Medical students
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = LHSA-Dott
Found in 27 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.
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
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 notes and...
Dates:
1903-1908
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
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 card...
Dates:
1824-1835
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 describes...
Dates:
10 October 1840-21 March 1841
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
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
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, & idiocy",...
Dates:
c 1825
Material relating to Charles A. Anderson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1240
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises an Edinburgh University medal (bronze) awarded to Charles A. Anderson session 1888-1889, for the Senior Surgery class. The medal is mounted in a small case (Alex'r Kirkwood and Son, Medalists, 9 St. James Square, Edinburgh).
Dates:
1888-1889
Medals and photograph of Emily Charlotte Thomson and Alexander Thomson
Fonds — Box CLX-A-346
Identifier: Coll-1994
Content Description
This fonds consists of medals awarded to Emily Charlotte Thomson and Alexander Thomson , as well as one photograph depicting Emily Charlotte Thomson.
Five medals of Alexander Thomson from the University of Edinburgh, in: chemistry (1886-87), practical physiology (1887-88), natural history (1887), Institute of Medicine (1887-88), and a blank one on the same model.
Three medals of Emily Charlotte...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1879-1891