DEP/ABJ/4/1/287 | Letter from James Macgibbon, South Lodge by Stirling, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of his sister, previously attended by Dr Dinsmore, with fluor albus, a cough and perspiration. | 16 Jun 1825 |
DEP/ANO/5/3 | Volume of prescriptions ('Proscrip'), author unknown | Lists of prescriptions including: 'floodings'; 'for a gleet or fluor albus'; 'for a schirrous menses'; 'Lisbon diet drink'; 'injection for a gonorrhea'; and 'for a woman accustomed to the [discharge?] after the menses'. | c1770 |
DEP/ANO/7 | Volume of medical receipts and prescriptions, author unknown | The volume has been rebound. On the front is an original label 'Medical Receipts and Prescription' and on the rear 'Receipts and Prescriptions Dr Garthshore'. It has been used for a number of purposes and is in a number of different hands. From the front the pages are numbered 1-248 and consists of prescriptions and receipts (or recipes) divided into a number of sections. These are headed: 'Draughts' (page 1); 'Julapia' (page 7); 'Powders' (page 33); 'Receipts for children' (page 34) which are continued pages 42-43; 'Prescriptions Dr Cooper contra epilepsiam pro Comite Darlington' (page 39); 'Pharmacopaeia Noscomii Divi Thomae' (pages 44-71); 'Pharmacopaeia Noscomii Thomae Guy Armiger' (pages 72-89); an entry for distemper among horned cattle published at Magdeburg (page 90); Dr Ward's Nostrums', a list of nine prescriptions which were published 1763 (pages 92-97); 'fitt water for children' (page 98); and 'Formulae Medicament Dr Hugh Smith' (pages 99-165). From page 165-248 there are no headed sections although each prescription is clearly delineated.
From the rear the pages are numbered 728-800 and consist of extracts from medical texts, including prescriptions, with a name or names which are presumably the authors. The texts are titled: 'Of the Chlorosis or green sickness' Perry (pages 728-732); 'Of a Suppression of the menses' Perry, Pitcarn (pages 744-749); 'Of floodings' Cheyne (pages 765-768); 'Of the fluor albus or whites' Cheyne, Pitcarn, Perry (pages 780-788); 'Of the Furor Uterinus' Perry; 'Of Sterility and Barrenness' Perry; 'Of Abortions and Miscarriages' Perry; 'Of a hard delivery' Pitcarn, Perry; and 'Of the prolapse of the womb and anus' Perry.
The volume is undated although some of the prescriptions are, the latest being 1778 (page 111). There is an index which starts on the front flyleaf, continues on the last page and back flyleaf and is completed on p4. The index simply lists the prescriptions by page number and is not alphabetical. It is in a different hand from the majority of the text. | c1778 |
DEP/ANO/25 | [Three medical tracts on women's diseases, skin diseases and children's diseases], author unknown | The volume consists of three tracts. The first is titled 'Tractatus De Affectibus faeminarum' and is on women's diseases with symptoms and treatment for each. The first section is titled 'De Chronicis Faeminarum Affectibus' and is divided into 8 chapters: 'De chlorosi' (pp2-22); 'De Suppressione' (pp22-?); Chapter 3 not titled; 'De Fluore albo' (pp54-75); 'De hydrope uteri' (pp75-95); 'De prolapsu uteri' (pp96-114); 'De cancroso uter tumore' (pp114-133); 'De passione histeriae' (pp133-153). The second section is titled 'De morbis mulierum acutis' and is divided into 8 chapters: 'De furore uterino' (pp154-172); 'De uteru inflammatione' (pp173-193); 'De Abortu' (pp193-215); 'De Partu difficili' (pp215-233); 'De immodico Cochiorum fluxu' (pp233-246); 'De Lochiorum suppresione' (pp247-258); 'De Febre lactea' (pp258-269); 'De Dolorificis aut saltem visu taclu que fadis mammarum et abdominis post partum rugis' (pp269-276).
The second tract is titled 'Tractatus affectuum cutaneorum' which is divided into 20 chapters: 'De Phlegmone' (pp1-54) with the sub-headings 'De Furunculo' (pp9-140; 'De Panaritis seu paronychia' (pp14-19); 'De carbunculo seu anthraie' (pp19-26); 'De Bubone' (pp26-30); 'De abscessu et ulcere Fisuloso' (pp30-37); 'De Gangrena et Sphaulo [?]'(pp38-54); 'De Erysipelate' (pp54-61); 'De Schirro' (pp61-69); 'De oedemate' (pp69-73); 'De emphysemate' (pp73-82); 'De ambustione' (pp83-93); 'De contusione' (pp93-104); 'De Canero' (pp104-120); 'De Strumis' (pp120-134); 'De atheromate steatomate et milliceride' (pp134-145); 'De Lupia et Ganglis' (pp145-152); 'De aneurismate et varice' (pp152-167); 'De Scabie' (pp167-177); 'De herpete' (pp177-189); 'De Lepra [leprosy]' (pp189-206); 'De Rheumatismo' (pp206-222); 'De Arthritide' (pp223-239); and appendix 'De Tumore Seroso' and continuations of the other chapters (pp239-250). Index.
The third tract is titled 'De Morbis infantum' with the chapters (no page numbers): 'De Incommodis graviditatis'; 'De Periculo Partus'; 'De iis quae supervire solent infantibus post exitum'; 'De vomitu et singullu'; 'De torminibus ventris seu colico dolore'; 'De difficili dentitione'; 'De alvi profluvio'; 'De alvi adstrictione'; 'De ani procidentia'; 'De hernia'; 'De umbilici prominentia et Ipsius inflammatione'; 'De intertrigine'; 'De crusta lactea, acoribus etc'; 'De Tinea'; 'De Phthiriasi'; 'De Lumbrius'; 'De Ventris'; 'De convulsione et mortibus'; 'De Epilepsia'; 'De Strabismo'; 'De Calculo vesciae urinariae et urinae incontinentia'; 'De hydrocephalo'; 'De Rachitide'; 'De aphthis, vesiculis gengivarum et inflammation tonsillarum'; 'De variolis'; 'De morbillis'; 'De variolis lymphatiis'; 'De Strumis'; 'De macie [?], tussi et fascinatione'; 'De pavore in somno'.
Originally had a slip with 11 Nov 1994 101/3 which was possibly a lot number. Probably purchased November 1994. No information in Library Committee minutes. In a lot with ANO/26 and MCL/1. | 18th century |
DEP/ANO/33 | Index to a volume of papers, provenance unknown | The index may be from a bound volume of papers given to a medical society or similar. The list is 'Observations on Phrenitis Vera' by Walter Craufurd; 'Remarks on Ascites' by J Borland; 'Observations on Dyspepsia' by J Rogerson; 'On Hepatitis' by W Cochran; 'Some Observations on Acute Rheumatism' by Robert Sime; 'On Fluor Albus' by William Graham; 'Observations on Small-Pox' by James MacDonald; 'Considerations upon Palsy' by Thomas Addis Emmet; 'On Diabetes' by James Forster; 'On Catarrh' by Adam Mitchell; 'On Pleurisy' by John Barrow; 'On Phthisis Pulmonalis' by J Rutter; 'On Jaundice' by Mr Cassillis Shaw; 'On Cholera' by William Steedman; 'On Hydrothorax' by J Hamming; 'On Chin-cough' by J Towers; 'On Dysentery' by Samuel [Fitt?]; 'On Hypochondriasis' by J Laidlaw; 'On Puerperal Fever' by W Scott; and 'Observation on Menorrhagia' by J Towers. | 1784-1785 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/1257 | Letter from John Gilchrist, Dumfries, Scotland to William Cullen | Case of an unnamed female patient and of Mr Gibson of Kelton. Also mentions Van Doeveren of Leiden's practice of giving testacea [?] for fluor albus. | 6 Apr 1782 |
DEP/CUL/2/1/13 | William Cullen's lectures on practice of physic, volume 4 | The headings are: 'Tumours', 'Of Ulcers', 'Hydrophobia', 'Vesania', 'Dropsy', 'Rachitis', 'Scurvy', 'Scorbutus','Chlorosis', 'Of Inflammation', 'Phlegmasia', 'Of the gout', 'Exanthemata', 'Small pox', 'Scarlatina', 'Plague', 'Miliaria', 'Urticaria', 'Profluvia', 'Dysentery', 'Haemorrhagia', 'Menorrhagia', 'Epistaxis', 'Hemoptysis', 'Phthisis', 'Hemorrhois [haemorrhoids]', 'Fluor Albus', 'Aitiologia', 'The Application of Philosophy', 'Prolegomena', 'History of Medicine' and 'History of Practice'. At the rear are lists of names and a table forming part of a a chronology of medicine. Includes a lecture dated 4th November 1746 two-thirds of the way through the volume. See also CUL/2/2/13. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'. | 4 Nov 1746 - c1770 |
DEP/CUL/2/1/15 | William Cullen's lectures on institutions etc | The volume consists of a number of sections. In the first section (possibly not all in Cullen's writing) the headings are: 'Atonics', 'Mennorrhagia','Fluor Albus', 'Abortus', 'Amenorrhea', 'Catarrhus', 'Dystenteria'. The second section is on various treatments which include blistering, Peruvian bark, stimulants etc. The third section is headed 'Of Fevers' but may not be entirely on that subject and includes the date 3rd January 1772.The fourth section is incomplete and appears to be about the physiology of muscles and fibres. After this there are what may be proofs of the printed contents pages from the 'Institutions of Medicine' with page number annotations. In amongst these are notes which may be for the sections of the book listed. At the rear of the volume are pages in Latin which have numbered sections I-XXXII and may therefore be a lecture plan. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'. | 3 Jan 1772 |
DEP/CUL/5/4 | 'First Lines on the Practice of Physic for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh... | Book IV - 'Of Hemorrhagies' consists of chapters 2-8: 'Of the epstaxis or hemorrhagy of the nose', 'Of the hemoptysis of hemorrhagy from the lungs', 'Of the phthisis pulmonalis or consumption of the lungs', 'Of the haemorrhois of of the haemorrhoidal swelling and flux', 'Of the mennorhagia or the immoderate flow of the menses', 'Of the leucorrhea, fluor albus or whites' and 'Of the amenorrhea or interruption of the menstrual flux'. Book V - 'Of Profluvia, or Fluxes with Pyrexia' consists of two chapters: 'Of the catarrh'; and 'Of the dysentery'. Heavily annotated. The annotations at the back of the volume (p386) are dated 5th April 1781. Index to the first and second volumes at the rear. | 1779 |
DEP/GJO/4/4 | Student notes by unknown individual from lectures of John Gregory on the practice of physic | The volume covers hydrops pectoris, hydrocephalus, scrofula, rickets, tinea, scabies, scurvy, lues venerea, gonorrhoea, jaundice, the stone, worms, hydrophobia, gripes or cholic, the tinea capites, diseases of women, fluor albus and abortion. Index at rear. | 1768-1769 |
DEP/PON/1 | Student notes of William Pond from clinical lectures of John Rutherford | The book is signed on the inside front cover by William Pond with the heading beneath 'Dr Whyte's Clinical Lectures' and on the page before the index 'William Pond May 17th 1762'. According to a note by Douglass Taylor in the original manuscripts catalogue, although the volume was originally attributed to Robert Whytt, he thought it should be John Rutherford. Many of the cases and the lectures on specific conditions are the same word-for-word as those in AUA/1 which are clearly assigned to Rutherford. Pond may therefore have reused a volume he had intended to use for Whytt. However, there is a reference on p318 within a lecture 'On Worms' to 'a clinical patient of Dr Rutherfurd's' (rather than to 'a patient of mine'). This would seem to indicate that this lecture at least was not by Rutherford.
The volume consists of patient's case studies with a heading giving the condition. The lectures on specific conditions are on venereal disease, scurvy, fluor albus, headache and worms. Also included is an abstract of a lecture by Professor Alexander Monro senior 'On a Surgical Patient in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - A Burnt Breast' which appears at p273 and again at the end after the index. | 19 Jan 1753 - 17 May 1762 |
DEP/PRJ/1/4 | Medical Annotations Volume 4 by Sir John Pringle | The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: watchfulness, sleep, opiates and calmers and antispasmodics; chronic obstructions, aperients or deobstruents; angina inflammatoria; cancers, ulcers mali moris and sores of difficult cure; acids and coolers; astringents, styptics; scorbutic sores on the legs; sternutatories; perniones, kibes; tumours; sea and marsh scurvy; Bristol water; scirrhous; ancylosis; gangrene or mortification; septics, antiseptics, putrefaction, putrid disorders, foul air; theories and experiments upon the brain - nerves, spasms, convulsions etc; bleeding, cupping etc; measles; fluor albus and gonorrh [gonorrhoea] non virulenta; colica pictonum; diabetes; malum hystericum and hypochondriacum; languour of the fibres and stimulants; and diet in acute diseases.
Pages 66-71, 189, 193, 358-359, 408 and 422 have been cut out. The volume is a draft copy with numerous amendments. There is an extra index to additional articles at the front and the index of names is at the rear after which is a continuation of hectic heats, hectic and slow irregular fevers from p145. Dated from an entry on p144. | c1769 |
DEP/RJO/3/1 | Clinical lectures [of John Rutherford] | The volume starts with an introduction followed by a heading Clinical Lectures starting at p13 and dated 14th January 1750. After lecture 2 on 29th January it is less clear that the cases are divided into lectures. Although they are still dated, the dates are not consecutive. Each case study gives a heading followed by a case study giving the patient's name, age, diagnosis and treatment. The volume also includes three lectures clearly stated as by Dr Rutherford, on Inoculation (p181), on Epilepsy (p195) and on Scrophula (p213). A further four general lectures on venereal diseases, on scurvy, on fluor albus and on headache are included at the end. There is an index at the rear which give's the patient's name and disease but no page numbers. | 14 Jan 1750 - 28 Jan 1751 |
DEP/RJO/3/4 | Clinical lectures given by Dr John Rutherford in the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh, volume 2 | The volume consists of a case note for each of the following conditions: cattarh, pleurisy, epilepsy, diarrhoea and haemoptoe (pp1-51). This is then followed by: 'Directions for Innoculating the Small Pox' by Andrew St Clair (pp52-69); 'Directions concerning Inoculation' by Dr Rutherford (pp70-71); 'Of the Venereal Disease' [pp72-106]; 'Of the Scurvy' (pp107-117); 'Of the fluor albus' (pp118-123); 'Of the Head-ach [ache]' (pp124-132); 'Of the Scrophula' (pp133-143); and 'Of the Epilepsy' (pp144-166). After the index at the rear are two treatments for piles, a recipe for cough mixture and one for tincture of squills. Although no author is given for the essays they are on the same subjects as those at RJO/3/1.
The other volumes in this series are much earlier. However, the cases are not the same as in the earlier volumes so it is not simply a later copy. It is possible that Rutherford kept lecturing until two years before he died. The student who took the notes is not known, nor is the location of volume 1. | 1777 |
DEP/SJY/2/5 | Letter from W Tyler Smith to James Young Simpson | Letter to James Young Simpson with the case of Mrs Campbell.
Found in 'The Pathology and Treatment of Leucorrhoea'. | 9 Jan 1854 |