Surgery

Scope and Contents These case notes are housed in 38 boxes. Serving soldiers, sailors and airmen were treated at Bangour during the war, along with civilian patients and personnel from the auxiliary services, such as the Auxiliary Territorial Services (A.T.S) and Women's Auxiliary Air Force (W.A.A.F). Polish servicemen and German prisoners of war are also represented in these records as the war draws to its close. Whilst many accidents incurred by servicemen at the start of the war occurred in nearby camps,...

Scope and Contents Seventeen volumes of lectures notes by Victor Field Usher, a medical student at the University of Edinburgh in 1902-1907, who became the first physician to introduce Arsphenamine (the first effective treatment for syphilis, developed by Prof. Paul Ehrlich) to the UK. The fonds includes: Three volumes entitled Practice of Medicine - Gibson, Philip & Bruce containing...

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Creator: Taylor, William, fl. 1883 (student); Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh)

Chiene (John) Notes of lectures on surgery taken by W. Taylor in Edinburgh University in 1883-84, 85-86. 1 volume. Includes some printed material and illustrations throughout.

Content Description This is a collection of offprints entitled "A Collection of Published Works by the Department of Surgery. University of Edinburgh". It is divided in three volumes: 1957-1965 (vol. I), 1966-1969 (vol. II), and 1970-1976 (vol. III). The foreword explains that "as an appreciation of the outstanding contribution to Surgical Science and Immunology made by Sir Michael Woodruff during his occupation of the Chair of Surgery (formerly Surgical Science), his colleagues have compiled a collection of...

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Lecture 'Examples of two common surgical cerebellar affections of childhood', by Norman Dott with manuscript note 'shown to Pediatric [Paediatric] club', dated 28 November 1930.

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Lecture 'Experiences in the surgical treatment of intracranial diseases' delivered by Norman Dott to the Halifax B.M.A. [British Medical Association] Division, dated October 1930.

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This sub-series contains 5 lectures given by Norman Dott on the surgery of intracranial tumours, dated May 1928-October 1930

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...

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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.