4 Matriculation of armorial bearings, Edinburgh, Lyon Office, 16 June 1788, with seal, in...
Dates: 1770-1938

Pharmaceuticals from transgenic livestock, January 1987

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/2/154
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1987. Part 1 and Index.

Dates: January 1987

Quod ... in Aqueo humero ... videri, 1691

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [69]
Scope and Contents

A note on refraction inside the eye.

Dates: 1691

Recipes, 17th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 169/ff. 40v, 83v-87r, 106v-108v, 139v-140v
Contents

On a total of eleven folios throughout the volume, a 17th-century hand has written various medicinal recipes. The first folio (f. 40v) is in Latin, while ff. 83-87, 106-108, 139-40 are in English. The hand is the same throughout, and each recipe on ff. 139v-140v, has been signed 'per me Franciscus Cox'.



Writing

The hand is quite rough and hurried in places.

Dates: 17th century

Various notes relating to University department expenditures, [c. July 1903]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/82
Scope and Contents Notes are in various hands, mainly consisting of figures and costs for changes to or expansion of various departments, including the Anatomical School, Physiology Department, Surgery and Clinical Surgery, Chair of Mercantile Law. Also contains a copy of the 'Requirements of the Various Departments in the Faculty of Medicine' drawn up for presentation to the University Court on 30 October 1901. The material is undated, but it likely dates from the period in early July 1903 when...
Dates: [c. July 1903]

You Don't Have to Die, 1956

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/4/1/12
Scope and Contents

A leaflet by Harry M. Hoxley, from The Medical Review, June 1957, which is about alternative treatments to cancer which do not involve vivisection, by a combination of potassium iodine and organic substances.

Withdrawn from cirulation June, 1969

Dates: 1956