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Medical students

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

A photograph of medical students graduation, and a photograph of the International Physiological Congress at Edinburgh, 1920s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0157
Scope and Contents

One framed photograph of the International Physiological Congress held in Edinburgh in 1923, showing the c. 300 delegates in the Quadrangle of the Old Medical School of the University. Names are given around the photo.


The second photograph has no caption whatsoever, but probably is a graduation photograph. The group includes E. Scharpey-Schafer, Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1933. It was taken by E. R. Yerbury and Son.

Dates: 1920s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Autograph Letter Signed to William Pulteney Alison from William Benjamin Carpenter, 8 November 1837

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/1
Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from William B. Carpenter to Professor William Alison of Edinburgh University, addressing amongst other things an accusation of plagiarism laid against him by fellow-student John Hughes Bennett. Bristol, 8 November 1837.Carpenter begins by apologising to Alison for asking his opinion "on a subject on which I am anxious to obtain the best information I can from those most qualified to judge". The question Carpenter asks is: "Do you think that there is any...
Dates: 8 November 1837
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Bound medical lecture notes and certificates of Victor F. Usher

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1886
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...
Dates: 1903-1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Certificates of John Aymers MacDougall, 1863-1865

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1937/4
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh University certificates of merit of John Aymers MacDougall, in the following classes: midwifery (1863/64), material medica (1863/64), medical jurisprudence (1864), and systematic surgery (1864/65).

Dates: 1863-1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir William Turner and family

Class cards, tickets, and letters of testimonial of John Brown, Thomas S. Brown and William B. Clark

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1156
Scope and Contents The material spans 1824 to 1835. There is one class card in the name of William B. Clark. In addition there is a printed document dated 27 April 1831 and published by the Royal College of Surgeons in London which notes the regulations respecting the professional education of candidates for the College's diploma. There are 34 cards and tickets relating to John Brown and his study path. There are 21 cards and tickets relating to Thomas S. Brown, including one of which is an Edinburgh Academy...
Dates: 1824-1835
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diary of geologist James Nicol when he was an Edinburgh University student

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1914
Scope and Contents This is the manuscript diary of James nicol (1810-1879), an Edinburgh University student in medicine and natural history, who would later become a geologist and Professor of Natural history at the University of Aberdeen. The journal was written between the 10th of October 1840, to the 21st of March 1841, when he attended the Winter Session at Berlin University. Enclosed in the volume are typed notes, giving a rather detailed index of the diary's contents. In his journal, James Nicol...
Dates: 10 October 1840-21 March 1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Edinburgh: "Special" lectures and addresses, 1906

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/C8
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh: "Special" lectures and addresses:

Anatomical Association (DJC served as President)

Royal Medical Society Dinner

Association of Physicians and Surgeons

Students' Union

Annual meeting of University Union

to Members of Naval Medical Service

"to a student gathering"

Dates: 1906
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Records of lectures, speeches and addresses

Edinburgh: "Special" lectures and addresses, 1906

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/C9
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh: "Special" lectures and addresses:

"Third Year Dinner" (on two occasions);

Australian Students' Dinner;

Dinner for Professor Berry;

Indian Medical Service Dinner;

In memory of Professor His;

Aesculapians Club (when elected member and elected chairman);

Dinner for Noel Paton;

3 unidentified occasions.

Dates: 1906
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Records of lectures, speeches and addresses

Graduation medal of William Judson van Someren, 1845

 Item — Box CLX-A-479
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0110
Scope and Contents

This is a graduation medal in medicine, awarded to William Judson van Someren in 1845 by the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Manuscript entitled "An Enquiry into the Elements of General Therapeutics, with Special Illustrations, to which is prefixed an Essay on the Nature Value and Utility of Theory" by Robert Abraham

 Collection — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1981
Content Description This is a manuscript on medicine and drugs written by Robert Abraham in 1825 in Carlisle and London.This manuscript comprises three sections, each including an index: Part First. "An Essay on the Nature, Value, and Utility of Theory", starting a few pages before p. 1; Part Second. "An Enquiry &c.' into the nature of narcotics, hypnotics, sleep, coma, mania, &...
Dates: c 1825
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections