Hospital patients

Scope and Contents LHB5/6/1-8 give the patient’s number, name, age, sex, residence, disease and any remarks on the case. From LHB5/6/11 the volumes are untitled, are in a notebook format and give the date of admission, number, name, unit number, diagnosis, doctor, ward, arrival time, time seen and departure time. From LHB5/6/24 the volumes are called firstly OPD Registers then Casualty Registers and give date, name, unit number, diagnosis, doctor, operations, ward, arrival time, time...

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of patient case histories taken in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh by medical student Robert Bickersteth between November 1803 and January 1804, when Bickersteth was just 16 years old.