DEP/ABJ/4/1/316 | Letter from James [Orr?], Crofthead, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of an unnamed man who took an oath not to drink for 20 years but then returned to his old habits. | 26 Feb 1833 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/329 | Letter from J Thomson, Perth, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of Captain Macfarlane, with problems in his speech, contraction of his limbs and some symptoms similar to delirium tremens. He provides his observations at the request of Abercrombie. | 16 Feb 1838 |
DEP/ABJ/4/4/2 | Letter from Rbt [Robert] Lorimer, Haddington, Scotland to John Abercrombie relating to cholera | He writes about the cases of cholera he has seen, the treatments used, how alcoholism speeds the disease, symptoms and how the disease was spread into Haddington. A hospital has been established for the worst cases and in all there have been 37 or 38 cases with 16 deaths. | 9 Jan 1832 |
DEP/ANO/46 | Sketched colour illustrations of the human body and diseases, with related notes | Images include: heart, lung, kidney, stomach showing death from inebriation [James Churnside], stomach showing impact of suicide by arsenic [Mary Gooche], rope marks from a man who hung himself, cancerous tumours, amputated knee joint [James Robertson], various Royal Infirmary amputations, leg of a 'middle aged sailor who had suffered from bad provisions of water on a sea voyage'.
Most images have information on the rear as to their contents. There are further written descriptions which are not clearly associated with a particular image. The folder containing the images has what appears to be ['I N Watson, 51 Queen St'] written on it.
Also contains clippings of images from medical publications, a print map of Edinburgh, a traced map of Fife, sketches which appear to be of a court case ['The Hustings, Edinburgh, 1834'], a prescription for an unnamed patient, a print of 'Mr Liston's case' from the Edinburgh Medical Journal with 'Alex Watson' written on it, a poem, and sketches of 'vaccina 1821'. | 1821-1840s |
DEP/AWP/5/2/13 | [C] IId - [Notes on various subjects by William Pulteney Alison] | Includes the origin of evil, freedom of thought, alcoholism, poverty and disease, hospital beds for prostitutes, the industrial employment of women and science and faith. Dated from a reference on p2 of the essay on alcoholism. | c1857 |
DEP/CJN | Collection of Sir John Crofton | | 1939-2008 |
DEP/CJN/1/13 | Autobiography of John Crofton: 'Alcohol' | | c1996 |
DEP/CJN/3/9 | Subject file of John Crofton: Tayside | Includes Association of Scottish Family Centres directory; correspondence with Tayside Regional Council on their multiple deprivation strategy and enclosing minutes of a meeting; note on a visit by Crofton to the Tayside Regional Council and Longcroft Family Centre titled 'Health Promotion in Areas of Multiple Deprivation', 1987; leaflet on Whitfield Family Centre; correspondence with Longcroft Family Centre on amendments to Crofton's note, 1987; Whitfield Health Week, December 1987; correspondence with Tayside Regional Council on a visit by Crofton in February 1988; Tayside Regional Council Multiple Deprivation Sub-committee review of strategy, 1987; Children in Crisis - the way ahead for Tayside; Social Work Committee welfare benefits take-up campaign strategy; letter from Assistant Chief Executive, Tayside Regional Council to Crofton summarising health education strategy and the possibility of a seminar, January 1988; information on the Association of Scottish Family Centres including the constitution, 1986; letter from Longcroft Family Centre enclosing reports, 1986; and lettter from Crofton to the Longcroft Family Centre on his activitites following his retiral as chairman of Scottish Health Education Coordinating Committee and his continuing role in monitoring the reports on smoking, alcohol and multiple deprivation, October 1986. | 1986-1988 |
DEP/CJN/3/11 | Subject file of John Crofton: Scottish Drugs Forum | Includes Drugs and Young People in Scotland, 1988; letter from the Scottish Drugs Forum enclosing their bulletin September - October 1988; Drug Problems - a register of helping agencies, 1988; letters from Crofton requesting reports to be sent to the Scottish Drugs Forum on the symposia held in Glasgow and Edinburgh and the SHECC reports on alcohol and multiple deprivation, 1988; and Scottish Drugs Forum Bulletin August-September 1988 with annotations by Crofton. | 1988 |
DEP/CJN/4/2 | Reprints file of John Crofton | Includes printed articles (some are copies) by Crofton or ones to which he contributed: A Tribute to Sir Robert Sibbald; The NHS [National Health Service] Revolution - before and after - a personal view, 1998; Medical schools - facing up to the challenge of tobacco, 1997; Tobacco and the developing world, 1996; European medical schools and tobacco, 1996; brief interview with John Crofton, 1997; Tobacco and the associations affiliated to the Union, 1994; Health Education in Areas of Multiple Deprivation - a report by the Scottish Health Education Co-ordinating Committee, 1985; Housing and Health in Scotland, 1994; Medical education on tobacco - implications of a worldwide survey, 1994; Smoking behaviour and attitudes towards smoking of medical students in Australia, Japan, USA, Russia and Estonia, 1993; Memo on desirable tobacco content of curricula of medical schools, 1992; Confessional, 1992; Smoking behaviour and attitudes of medical students towards smoking and anti-smoking campaigns - a survey in 10 African and Middle Eastern Countries, 1992; Smoking habits and attitudes of medical students towards smoking and anti-smoking campaigns in nine Asian countries, 1992; Tobacco and the Third World, 1990; From Shamble to Symbiosis [on the Public Health Alliance], 1989; Tobacco - world action on the pandemic, 1989; Smoking Habits and Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Smoking and Antismoking Campaigns in Fourteen European Countries, 1989; Etude Pilots Cooperative de L'UICTMR les Etudiants en Médecine et le Tabac, 1988; Alcohol Misuse and Society - Challenge and Response, report on symposium, 1988; The Winterton Memorial Lecture - Alcohol 1988 - Challenge and Response, 1988; Extent and Cost of Alcohol Problems in Employment - a review of British Data, 1987; National Alcohol Forum misfires with cutting on Crofton's resignation from the Scottish Health Education Co-ordinating Committee, 1986; Introduction - the challenge to epidemiology and community medicine, 1986; Alcohol - a neglected challenge, 1986; Lesioni polmonari diffuse - correlazioni cliniche, 1983.
These were originally in a box file with CJN/4/3-7. | 1983-1998 |
DEP/CJN/5/1/4 | Tuberculosis file of John Crofton: Harry Burns | Letter from Crofton to Dr Harry Burns, Scottish Executive Health Department, congratulating him on his talk on alcohol and general practitioners; Burns' reply thanking him for his comments; and a letter from Crofton to Burns on Frieden's concerns that HIV is not sufficiently regarded as a public health problem and his discussion with John Barrett MP on TB and HIV testing in Africa. | 2006 |
DEP/CJN/5/1/7 | Tuberculosis file of John Crofton: Margaret Becklake | Copy of a letter from Crofton to Becklake concerning his work with WHO [World Health Organisation] and, within the UK, on alcohol and tobacco. | 2006 |
DEP/CJN/5/2/10 | Tuberculosis file of John Crofton: Raj Bhopal | Email exchange between Crofton and Bhopal on tobacco and alcohol in ethnic groups in the UK. | 2006 |
DEP/CJN/6/3/12 | Tobacco file of John Crofton: Consultation on Liquor Licensing - Comment by Professor Sir John... | | 2004 |
DEP/COJ/1/2 | Journal of John Dixon Comrie | Towards the end of his stay he examined prisoners suffering from the effects of mustard gas and a new tear gas. Perhaps his most bizarre and unfortunate case was that of a man 'found dead after having celebrated with too much rejoicing his prospective return to England'. Since his heart showed recent endocarditis, however, his death was tactfully attributed to military causes so that his widow would be eligible for a pension.
On the political front Comrie believed that 'if the British cabinet would only adopt a firm attitude, send out a moderate force ... and announce that the Allies are definitely going to help the Russians right through till freedom is gained, Bolshevism would be dead by next Spring.' He realised that the 'average soldier' wanted to get home and thought they should not be there. Of four commissars he spoke to personally, one thought the Russians should be left to sort out their own affairs, but three thought there would be no peace unless a foreign power, preferably Britain, settled the matter.
However, when Comrie went to Koska, Russia to see the Bolshevik prisoners, or 'Bolos' as they were nick-named, being dis-infested for lice, he was surprised to find that 'a very large number, perhaps the majority, are very young lads; not the loafers, drunkards and hairy villains whom one expects to see'. Later he comments that out of the 2000 prisoners taken on the Dvina front, some 700 were in fact anti-Bolsheviks kept in the army 'through terrorism', and adds that the rank and file often show great resentment towards their commissars. [Source: biography written by archivist Joy Pitman, c1990; see biographical file] | 22 Aug 1919-20 Sep 1919 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/618 | Letter from Robt [Robert] Ligertwood, Aberdeen, Scotland to William Cullen | Correspondent's own case with a detailed account of his life of intemperance. Includes copies of two letters dated May and December 1777, in the same hand but signed by C Corbett and reporting on Cullen's suggested treatments. | Jun 1778 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/2422 | Letter from Lancelot Acry, Whitehaven to William Cullen | Case of James Thompson. He had to show his previous letter to his patient so had not been able to say that 'the principal cause of his disorder...is intemperance'. | 11 Jun 1789 |
DEP/FRM/1 | Lecture notes taken by M Francis at St Bartholomew's Hospital | Front flyleaf inscribed 'M Francis St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1846'. Lecture notes up to page 42. From pp43-79 'On the Observance of Method in conducting Post-Mortem Examinations especially when they are intended for Legal Purposes' by H Letheby, from The Lancet, 1846. From 79 are prescriptions, receipts and notes including American whitewash; table of French measures; M Devergie's ointment for chilblains; ammonia as a vesicant; Godfrey's cordial; phosphorus paste for destroying rats; diet table on board the hospital convict ships at Woolwich, 1847; decoctum aloes compositum by R W Westall; On the luxation of the semilunar cartilages by J P Vincent; Alphabet of auscultation by George Carpe; New Adhesive Fluid invented by John Maynard, Medical Gazette, 1848; On some improvements in the voltaic battery by Dr Wright; Protection from Pestilence, from Dr Copland's Dictionary of Medicine; The Voice by Signor Lahlache; An Almond Oil as a substitute for cod-liver oil by Dr Duncan, Colchester Hospital, 1850; Dr Marshall Hall's method for restoring the asphyxiated from drowning, The Lancet, 1856; copy of a letter on arsenical musilage in the treatment of cancer; Insanity - Dr Hammond of the United States; composition of metropolitan waters, 1873; recipe for Bengal chutney and Mr Hartley's pickling liquid; pasted cutting on recipes for vegetarians; pasted cutting on Lodon smells; and pasted cutting on a man charged with drunkenness asking to see a doctor to ascertain his guilt, 1882. Includes throughout the volume loose hand-drawn anatomical diagrams with captions of the graafian vesicle (p67), ovarium, side view of pelvis and male urethra; and at the rear of the volume further recipes for prescriptions, a cutting on the character of servants and a recipe for furniture polish. | 1846-1882 |
DEP/HAR/1/4/11 | Harveian Society - Students' Prize - Practitioners' Prize [of the subject for the prize essay 1849] | The students' subject was experimental inquiry on the introduction of medical and poisonous agents into the system by pulmonary absorption. The practitioners' subject for 1849 was the physiological and pathological effects of alcoholic liquors on the human body and for 1850, the anatomy physiology and pathology of menstruation. | 1848 |
DEP/HDK/3/11 | 'The Treatment of Drug Addiction' by David Kennedy Henderson | Reprint from the Glasgow Medical Journal. | Mar 1916 |