DEP/ABJ/3/5 | Notes of John Abercrombie: Volume 3 | Volume with notes on various medical subjects including measles, jaundice, interitis, colic, hydrocephalus, mania, ulcers, gout, cholera, cutaneous diseases, diseases of the stomach, liver disease, dropsy, children's diseases and the brain. Gives the symptoms and treatment but not cases except at p54-56. Undated. | c1811 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/61 | Letter from John Ramsay, N Castle [Newcastle] upon Tyne, England to John Abercrombie | Case of Mr Naters with edema of the lower extremities. | 10 Jan 1822 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/151 | Letter from Jno [John] Wardrop, Falkirk, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of Dr Robertson of Carron Vale with edema in his legs. | 20 Dec 1823 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/356 | Letter from Alex [Alexander] R Duguid, Kirkwall, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of Mr Moncrieff, 30, with edema of the lower extremities and scrotum. Includes notes made by the patient. | 9 Jan 1843 |
DEP/ABJ/5/5 | 'Observations on Diseases of the Spinal Marrow' and 'Observations on Certain Dropsical Affections... | Printed volume with annotations on the facing pages. 'Diseases of the Spinal Marrow' was printed in 1817 (see p27) but the annotations include cases from 1818 (see facing p120). 'Observations on Certain Dropsical Affections' is undated but the annotations include cases from 1819 (see facing p13). | c1819 |
DEP/ANO/22 | 'Judicium urinarum', author unknown | The text is relieved with red capitals and diagrams of alembics with different fluids, presumably urine. The 'Judicium' ends on page 134 and is followed by a list of planets and the days of the week; a table showing the dates of a month in terms of zodiac signs which also correlate to the twelve alchemical processes; and a list of names, possibly alchemical elements. On pages 141-144 is a work that starts 'This booke of Ipocras techith...' Page 145 is half missing but appears to contain superstitions relating to days of the week. Pages 146-161 contain prescriptions for various conditions, for example the hot and cold dropsy (p148). Pages 161-172 contain medical texts on blood letting (p161-162) and the affects of astronomy and astrology (p164-165) with a list of planets with their symbols (p169-170). In different hands and added later at the bottom of p171 is a process using mercury; pages 172-173 have a text titled 'Ignis' in verse form; and pages 173-174 have further verses titled 'A descrypcyon of the fort off iniquitye'. Possibly a translation of the work by Walter Aglion (fl 1220-1260) which exists in an online version of an old University of Cambridge manuscripts catalogue. The date is subject to verification as it was originally given as 14th century. | Late 15th century |
DEP/AWP/5/1/166 | Untitled essay on inflammation by William Pulteney Alison | Possibly includes dropsy. Draft copy. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/169 | Untitled essay on varieties of inflammation by William Pulteney Alison | Includes gangrene, tumours, and dropsy. Draft copy. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/6/1 | Prescription notebook possibly of William Pulteney Alison | The volume includes prescriptions for a number of conditions including lumbago, dropsy, abscess, phthisis, inflammation of the bowels etc. It includes treatments for veterinary conditions. Dated from a reference after a description of how to fumigate hospital wards but most of the entries are c1803. It is not in Alison's handwriting. | c1825 |
DEP/BJW/2/9 | Mounted medical illustration of John Ballantyne: Case F Plate VII | Caption reads: Transverse section of right half of neck of dropsical infant at level of disc between 6th and 7th cervical vertebrae. Description in text Part I p373. Drawing by William Cathie. | 1890s |
DEP/BJW/2/17 | Mounted medical illustration of John Ballantyne: Case F Plate III | Caption reads: Sagittal mesial section of head of dropsical infant - right side. Description see text Part I p360-363. | 1890s |
DEP/BJW/2/18 | Mounted medical illustrations of John Ballantyne: Case F Plate X and Plate IV | Plate X caption reads: Transverse section of right half of body of dropsical infant. Description see text Part I p376. Plate IV caption reads: Sagittal mesial section of pelvis in dropsical infant. Description in text Part I p364-366. | 1890s |
DEP/BJW/2/19 | Mounted medical illustrations of John Ballantyne: Case F Plate IX and Plate VIII | Plate IX caption reads: Transverse section of right half of abdomen of dropsical infant. Description see text Part I p375. Plate VII caption reads: Transverse section of right half of thorax of dropsical infant. Description in text Part I p374. | 1890s |
DEP/BJW/2/39 | Photographs of John Ballantyne: General Foetal Dropsy | Two photographs of a male infant. The name T M Callender is written under the photographs and he may have been the photographer. | Jul 1898 |
DEP/BJW/2/78 | Mounted medical illustration of John Ballantyne: General Foetal Dropsy | Sketch of cross-section of foetus. | 1887 |
DEP/BJW/2/79 | Mounted medical illustration of John Ballantyne: General Foetal Dropsy | Sketch of foetus by William Cathie, marked 'Freeland'. | 1887 |
DEP/BJW/2/80 | Mounted medical illustration of John Ballantyne: General Foetal Dropsy | Sketch of foetus, Marked 'Freeland'. | 1891 |
DEP/BJW/2/81 | Mounted medical illustration of John Ballantyne: General Foetal Dropsy | Two sketches of cross-section of foetus, marked 'Freeland'. | 1887 |
DEP/BJW/2/82 | Mounted medical illustration of John Ballantyne: General Foetal Dropsy | Sketch of foetus by William Cathie. | 1891 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/1467 | Letter from James Boswell, James's Court to William Cullen | Case of Dr Johnson. 'Dear Sir - Dr Johnson has been very ill for some time; and in a letter of anxious apprehension, he writes to me 'Ask your Physician about my Case'. This you see is not authority for a regular consultation. But I have no doubt of your readiness to give your advice to a man so eminent, and who in his life of Garth has paid your profession a just and elegant compliment. 'I believe every man has found in Physicians great liberality and dignity of sentiment, very prompt effusion of beneficence, and willingness to exert a lucrative art, where there is no hope of lucre'. Dr Johnson is aged 74. Last summer he had a stroke of the palsy, from which he recovered almost entirely. He had before that been troubled with a catarhous cough. This winter he was seised (sic) with a spasmodick (sic) asthma, by which he had been confined to his house for about three months. Dr Brocklesby writes to me, that upon the least admission of cold, there is such a constriction upon his breast, that he cannot lye (sic) down in his bed, but is obliged to sit up all night, and gets rest and sometimes sleep, only by means of laudanum and syrup of poppies; and that there are edematous tumours on his legs and thighs. Dr Brocklesby trusts a good deal to the return of mild weather. Dr Johnson says that a Dropsy gains ground upon him; and he seems to think that a warmer climate would do him good. I understand he is now rather better, and is using vinegar of squills. I am with great esteem Dear Sir your most obedient humble servant, James Boswell. The letter is quoted in Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson'. | 7 Mar 1784 |