Physicians
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
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
Notes of lectures given by William Saunders
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1281
Scope and Contents
The notes taken down into this small bound pocket note-book of 131 handwritten pages are believed to have formed part of the Guy's lecture series - 'Elements in the Practice of Physic'. One of the early pages bears the inscription 'John Bethell, Lincoln's Inn Field' but it isn't clear if this was the same individual who took the notes or someone who subsequently owned them. The volume may be particularly important in that the contents significantly pre-date - when compared - the...
Dates:
1774-1776
Papers and Correspondence of Sir James Mackenzie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-84
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers of Sir James Mackenzie are unindexed. The collection consists of correspondence, largely from the 1900s to the 1920s; notebooks; photographs of people and hospital locations; plans; medical journal articles and other printed material; bundles of notes; reviews of his work; assorted cuttings and typescripts. There is also an album of cuttings and notices, and Mackenzie's birth certificate.
Dates:
circa 1900-1940
Papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2066
Content Description
This fonds consists of the papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison, physician and surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. It contains:
Certificates earned when he was studying in Edinburgh and in Liverpool, and in the Indian Military Service (1891-1930);
Published medical articles by Col. Murison and some related correspondence (1901-1926);
Small portrait photograph...
Dates:
1891-1942
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
Papers relating to Dr. T. C. Penfold
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1123
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the birth certificate of Thomas Cunningham Penfold, a graduation photograph of Penfold taken by G. R. Lawson, South Bridge, Edinburgh, a copy of testimonial dated 21 July 1891 in favour of Thomas Cunningham Penfold from A. R. Simpson, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, and several other notable teachers within the University and dated between 21 July 1891 and 18 August 1894, and a small number of newspaper obituaries...
Dates:
1872-1935
Report of a public physician, 173 AD
Item
Identifier: P.Oxy.51
Scope and Contents
A report addressed to the strategus of the nome by a public physician, stating that, in accordance with the instructions of the strategus to examine into the cause of death which had taken place and present a report, he had visited the house and seen the body.
The papyrus is written in a very cursive sloping hand.
Dates:
173 AD
Treatise of the Materia Medica
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1127
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume begins: ' A treatise of the Materia Medica in which the Virtues of all the Simples of the three Kingdoms are truly described and they have been fully demonstrated by the accurate Observations of many truly celebrated Authors and particularly of the learned Dr. Charles Alston Professor of the Materia Medica and Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Reg. Prof. Botan'. The text in the manuscript volume is organised into the following...
Dates:
1745-1747