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Medicine

 Subject

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

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and his Family / Kenneth Murchison

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing six medical texts

Record of Cases taken in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Preparations from the Pharmacopeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Baffin Voyage Journal

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-891
Scope and Contents The manuscriptCases taken in the Royal Infirmaryis by no means unique. A range of student copies of Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) casebooks have survived. Some contain copies of remedies from pharmacopoeias of either the RIE or the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE). This casebook is from 1820-1821. The mansucript also contains a copy of preparations from the pharmacopoeia of the RCPE. The 'Baffin' voyage journal contains a record of the experiences...
Dates: 1820-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Records of the NHS Education for Scotland South East Deanery

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1436
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of correspondence, copies of committee meeting documentation, and printed matter: Box 1: Postgraduate Board, Policy and membership - 1975-1990 Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education Education (SCPMDE), Postgraduate News - 1973-1979 Minutes/Committee and Sub-committee meetings - 1979-1992 ...
Dates: 1939-1989
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Stewart (Sir Thomas Grainger). Notes of lectures on Medicine, 1883-1885

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2255/5
Scope and Contents

Creator: Taylor, William, fl. 1883 (student); Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA)

Stewart (Sir Thomas Grainger). Notes of lectures on Medicine taken by W. Taylor in Edinburgh University in 1883-1885. 2 volumes.

Dates: 1883-1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Notes on Lectures of Medicine taken down by William Taylor

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]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of OneKind animal welfare charity / Campaigns / Vivisection and Animal Experimentation / Anti-Vaccination and Alternative Medicine Documents / Leaflets and Pamphlets

الجامع لقوی الادویه والاغذیه al-Jāmi' liquwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 25
Scope and Contents

A dictionary of simple medicaments, originally compiled by Ḍiyā al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad b. 'Abd-allāh b. Aḥmad al-Mālikī al-Ashshāb, known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (d. 646 A.H., 1248 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia