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Surgeons

 Subject

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

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Account of a voyage to New South Wales on the ‘Neptune’ by James Mitchell (1792- ), ship’s surgeon

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MIT 3
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebook with 151 numbered pages.

'An account of my voyage to New South Wales in the ship Neptune, in the year 1820 as Surgeon [and] Superintendant to male convicts.'

Pages 1251 - 1260 of a medical textbook laid in. Chapter heading reads 'wounds', and business card indicates the pages were sent by the Sub-librarian of the Medical School Library.

Dates: 1820
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Collection of drawings by James Hogarth Pringle

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-461
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 26 original drawings of skulls by James Hogarth Pringle. These are contained in an album. There is also a printed volume of reproductions of anatomical drawings by him.

Dates: 19th century-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of Thomas Jaffrey McNair

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1269
Scope and Contents The collection is composed largely of black and white photographs reflecting Thomas Jaffrey McNair's study and leisure-time activities while at Edinburgh University. There are photographs of: group photo Union women's dinner 1949 group photo Union men's dinner 1949 group photo Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Mr Walter Mercer's Clinique, Winter 1947 group...
Dates: 1946-1963
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Armand Leslie

 Fonds — Box Dk.2.15
Identifier: Coll-2148
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers relating to Armand Leslie, M.R.C.S., surgeon and Chief Medical Officer who died in Sudan under the command of Charles George Baker. This collection includes many letters to him, some from his sister Jane Young Elvira Leslie and his brother John Leslie, as well as further correspondence after his death between Elvira, John Leslie, and others.Some material (newspaper cuttings, parts of a rough diary, and correspondence, including two letters from...
Dates: 1824-1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journal of a tour round the world taken by Sir John Fraser (1885-1947)

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1296
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of three bound volumes being Sir John Fraser's journal of a tour made around the world in 1935. Each volume contains many pages of black and white photographs along with pages of typescript text describing the journey. The first entry in the journal is dated Tuesday 22 January 1935 and describes the Langholm Hotel and the start of the journey to Southampton to catch the ship (RMS 'Aquitania') bound for New York. A journey across the USA by train...
Dates: 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes on the Anatomy and Surgery lectures of Henry Cline and Astley Cooper, taken down by Robert Bickersteth

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1824
Scope and Contents

These ms notes of the lectures on Anatomy and Surgery given by Henry Cline (1750-1827) and Astley Cooper (1768-1841) were taken down by Robert Bickersteth. Cline was a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and Cooper was a surgeon in London too.


The notes are in ink, sometimes on both recto and verso of the leaf, but usually on the rectos only. There are occasional drawings.

Dates: 1805-1806
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Andrew Crawford Hume

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1096
Scope and Contents

The collection contains:


  1. 1 x degree certificate in the name of Andrew Crawford Hume
  2. 4 x degree/certificates in the name of Thomas Hume
  3. 1 tool-bound volume containingJail hygiene in India, published in Calcutta, 1881, andVaso-motor diseases in India, 1879, which was owned by A. Hume aboard 'HMS Marathon', Bombay, Sept. 1891
Dates: 1873-1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Dr. Ian MacDonald

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-805
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of: written tributes to MacDonald; newspaper cuttings; obituaries; re-prints and off-prints of articles in Spanish and English; an M.D. thesis 1898The treatment of superficial burns by picric acid solution: a study in repair; degree diploma or certificate (M.D. 1901) from the University of Paris; several photographs of MacDonald and of Huelva and the clinic there; and, newspapers from 1932-1933.

Dates: 1898-1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter FRCP FACP Executive Dean Faculty of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1651
Scope and Contents The Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter, and of Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter, are comprised of: 1 x folder - correspondence, 1981-1987 1 x folder - correspondence, contracts and other material relating to film And so goodbye, 2003-2004 1 x folder - graduation material, programmes, seating plans, dinner menus etc - 1981-1987 2 x...
Dates: 1942-2007
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections