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Forensic medicine

 Subject

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

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of Photographs relating to Rex v. Ruxton 1935

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-704
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of circa 43 black and white photographs, many of them duplicated, of severed limbs and bones, bodies in decomposition, skull and cranial features, foot casts, shoes and other personal effects. There are tracing paper sketches of skull dimensions, feet, and bone cross-sections.

Dates: 1935-1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Department of Forensic Medicine, tbc

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/F1
Scope and Contents Summary: Notebooks (notes, correspondence and cuttings) compiled by Henry Duncan Littlejohn. Post-mortem notebooks compiled by Henry Harvey Littlejohn, with accompanying photograph albums. Texts of lectures and presentations given by Sir Sydney Smith Notes, cuttings etc. on specific cases Offprints, reports and similar papers ...
Dates: tbc
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc.

Diary/Notebook, 1924-1926

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/F1/4
Scope and Contents

Volume diarying foresic work, with accompanying cuttings.

Dates: 1924-1926
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Forensic Medicine

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Forensic Medicine, 1883

 Item — Volume Dk.3.25
Identifier: Coll-2255/8
Scope and Contents

Creator: Taylor, William, fl. 1883 (student); Maclagan, Sir Andrew Douglas, 1812-1900 (Scottish surgeon, toxicologist)

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Forensic Medicine taken by W. Taylor in Edinburgh University in 1883. 1 volume.

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

Notebooks of lectures at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1919
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 20 notebooks containing notes on legal and medical lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr. Also includes some class cards, exam papers, and ephemera of Robert Low Orr. Robert Low Orr: Lectures on Metaphysics (Fraser) Robert Low Orr: Law lectures (Muirhead, Macpherson) Robert Low Orr: Scots law...
Dates: 1873-1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebooks of Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn, c1880

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/F1/1
Scope and Contents Notebooks containing notes and cuttings, as follows: Infanticide I Infanticide II Poisons III Poisons IV and Wounds I Wounds II Enclosed in the third volume are (1)...
Dates: c1880
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Forensic Medicine

Notebooks of Sir Henry Harvey Littlejohn, 1914-1927

 Series
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/F1/6
Scope and Contents

Spring-bound notebooks, as follows:


  1. Indexed case book, 1926-1927, in the style of case books in EUA IN1/ACU/F1/2
  2. Various notes
  3. Case of Dr. Dewar, 1914 and David Robertson, 1924
Dates: 1914-1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Forensic Medicine

Post-mortem case books of Sir Henry Harvey Littlejohn, 1899-1927

 Series
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/F1/2
Scope and Contents Notebooks relating to post mortem cases, labelled: Series III, 1899-1901 Series IV, 1901-1902 Series V, 1902-1905 Series VI, 1905-1906 VII (I), 1907-1908 VII (II), 1908-1909 VIII, 1910-1911 IX, 1911-1912 X, 1912-1913 XI, 1913-1915 XII,...
Dates: 1899-1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Forensic Medicine

Post-mortem photographs of Sir Henry Harvey Littlejohn, tbc

 Series
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/F1/3
Scope and Contents

2 photographs albums relating to the same cases as case books EUA IN1/ACU/F1/2. Cross-referenced with the same.

Dates: tbc
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Forensic Medicine

Press cuttings of Aberdeen case, 1934

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/F1/5
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook-style volume containing cuttings relating to the trial relating to the murder of an 8-year-old child.

Dates: 1934
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Forensic Medicine