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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 19 Collections and/or Records:

An Account of Body Snatching by Medical Students

 Fonds — Box Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2236
Scope and Contents

'Twenty four hours of my pupillage'. An account of a grave robbing (body snatching) expedition by medical students in 1830 at a town probably on or near the coast in the Southeast of England. Written in later years by one of the participants. Anonymous.

Dates: 1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
MD Thesis entitled "An Essay Upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, title page
MD Thesis entitled "An Essay Upon the Vaso...

MD Thesis entitled "An Essay Upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-2288
Scope and Contents

MD Thesis entitled "An essay upon the vasomotor changes in Tabes Dorsalis" (title page: "An essay upon the vasomotor changes in Tabes Dorsalis and on the influence which is exerted by the sympathetic nervous system in that disease, being a thesis presented in the hope of obtaining the degree of the Doctorship of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh"), written by Arthur Conan Doyle M.B. C.M. in 1885.

Dates: 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1879-1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1910
Scope and Contents

Three volumes of notes of lectures given by Charles Alston, entitled 'A treatise on the materia medica ... from the lectures of Charles Alston, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians and Professor of Botany at Edinburgh. 1733'. 183 x 165 mm, rebound. They bear the armorial bookplate of Alexander Russell, M.D. It is possible that this is the Alexander Russell that studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated in 1779.

Dates: 1733
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures given by Sir Alexander Russell Simpson and Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, taken down by Kenneth R. Brown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1949
Scope and Contents Notebooks containing lecture notes taken down by Kenneth R. Brown in 1885-1887, bearing his bookplate. Notes on lectures given by Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart. 'Lectures on the Practice of Physic'. Edinburgh University, 1885-1886, 2 vols. Notes on lectures given by Sir Alexander Russell Simpson. Lectures on midwifery, and lectures on gynaecology. Edinburgh University, 1886-1887. ...
Dates: 1885-1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections