DEP/ALC | Collection of Sir Charles Aldis | | 29 Apr 1821 |
DEP/ANO/3 | [Lecture notes, author unknown] | Fragments of what may be lecture notes. The first entry is dated Monday 9 January and concerns mollities ossium and the affect and symptoms of rachitis on bones. The second entry, 'Tuesday' concerns joints and synovial membranes. There then follows notes in a different hand on the birth and death rates in Denmark, Norway, Schlewig and Holstein and other duchies 1805-1806 and births and deaths 1808-1812. The notes then return to the original hand but are probably out of order as they cover Saturday 24 December to Tuesday 27 December. These notes concern fibrous cartilaginous carcinoma, cancer of the eye, breast cancer and other cancers and end with elephantiasis and leprosy. The notes are taken in the first person eg 'an intelligent Professor of Chemistry at Berlin informed me' (first page) and 'pitch ointment I have found most advantageous' (tenth page) but this may only be the literal transcribing of what was heard in a lecture. Passing references to both Dr Adams and Dr Baillie. | c1814 |
DEP/ANO/16 | [Extracts from Nicholas Culpeper and Robert Pemell], author unknown | The volume was probably written as a doctor's aid to practice and consists of abridgements of works by Culpeper and Pemell. It starts with an extensive index titled 'A Catalogue or Alphabeticall Table of all the diseases contained in his booke the numbers [joints?] with the pages'. The first section is from 'The English Physician or an Astrologo-Physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation' by Nicholas Culpeper, 1652. Pages 1-213 correspond to the first part of the book which lists herbs and their uses. Pages 214-359 may be from 'A Physicall Directory or a Translation of the London Dispensatory' also by Nicholas Culpeper. The third section (pages numbered 1-225) is from 'Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus' by Robert Pemell, 1652. It starts with an index to the simple and compound medicines in the treatise and a preface signed by Pemell, dated September 16th 1654. At the end are indexes to the diseases treated by simple medicines and compound medicines. The fourth section (pages numbered 1-199) is from 'Semeiotica Uranica or an Astrological Judgement of Diseases' by Nicholas Culpeper, 1651. It starts with a table of contents to the treatise. The last seven pages are titled 'Cure of A Cancer' and it is not clear whether these are also from the Culpeper book. The original manuscripts catalogue lists the books from which the extracts were taken and the pages from 'The English Physician' were confirmed at the time of cataloguing. | c1660 |
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/5/1/150 | Untitled essay on schirrhus [cancerous growth] by William Pulteney Alison | Fair copy. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/BEG | Collection of George Thomas Beatson | | 16 Jun 1927 |
DEP/BRE/4/8 | Incurable Diseases - Notable Work in Edinburgh - The Scourge of Cancer | The cutting reports on the need for more beds for cancer cases at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables according to J J Herdman, chairman of the Board of Managers; and Edwin Bramwell's comments on the utopia of medical science. | 28 Nov 1931 |
DEP/CJN/6/1/2 | Tobacco file of John Crofton: Papers of the International Agency on Tobacco and Health | Progress reports to the Cancer Research Campaign and the British Heart Foundation; accounts; minutes; director's reports; and paper on future development. | Oct 1999-Dec 2003 |
DEP/CJN/6/3/5 | Tobacco file of John Crofton: International Union Against Cancer | Minutes of meeting, list of members and resolutions of the 9th World Conference on Tobacco and Health. | 1994-1995 |
DEP/CJN/6/3/13 | Tobacco file of John Crofton: My Comments on Tobacco Company's Expert Reports | Reports by John Crofton - 'Dr A J Cohen's Evaluation of Inhaled or Intratracheally-Administered Cigarette Smoke in Animals'; 'Comment on Evidence from Professor Jeffrey Gray - Report on Alfred McTear and his smoking behaviour'; 'Report on Dr D S James'; 'Abstract of the Evidence of Professor Jacques LeLorier'; 'Report of Dr Med Michael A Lewis on Issues of Population Research - First Section - Individual Causation'; and 'Second Section of Report by Dr Med Michael A Lewis - Epidemiological Issues'; 'Tobacco and Lung Cancer'; and letters between Drummond Miller, solicitors on McTear vs Imperial Tobacco. | 2003 |
DEP/CJN/6/3/15 | Tobacco file of John Crofton: [Articles on smoking and health] | Includes 'The Unwelcome Guest - How Scotland invited the tobacco industry to smoke outside'; bulletin of the International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco; attitudes towards smoking in the medical profession; IATH [International Agency on Tobacco and Health] factsheets; smoking cessation services; and a letter from Crofton about the pamphlet 'Smoking - the Cancer Controversy' by Sir Ronald A Fisher. | 1989-2006 |
DEP/EPC | Collection of the Edinburgh Pathological Club | | 1932-2004 |
DEP/EPC/1/25 | Articles regarding breast cancer sent to A E Stuart by E K Dawson | From the collection of the Edinburgh Pathological Club. 'Sweat Gland Carcinoma of the Breast', Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1932 and 'Mammary Cancer and the Menopause', Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1943. It is not known when she sent these to Stuart. | 1932-1943 |
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/HAL/2/1/12 | Notes for translation of 'Elementa Physiologiae' by Albertus de Haller | From the collection of Alexander Hamilton. Although some papers do relate to his translation of Haller other notes are included. The papers are: a table giving titles of books, any references to affections of the heart and pericardium and summary of the cases given; list of works to be consulted with explanatory text on the preparation of the translation and in reverse an index, probably to Haller; list of free lectures Hamilton could attend; pages titled 'Addenda' with list of experiments relevant to a text that were published once the book had gone to press; and a bound section with an article on the nature and cause of cancer, cases of extra uterine pregnancies, puerperal fever, comparative periods of gestation and hydrocephalus. See also HAL/2/4/119. | c1818 |
DEP/HTW/2/9 | Letter from the Reverend William McKee, Philadelphia, United States of America, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He writes of a 'secret' that he had learned from Dr Martin of Philadelphia who was famous for curing cancer. He asks for a promissory note for £500 and he would make the voyage to Scotland to tell him in person. His address is care of Reverend Dr Duffield. | 15 Mar 1786 |
DEP/LAT/1/4 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Adhernt [Adherent] Pericaridum - Valvular Diseases - Hypertrophy... | In the title the subjects in square brackets were later annotations replacing a subject crossed out. Contains 'Chronic Structural Diseases of Heart'; and 'Deficiency [?] of Pericardium'. Also includes pages from the London Medical Gazette with an article on the morbid conditions of the pulmonary artery by Norman Cheevers, 1846; page from the Medical Press and Circular on two cases of injury of the aortic valves from muscular exertion by Balthazar W Foster, 1866; article by Arthur Gamgee 'On certain forms of cardiac polypi', 1860; pages from the Medical Press and Gazette with an article 'Clinical Lecture on Insufficiency of the Aortic Valves' by S Jaccoud, 1868; case note on Mary Innis or Betty Wilson, Laycock's patient, with post mortem report inscribed 'pericarditis aneurism of aortic valve embolism', 1864; and small cuttings on heart disease 1865-1874. | 1846-1874 |
DEP/LAT/1/13 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Chrc [Chronic] Ulcere [Ulcerative?] Gastritis - Haematemesis... | Contains 'Cancer of the Stomach'; 'Haematemesis - Vomiting of Blood' with pasted cutting on bleeding ulcers'; and 'Chronic Gastritis and Ulceration' with and loose notes on preparations and illustrations of stomach disease. Also includes a case note with autopsy for Francis Phim with cancer of the Liver, mesenteric glands and stomach, 1864; 'Creasote in Gastro-enteritic irritation and sesquioxide of iron and port-wine in chronic diarrhoea' by John Burne; and from Parisian Medical News 'Diagnosis of Cancer of the Stomach' by M Beau, 1865. | 1864-1865 |
DEP/LAT/1/17 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Mouth - Tongue - Parotid - Salivy [Salivary] Glands - Tonsils... | Contains 'Diseases of the Alimentary Canal - Mouth and Throat', 1856 and 1864; 'Glossitis - Salivary Glands - Follicular Glands, Folliculitis' with pasted cutting on the removal of tonsils; and 'Oesophagitis'. Also includes arrangement of the diseases of the mouth and throat; case note on cancer of the oesophagus and cardia of stomach in Peter Edwards, 1864; from Medical Press and Circular 'Observations on acute glossitis illustrated by seven cases' by Henry Gray Croly, 1867 and 'Case of impaction of a plate of artificial teeth in the pharynx during a period of five months' by Dr Geoghegan, 1866; and cutting on belladonna in sore throat. | 1856-1867 |
DEP/LAT/1/18 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Peritoneum - Proem - Peritonitis - Puerperal Peritonitis... | Contains 'Abdominal Tuberculosis - Peritoneal and Intestinal Cancer'; 'Ascites - Dropsy - Dropsy of the belly'; 'Physiological Proem [on the peritoneum]' with later addition on diseases of the peritoneum; and 'Treatment of Acute General Peritonitis'. Also includes from the Lancet 'A case of ascites from obstruction of the portal vein' by Sir W Jenner, 1874; and comparison of M Malgaigne and M Béhier treatment of puerperal metro-peritonitis, 1862. | 1862-1874 |