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DEP/AWP/5/1/161

Untitled essay on factors affecting disease by William Pulteney Alison

Heads for a possible lecture on 'Effects of Diet on Health', 'Of Exercise as a cause of health or disease', 'Of exposure to unusual heat and cold as a cause of disease' and 'Effects of Excitation of Mind in preventing the attacks of disease'.

1820s - 1850s

DEP/BAM/1

Transcriptions of talks delivered by Mike Barfoot

The talks are:

Club of Science Studies Unit, Edinburgh (late 1970s), 'Interests and Instincts'

Scottish [Philosophy Seminar], Edinburgh (early 1980s), 'Gregory on Causation Activity and Language'

Wellcome Seminar, Edinburgh (27 March 1985), 'Clinical Medicine at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the Eighteenth Century'

George Drummond Tercentenary Lecture, Edinburgh City Chambers (1986), 'George Drummond'

The Legacy of Adam Smith Symposium, Vancouver (September 1990), 'Adam Smith and William Cullen: Hypochondriasis and the Pathology of the Imagination'

Wellcome Symposium, London (19 February 1993), 'Desirous of Power Over the Minds of Men: The Early Life of Thomas Laycock, 1812-1876'

Edinburgh History of Medicine Group Seminar (16 March 1994), 'To Ask the Suffrages of the Patrons: Thomas Laycock's Election tot he Edinburgh Practice of Physic Chair, 1855'

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Symposium (27 September 1995), 'The Body Politic: Bennett's Edinburgh Career, 1848-1875'

Symposium in Memory of Professor William Parry-Jones, History of Psychiatry in Scotland (10 October 1998), 'Peribinkles and the Tiger's Head: Making-out as an Asylum Assistant Physician in Nineteenth-Century Scotland'

Wellcome Seminar [early 1990s?], 'Thomas Clouston'

British Society for the History of Medicine, Edinburgh conference (1990s), 'Edinburgh's Infirmary in the 18th century - The Birth of the Clinic?'

Talk from unknown event (12 March 2008), 'Alexander Morison'

Wellcome Trust Regional Forum, University of Glasgow (10 October 2009), 'David Skae's Lectures on Insanity at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum'

'Paper given at Aberdeen and perhaps elsewhere' (early 2000s), 'Love's Labour's Lost: The Work, Exercise and Health of Pauper Inmates of Nineteenth Century Scottish Asylums'

Wellcome History of Psychology Conference, [2000s?], 'A 19th century Lit. and Ill Society: The Royal Edinburgh Asylum Library Club'

[Late 1970s-2000s]

DEP/CUL/1/2/1787

Regulations which have been usefull for Preserving the health of the Loyal Irish Corps in The...

From the collection of William Cullen. William Dalrymple Captain Commandant of the Loyal Irish Corps issued the rules for the health of his men 'rules...which experience has proved to be attended with much success'. There are 12 rules which cover: avoiding the sun; exercising only in the morning and evening; steps to be taken if exposed to the sun; avoiding northerly winds; cleanliness of the barracks; encouragement of the consumption of vegetables and fruit; allowance of rum mixed with water; banning of new rum; when suffering from mosquito bites salt provisions to be substituted with fresh; men at Kingston or Augusta forts to be moved to Liguanea barracks when they fall ill as their recovery is quicker; and an officer to examine the quality and quantity of provisions when they are distributed. Undated. May relate to CUL/1/2/415 which mentions Captain Commandant Dalrymple being about to go on a voyage.

c1785

DEP/CUL/1/2/2220

Letter from [Lady Selkirk] to William Cullen

Gives extensive detail of her childcare regime concerning bathing, feeding, fresh air, purging, learning to walk and exercise. Unsigned.

29 Mar 1788

DEP/CUL/1/2/2259

Draft letter by William Cullen regarding an unnamed female patient

Case of an unnamed male patient with gout. Gives details of drink, food and exercise. Addressed to the patient. Written on the reverse of scraps of used paper, one of which is a note from Dr Monro and another of which is dated June 1788, giving the approximate date of this draft.

Jun 1788

DEP/CUL/7

'An Essay on the Hypochondriac Disease in a Letter' by William Cullen

Handwritten in neat style by William Cullen, this essay is in the form of a letter to an unknown correspondent. The addressee has made complaints about the imperfections in the study of medicine which the author endeavours to correct placing more responsibility with the patient. The author lists six 'non-naturals' as important to a hypochondriacal patient's regimen: air, diet, exercise, the passions of the mind, excretions and sleep and watching. Although written as a fair copy there are a few pencil amendments in the hand of Cullen’s 19th-century biographer, Dr. John Thomson. The volume is not dated but the context of the essay, as well as the style, suggest it may have been undertaken to solicit patronage, placing it in the 1750s or 1760s. Indexed.

This appears to be the final, or near final, draft of Cullen’s ‘An Essay on the Hypochondriac Disease in a Letter’. Earlier, partial drafts of this same essay in Cullen’s hand can be found in the Cullen Papers held at the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections: see MS Cullen 337. Also, an extensive handwritten transcription of this version of the essay can be found at MS Cullen 405 (likely in the hand of William Thomson, one of John Thomson’s sons).

In terms of provenance, this volume was sent to the College by Dr David Craigie (on behalf of Allen Thomson, son of John Thomson) in February 1861. In a letter accompanying the donation, Craigie provided a list of the manuscripts that were being donated, which included 'One quarto Volume: Manuscript, Red Morrocco [sic]. On the Hypochondriac Disease', which is this very same volume - also bound in red Morocco. For further details, please consult the bound RCPE Minutes, 1859-1861, pp. 5383-87.

This volume was reclassified from ANO/8 to CUL/7 in February 2024 following research by Dr Jeff Wolf who was able to confirm that this item was in Cullen's own hand.

Late 18th century

DEP/GIR/2/3/3

Slides produced by the Department of Surgery, Edinburgh University

From the collection of Rae Gilchrist. The slides have reference numbers which may reflect the year in which the slide was made. The slides show varieties of heart block; results for exercise tests including electrocardiograms; results for atropine tests; portraits of William Stokes and Robert Adams; electrocardiograms showing results of Stokes-Adams seizures and complete heart block; and patient case notes. All the slides are labelled 'Department of Surgery, Edinburgh University'. In purpose-made slide storage.

c1936-c1953

DEP/GIR/2/3/6

Slides produced by the Department of Surgery, Edinburgh University

From the collection of Rae Gilchrist. The slides have reference numbers which may reflect the year in which the slide was made. The slides show statistics for ventricular arrest during surgery, operative mortality for various conditions, the rheumatic heart in pregnancy, impact of prostatectomy, accuracy of diagnosis and impact of anti-coagulants; patient case notes; charts showing impact of exercise and drugs on heart rate; and heart block . All the slides are labelled 'Department of Surgery, Edinburgh University'. In a purpose-built slide box.

c1960

DEP/MJF/1/1

Files of John Munro: Mr William Dick

Includes:

Folder 1 - notes with index on carbohydrates, steroids, proteins, nucleic acid, enzymes, nutrition, vitamins, blood, utilisation of energy, digestion, metabolism, chemistry of muscular exercise and hormones on numbered pages (1-103) originally held together with treasury tags; and notes on physiology originally held together with treasury tags and in a binder labelled 'The Edinburgh Academy'

Folder 2 - notes on physiology possibly from a book as they are arranged into chapters. Includes shock; kidney; the heart and circulation; respiration; body fluids; skeletal muscle; nervous system; sense organs; ductless glands; pituitary; cerebral cortex etc.

Folder 3 - cards with notes on spirochaetal infections, fungi, hospital cross infection, malaria, viruses, staphylococci, streptococci, spirochaetes, pneumococcus, bacteria and viruses etc - one set headed 'JFM [John F Munro's] crib'

1950s

DEP/MOR/4/40

Illustration captioned 'Jeffreys under restraint puerperal mania Bethlem'

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 9 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].

'E. I. plate 8, taken seven months after her disorder commenced.

Gentle laxatives, nourishing diet, fresh air and exercise, effected some improvement; she, however, required occasional restraint, on account of a disposition to tear her clothes during the whole interval.

Premature communication with her friends was prejudicial, and was succeeded by greater violence, her conversation became more incoherent, and she spat at those around her.'

1837

DEP/PRJ/1/6

Medical Annotations Volume 6 by Sir John Pringle

The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: obstinate cough; apoplexy, palsy and numbness; folia cicuta [Hemlock]; Jesuites bark; air, climates, diet, exercise; causes of contagious diseases; bread; of the pulse and crises in fevers; fixed alkaline salts and soap; blisters, issues, setons, sinapisms; and haemoptoe and vomiting of blood.

Inserted at p191 are three letters from Van Swieten dated 18th December 1760, 13th January 1762 and 20th July 1764 in Latin and English. Inserted at p494 an account of the state of the weather at Gibraltar in the month of September when influenza was at its height on board His Majesty's fleet, dated 1762; and an account of the epidemick cold that appeared in the town of Newcastle upon Tyne in the spring 1762 with further accounts in Latin by the physician to the Russian minister at Vienna and the physician to the King of Prussia. Inserted at p499 are two letters in French concerning taenia, dated 1762 and transcribed within the volume. Inserted at p521 is a letter from a physician in Marseilles concerning spa water, dated 1763. Pages 57-64 and 178-179 have been cut out. The volume is a draft copy with numerous amendments. The index of names and places is at the rear. Dated from an entry on p229.

c1767

DEP/RMS/1

[Papers read to the Royal Medical Society]

The volume contains the following papers: 'Observations on the Fever which prevailed among the Soldiers of the South Fencible Regiment while quartered in Edinburgh Castle' by Dr Bell (pp1-36); 'What objections may be made to the doctrine of morbific matter; of the rationality of the Soul making efforts to remove morbid states; of the properties of the blood and fluids, as thick or thin, acid or bland, constituting the sound or morbid states and to that of spasm either with or without debility affords proper fundamental principles for medical reasoning and practice' by Mr Campbell, titled 'Brunonianism' in the index; 'On Ulcers' by Mr Lister; 'Has Sea Bathing any other effects on the constitution than the common Bath of an equal temperature? In what diseases ought it to be used in what avoided' by Dr John Young (pp1-30); 'Of some accidents from blood letting' by Mr J [John] Young, 14th April 1779 (pp1-32); 'What are the uses of perspiration and how far may the diminution of it be supplied by other evacuations?' by L Nihell, question proposed by H Slaughter; 'What are the diseases induced by a sedentary and literary life?' by Mr Fenwick (pp1-47); 'On chronic rheumatism' by Jacob Pattisson; 'De Fermentatione' by G Lister (in Latin); 'Is Mercury to be reckoned specific in the small pox?' by Dr Willan, read to the Medical Society of Edinburgh January 1780 (pp1-27); 'Excerpts from Experiments on the nerves of living animals' by Mr Cruickshank; 'Barometer' from De Luc (Jean-André Deluc, 1727-1817, Swiss geologist and meterologist. Not all the papers have authors but the index at the front gives their names.

The reference to the Medical Society of Edinburgh at the head of Dr Willan's essay has led to confusion with the earlier Edinburgh Medical Society (1731-1737). However, the Royal Medical Society was originally constituted as the Medical Society which presumably remained its name until the granting of the Royal Charter in 1778 and might explain Willan's term. The volume dating from shortly after the charter may explain why there is no reference to the name 'Royal Medical Society' in the volume. A note in the volume from the eminent American medical historian Guenter Risse reads 'Edinburgh Medical Society = Royal Medical Society. This volume unique. 1.9.72'.

1779-1780

DEP/ROA/2

Student notes of Alexander Robertson from lectures of Andrew Duncan on medical jurisprudence

Title as given on volume is: 'The Praelectiones of Andrew Duncan MD on the Theory of Medicine Delivered at Edinburgh in 1792-93 Abridged Volume 2nd'. The volume contains lectures 1-31 of 'Part III - Medical Jurisprudence' and is divided into four headings: 'Concerning Questinos medico-legales which come before Criminal Courts' with the further headings under homicide - inspections of the body, wounds, contusions, hanging, drowning, suffocation, poison, child murder, abortion and rape; 'Concerning questions before Civil Courts' with the further headings under insanity - mania, melancholia, idiotism, pregnancy, delivery, suppositious birth, alleged diseases; 'Concerning questions before Consistorial courts' with the further headings impotence in men, sterility in women, hermaphrodites, venereal infection; and 'Concerning Questions with regard to Medical Police' with the further headings air, water, food, exercise, contagion, prisons, hospitals and burial of the dead. Bookplate of Alexander Robertson MD on front flyleaf and inscribed 'Ex Libris Alexr Robertson Edinburgi - presented by Dr Fitzpatrick'.

1792 - 1793

DEP/STJ/2/5/6

Meeting papers of the Coronary Heart Disease Core Group of the Scottish Health Education Co...

From the collection of John Strong. These were originally tied together with treasury tags.

Folder 1 - summary of Chief Administrative Medical Officers' reports on food policies; paper on nutrition education produced by the Scottish Health Education Co-ordinating Committee; Health education initiatives and coronary heart disease - memorandum by chairman, May 1985; minutes of a meeting of Scottish Health Education Co-ordinating Committee 18th June 1985; Strong's notes on a meeting of 22nd August on nutrition with minutes; minutes of meeting 3rd July with Faculty of Community Medicine guidelines for health promotion 7 - promoting exercise; letter from Dr Groden, Crosshouse Hospital on prevention of heart disease and the reply from the Scottish Home and Health Department, November 1986; Greater Glasgow Health Board's cardiovascular disease prevention programme; Strong's notes from a meeting of 14th November with minutes; editorial in The Lancet on the need for a government food and health policy; draft of a Heart and Health campaign produced by the Department of Health and Social Security; and papers for meeting of 26th January 1987 including a discussion paper from Carol Logan, dietician, Lothian Health Board and letter from Francis Mackay on the activities of the Scottish Health Service School of Catering.

Folder 2 - Heartbeat Wales summary of progress, September 1986; minutes of Coronary Heart Disease Core Group 26th January 1987 with a letter from Carol Logan giving corrections; letter from Carol Logan offering the help of the dietetic profession and enclosing an article 'Preventive Nutrition and Society' by M R Turner; letter from M F Oliver suggesting names of possible cardiovascular advisor to the Scottish Health Education Group and enclosing correspondence with the author of the British Cardiac Society report (see STJ/2/5/1) and its inaccuracies; minutes of Coronary Heart Disease Core Group 28th May 1987 with a letter from Professor Hugh Tunstall Pedoe correcting mistakes in his contribution; discussion paper from the chairman on the work of the Scottish Health Education Co-ordinating Committee; and minutes of Coronary Heart Disease Core Group 18th August 1987 with a letter from Dr D P de Bono on his contribution.

1987

DEP/STJ/5/26

'The Effect of Exercise on the Level of Non-Esterified Fatty Acids in the Blood' by John Strong...

Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology.

1960

DEP/STJ/5/61

Seminar on Fenfluramine and Obesity Nassau, Bahamas

From the collection of John Strong. Strong gave a talk on glucose tolerance and the metabolic response to exercise in obese patients treated with fenfluramine. Includes 'Plasma growth hormone in the long-term follow-up of acromegalics treated with x-ray and radioactive implants' by John Strong et al.

Feb 1971

RCP/COL/2/4/112

Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine

Contains minutes for the following dates:

13 July 1998

8 September 1998

11 December 1998

14 May 1999

3 November 1999

28 April 2000

7 November 2000

18 May 2001

16 November 2001

29 May 2002

15 November 2002

29 May 2003

1998-2003

RCP/COL/2/4/119

Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK)

Initially known under the title of Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

Contains minutes for the following dates:

7 November 2000

3 December 2004

8 April 2005

20 May 2005

28 September 2005

2 December 2005

8 March 2006

23 November 2006

1 February 2007

18 April 2007

6 September 2007

22 November 2007

2000-2004

RCP/COL/8/88

College Presidents' subject file: Sports medicine

Presidents' subject file containing: report on 'Sports medicine and the Conference of Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties', report by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 'Diploma in sports medicine', report on 'Sports medicine - the intercollegiate venture' and a draft constitution and business plan of the 'Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine (IABSEM).

1989-1997

RCP/COL/9/635

Consultation response to the Department of Health on 'Sport and Exercise Medicine: Developing...

2004