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DEP/AWP/1/6/4

Lecture notes taken by William Pulteney Alison from lectures on materia medica by Professor James...

A list at the rear gives the contents as: rubefacients and vesicants; errhines; sialogogues; expectorants; emetics; cathartics; diuretics; diaphoretics; stimulants; sedatives; arrangements of dietetics; and history of medicine. The page numbering is from pp 1-3, 270-368 and103-314.

1808 - 1809

DEP/AWP/5/1/200

Essays on therapeutics by William Pulteney Alison

Essays titled 'Diaphoretics and Sudorifics', 'Effects of Heat', 'Cathartics', 'Emetics', 'Cold as a Sedative', 'Counter Irritants' and 'Arrangement of Therapeutics'. Draft copies.

1820s - 1850s

DEP/CUL/1/2/37

Letter from unnamed correspondent to William Cullen

Part of a letter about fluctuations in strength of a tartar emetic. Incomplete.

6 Aug 1764

DEP/CUL/1/2/982

Letter from Thos [Thomas] Johnston to William Cullen

Case of his brother. Suggested treatment of a tartar emetic on the reverse.

27 Aug 1780

DEP/CUL/2/1/3

William Cullen's lectures on materia medica, volume 2

The sections are: 'Medical Virtues of Sulphur and Alcohol', 'External Medicines', 'Specific Purgatives', 'Of Drinks', 'Of the More Universal Remedies', 'Evacuations', 'Nutrients', 'Therapeutics Stimulants', 'Sedatives', 'Sedantia', 'The Means of Preventing or Curing Diseases', 'Methodus Medendi [in Latin and English]', 'Therapeutice [various forms - astringentia, emollientia, sedantia, blood letting etc]', 'Astringents', 'Corrosives', 'Hygiene', 'P L [the only dated section], 'Of Particular Aliments', 'Antacida', 'Blood letting', 'Emetics', 'Purgatives', 'Emmenagoga [Emmenagogue]', 'Of Poisons' and 'Calculus'. At the rear of the volume are lists of drugs. Two inserted notes in the volume which may not be contemporary read 'Do not these correspond with the notes in the printed copy of the syllabus?' and 'Notes of Therapeutical Lectures for an entire session'. It should be noted that not all the sections have obvious headings and some may have been missed. Because the volume consists of separate note the date range will almost certainly be wider than the one dated item. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'.

20 Jan 1764

DEP/CUL/2/1/10

William Cullen's lectures on practice of physic, volume 1

The volume starts with plans for each dated lecture. This is followed by what is possibly an earlier section headed 'Methodus Medendi [Method of Healing]' which is numbered on every other page from page 1-62. After this there are sections with headings: 'Of Fevers', 'Nosological Remarks on the Genera and Species of Fevers', 'Nosological Method', 'Reflections on the Doctrine of Fevers', 'Recapitulation', 'Observations on the Use of Emetic Tartar in Fevers', 'Yellow Fever of the West Indies' and 'P L - Pyrexia [dated 9th June 1768]. See also CUL/2/2/13. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'.

4 Nov 1746 - 8 Nov 1785

DEP/DUA/3/2

'History of the Continued Fevers That Occurred in the Clinical Wards of the Royal Infirmary Under...

Report discussing the 17 cases of continued fever treated in the clinical wards of the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, Scotland, between 1 May 1810 and 1 August 1810. Titley outlines the types of fever treated, the course the disease took in several of the patients, and the various treatments administered. These include: emetics, cathartics, cold and warm affusions, tepid washing, pediluvium, bloodletting, blisters, wine and other stimulants (such as aether sulph, ammonia aromas and cinchona), opium tinctures and enemas, submuriate of mercury, acid drinks, lavender and peppermint water, effervescing draughts, diaphoretics, and refrigerants. This report was discussed by Dr Andrew Duncan in his 'Report Presented to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Respecting the Contagious Epidemic Diseases Which Have Prevailed, in That City and Its Neighbourhood, During the Year 1810'.

1 May 1810-1 August 1810

DEP/LAT/1/12

Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Stomach - Proem - Acute Gastritis - Chronic Gastritis - Dyspepsia...

In the title the subjects in square brackets were later annotations. Contains 'Diseases of the Digestive Organs'; 'Chronic Gastritis - Indigestion - Dyspepsia' with cutting on 'Diseases of the glands of the stomach - fatty degeneration - hypertrophy - ulceration - treatment' by Dr Lees; 'Chronic Ulcerative Gastritis'; 'Diseases of the Abdomen'; and 'Nosology of Diseases of the Intestinal Canal'. Also includes advertisements for Belloc's charcoal and lactopeptine c1875; 'On the employment of ipecacuanha administered in injections in the choleriform diarrhoea of young children and in the diarrhoea of tuberculous patients' by Dr Chouppe, 1874; from the Medical Circular 'On Rennet Wine' by George Ellis; 'The physiology of vomiting and the action of emetics' by Dr Lauder Brunton; and 'Phantom Tumour' by Kenneth Reid, c1862.

c1862-c1875

DEP/LAT/1/68

Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Pneumonia - Abscess - Gangrene - Pleurisy - Empyema - Pneumothorax

Contains 'Chronic and consecutive diseases of the pleura' with section on empyema; 'Pleuritis, Pleurisy' with nosology of pleurisy; and 'Pneumonia' with nosology of pneumonia. Also includes case note with post mortem on a patient, Allan McFie, with icteric pneumonia, 1864; 'A case of empyema in which the operation of paracentesis thoracis was performed followed by the insertion of a drainage tube' by Dr Fincham, 1862; and small cuttings on herpes in relation to pneumonia, thoracentesis, carbonate of ammonia in pneumonia, apparatus for extracting fluid from the cavity of the pleura, modus operandi of nitre tartar emetic and other remedies in thoracic inflammation, puerperal fetid pulmonary abscess, pneumonia in children, influence of age on mortality etc 1862-1873.

1863-1866

DEP/MCC/1/4

[Notebook 4 of Professor Ian McCallum]

A list on the front of the notebook gives the following contents: Wilson Chymistry [A Compleat Course of Chymistry by George Wilson] 1709; Salmon Pharm Lond [Pharmacopoeia Londinensis] 1678; James Pharm Univ [Pharmacopoeia Universalis] 1764; Packard Patin [Guy Patin and his Medical Profession in Paris by F R Packard] 1924; Sloan 5-essence [The Book of Quintessence by M S Sloane] 1465; Gesner Bib Univ [Bibliotheca Universalis] 1545; Schroder Pharm Med [Pharamacopoiea Medico-Chymica] 1644; Schröder Quercet Red [Quercetanus Redivivus by Johan Schröder] 1648; Schröder Chym Disp [The Compleat Chymical Dispensatory] 1669; Hutchinson Arch Surg [Archive of Surgery] 1893; Quercetani Ad Verit [Ad veritatem hermeticae by Josephi Quercetani] 1605; Quercetani De Prisc [De Priscorum Philosophorum veræ Medicinæ] 1613; Quercetani Med Op [Medici Opera Medica]1600; Ingram Hutchinson [My Hero - Sir Jonathan Hutchinson by J T Ingram] 1970; Miller Sb Poisoning [Poisoning by Antimony by J M Miller] 1982; Haller Tartar Emetic [The Use and Abuse of Tartar Emetic by J S Haller] 1975; Figala Newton [Newton as Alchemist by Karin Figala] 1977; Taylor Sb Poisoning [On poisoning by tartarized antimony by A S Taylor] 1857; Bacon, Roger 'Basil Valentine'; Maier, Michael 'Tripus Aureus'; Cabanès Antimony; Taylor, Sherwood 'The Idea of the Quintessence'; Jean-Pierre Tricot Basil Valentine [Currus Triumphalis Antimonii]; Bennett Spot Ward [Joshua Ward by H S Bennett].

1990-1991

DEP/MCL/1

Student notes taken by Robert McLean from lectures of William Cullen on the practice of physic

Title as given on volume is: 'Robert McLean - Student of Physick Edinburgh October 31st - Notes from Dr Cullen professor of the practice of [physick]'. The first page of the volume is titled 'Notes on Dr Cullen's Practice of Medicine Jan 16th 1775'. The following headings are given: 'Prognostics of Fevers' (p1); 'Of the state of debility' (p7); 'Of the vital functions' (p8); 'Of the critical days in fevers' (p13); 'Of the cure of fevers in general' (p18); 'Of the proximate cause of fevers'; 'Of blood letting' (p26); 'Of purging' (p31); 'Of emetics' (p40); 'Of antispasmodics' (p44); 'Warm bathing' (p50); 'Tonics' (p54); 'Of direct stimulants' (p57); 'Of Intermittant fevers' (p64); 'Phlegmasia' (p71); 'Of grangrene' (p75); 'Of the remote cause of inflamation' (p77); 'Of the cure of inflammation in general' (p79); 'Ophthalmia' (p83); 'Of the visceral inflammation' (p87); 'Cynanche or angina' (p88); 'Peripneumonia and pleurisys' (p93); 'Pericarditis' (p109); 'Peritonitis' (p109); 'Gastritis' (p110); 'Hypatitis' (p112); 'Nephritis' (p113); 'Cystitis' (p115); 'Of Exanthemata' (p115); 'Erisipelas' (p117); 'Pestis and Typhus' (p120); 'Variola' (p130); 'Of inoculation' (p133); 'Varicella' (p1410; 'Rubeola' (p141); 'Scarlatina' (p144); 'Milliaria Edinr 10th Apr' (p149); 'Phlegmasia' (p152); 'Rheumatism Apr 12th' (p152); and 'Athritis' (p164).

Jan 1775-Apr 1775

DEP/MOR/4/154

Illustration captioned 'Bethlem unnatural propensity'

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 58 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned (Johnston).

'Portrait of T. J. D. aged 37, a widower.

This man previous to his disorder bore an excellent character; he was the father of a family, and was of studious and abstemious habits.

The propensity was so strong, that even before a number of persons he could not refrain from exposing his person and attempting to commit the crime; on account of his continually annoying other patients he was for some time kept secluded in his own room; previous to his being sent from home he had attempted to cut his throat, and had, in doing so, cut some of the nerves of his face, thereby producing a slight paralysis, which after some weeks disappeared.

The remedies employed in this case were purgatives, an emetic, a blister to the nape of the neck, the cold bath and camphor, of which eight grains were given three times a day for some weeks; under this treatment the disorder subsided, and he was cured within a year from its commencement.'

c1840

DEP/PRJ/1/2

Medical Annotations Volume 2 by Sir John Pringle, United States of America

The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: diarrhoea and lienteria; gum ammoniacum; soap; cephalalgia, hemicrania; haemorrhages, floodings etc (haemoptoe excepted); pleurisy and perpneumony; cholera; tussis convulsiva; dolor nephriticus; morbus articularis [gout]; diseases of the army in America in campaign 1759 & 1760 which consists of a letter from Dr Richard Huck dated 5th December 1760 from New York [United States of America] and pasted into the volume; intermittents and other periodical diseases; yellow and bilious fever of the West Indies [Jamaica]; colics in general; essential oils, aromatics and cordials; and emetics.

Inserted at p154 is a letter from Alexander Garden at Charleston mostly concerning treatment with mercury, dated 25th April 1761. Attached to pp159 and inserted at p160 are letters from Van Swieten in Latin, dated 13th January 1762, 29th April 1763 and 6th June 1764. Attached to p167 is a letter from Joannes Baptista Morgagni, dated March 1763. Pages 171-202 are pasted in and are in Latin and another handwriting. Pages 119-122 and 131-136 have been cut out. Dated from an entry on p130.

c1774

DEP/TAJ/1

[Jane Taylor Pharmacopoeia]

A volume of medicinal preparations. The first eighty-six pages are in the same handwriting and format with some amendments and attributions, such as the green ointment of Lord of Norwich (p78). From page eighty-six the handwriting becomes less standardised and the preparations include wine and food recipes. On pp135-142 is an index. From the rear are two pages of food recipes, the first page initialled IT and ET who may be Taylor family members. The vellum cover is loose but may never have been attached.

The recipes are:

A salue all manner of wounds broken Boanes + all soares'. Page 1

For the bloudy menster'. Page 1

For Iron or thorne pricking. Page 1

For a pyn and web in the eyes'. Page 1

For swellinge of knees'. Page 1

For him that hath dronck venym'. Page 1

For a sauceleame' face'. Page 2

For swellinges'. Page 2

For all mannor of evills'. Page 2

For hardness of the Woombe [womb]. Page 2

For strong Jaundise'. Page 2

For the Dropsey'. Page 2

For to sley woormes in the eyes'. Page 2

For swelling in a mans throate'. Page 2

Otherwise evill in the throate'. Page 2

To unclose a wounde'. Page 3

To cast out bloud within a man by broosinges or otherwise'. Page 3

For stincking teeth coming of the stomacke'. Page 3

For stinking tethe'. Page 3

For akeing of kees and other ioyntes'. Page 3

A speciall drincke for all feauers'. Page 3

For the Axes'. Page 4

For all aches of Woundes or strokes'. Page 4

For swelling of a Wounde'. Page 4

For the stopping of the stomacke'. Page 4

To take awaye a wenn'. Page 5

For all manner of Woundes festers akeing swellings & other soares'. Page 5

For bolings or brusinges broken bones or other mannor'. Page 5

A speciall oyntment against dead flesh in Wowndes and to cherish the good'. Page 5

An intreat to cast out bones or Impostunes in Woundes'. Page 5

To heale in :V: dayes all scabbs'. Page 6

For the stone'. Page 6

For the Poxe'. Page 6

To take away Pockholes'. Page 7

To make a: n: w: &r:'. Page 7

Yf to sharpe'. Page 8

For a scald hedd'. Page 8

A: Water: fo: th: fa: to: m: it s: of 25: y:'. Page 8

To help a redd face'. Page 8

An: other'. Page 9

To make heare fall of:'. Page 9

A: x: r: f: th: f:'. Page 9

An: other'. Page 10

Against the stone in the bladder'. Page 10

An other'. Page 11

To heale the Emerods or pills'. Page 11

An other'. Page 11

For one that cannot keepe his meate but vomiteth allwayes'. Page 12

Against all paynes in the head'. Page 12

An other'. Page 12

An other'. Page 12

For payne in the eares'. Page 12

To make teeth fall out'. Page 13

To make black teeth White'. Page 13

Against kernells'. Page 13

For a sweet ball:'. Page 13

For the lyuer and milte'. Page 14

Against ache in the gutts'. Page 14

Yf a Woman haue not hir termes to cause them com'. Page 14

For the riseing of the Ma'. Page 14

To make a sweet breath'. Page 14

For horseness'. Page 15

To make heare to growe and not to fall'. Page 15

To cause heare to fall off'. Page 15

For a sausleam face'. Page 15

For drythe in the handes'. Page 16

For the Morphew'. Page 16

For scabbes'. Page 16

For dry scabbs'. Page 16

An other'. Page 16

Against vomitts'. Page 17

Ignis Saluaticus or sacer ignis'. Page 17

To make teeth White'. Page 17

For a woman that is shrank and that shee weer wth: Childe'. Page 17

Whi: f: o: a: W:'. Page 18

A restorat for hir that hath lost hir Nature'. Page 18

For the dropsie in the Woomb in feet and for Constiuens in the stomack for Wormes in ye stomack and for bad sto:'. Page 18

For the Megrim in the hedd Postum in the head Dropsy in the head & for all akeing in the head'. Page 19

For swelling through bloud letting'. Page 19

For one that is deafe'. Page 19

For the Quincye'. Page 19-20

To break Apostumes'. Page 20

To draw out Apostumes'. Page 20

For Closed Woundes not Well healed'. Page 20

For Noli me tangere'. Page 20-21

For a soare yarde'. Page 21

For a fayre face'. Page 21

For ache in the Woomb'. Page 21

For Euill in the back'. Page 21-22

For swelling in the stomack'. Page 22

To draw out broken bones of woundes'. Page 22

For the Fundament goeing out'. Page 22

For him that spitts bloud'. Page 22-23

A purgation'. Page 23

To breake the Stone'. Page 23

Oyle of Exeter'. Page 23-24

For a stincking breath be it in the braynes mouth or stomack'. Page 24-25

To make a good stomack'. Page 25

To make Camph:'. Page 25

To make the beard or head ot grow that yt fall not of:'. Page 25-26

To make hayre black'. Page 26-27

An other'. Page 27

An Excellent Secret'. Page 27

To make hayre growe'. Page 27

For the same'. Page 27-28

c1685

OBJ/ILL/4/11

Print of caricature 'Gentle Emetic' by James Gillray

Published by Hannah Humphrey (coloured engraving).

Image is varnished and partially framed, also damaged and fragile.

1804

OBJ/OBJ/8/7/19

Apomorphine hydrochloride

Historically used as part of a psychiatric treatment (aversion therapy) for homosexuality, although this was not its only use. An emetic. Contained in a vial.

[late 19th century/early 20th century]