DEP/ABJ/3/2/10 | Notes of John Abercrombie: case note | Case of a married woman with symptoms after delivering her first child. | c1809 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/82 | Correspondence of John Abercrombie: case note | Case of Mrs Burns. She gave birth on 15th April but had had problems with her bowels during her pregnancy. Gives an account of her illness and a post mortem report. Correspondent unknown. | 27 May 1823 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/354 | Letter from H [Herbert?] Vardy, Whalton, Morpeth, England to John Abercrombie | Case of Mrs Trevelyan. He doubts her belief that she is often pregnant. | 5 Jan 1843 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/371 | Letter from J Inglis Nicol, Inverness, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of Mrs F, 44, with irregular uterine functions, frequent urination, diarrhoea and pain in the hypogastric region. | 10 Aug 1844 |
DEP/ABJ/4/3/14 | Testimonial for John Abercrombie: Letter from John Ramsbotham, Broad Street Buildings, [London... | Addressed to Dr Gordon. Ramsbotham was lecturer on midwifery at the London Hospital and Physician Accoucheur to the Lying In Charity. Letter number 17. The testimonial was written on the occasion of Abercrombie's application for the Chair of the Practice of Medicine following the death of Dr James Gregory (in which he was unsuccessful). | 25 Apr 1821 |
DEP/ABJ/4/3/16 | Testimonial for John Abercrombie: Letter from Dr Conquest, London, England | Conquest was physician to the City of London Lying In Institution and lecturer on midwifery. Letter number 19. The testimonial was written on the occasion of Abercrombie's application for the Chair of the Practice of Medicine following the death of Dr James Gregory (in which he was unsuccessful). | 26 Apr 1821 |
DEP/ABJ/4/3/33 | Testimonial for John Abercrombie: Letter from Joseph Clarke, Dublin, Ireland | Addressed to A Billing, Bedford Place, London, England. Clarke was physician to the Dublin Lying in Hospital. The testimonial was written on the occasion of Abercrombie's application for the Chair of the Practice of Medicine following the death of Dr James Gregory (in which he was unsuccessful). | 26 Apr 1821 |
DEP/ACB | Collection of Christian Bernhard Albinus | | 1763 |
DEP/ACB/1 | 'Ars Obstetricia' by Christian Albinus | Printed slip pasted on flyleaf reads 'F Gräver'. | 1763 |
DEP/ALW/4/1 | Certificates of Merit of William Alister Alexander | The certificates were awarded by the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Medicine for practical chemistry, anatomy, practical zoology, experimental physiology, elementary botany, intermediate practical anatomy, practical materia medica, practical histology, surgery (junior), practical pathology, medicine (junior division), midwifery and gynecology, forensic medicine, public health, mental diseases, clinical surgery, diseases of the skin, diseases of the eye and diseases of the larynx, ear and nose. | 1908-1912 |
DEP/ALW/4/2 | Class tickets and certificates of attendance of William Alister Alexander | The certificates were awarded by the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Local Government Board, Edinburgh City Hospital for Infectious Disease and Glasgow Maternity and Women's Hospital for forensic medicine, surgery, public health, public vaccination, clinical medicine, diseases of the skin, mental diseases, diseases of the ear nose and throat, practical anaesthetics, diseases of the eye, medicine, clinical surgery, midwifery and gynecology, materia medica, practical pathology, practical materia medica including pharmacy, anatomy, practical chemistry, physics, elementary botany, physiology, practical histology, zoology, and acting as clinical clerk and attending the hospital. | 1908-1912 |
DEP/ANO/2 | [Patient case book, author unknown] | Each case note is headed either with the name of the patient or their condition. The notes include prescriptions and a journal of the patient's progress. All the entries are in Latin with some titles in French and occasional use of English. Some of the patients are eminent such as Lord Conway (p23), Lord Rich (p36), Lord Beauchamp (p42), Sir Henry Wallop (p54), Lady Carr (p77) and the daughter of the Queen of Bohemia (p138). There are also a number of patients with foreign names such as Mrs Vanbrugge (p90), Mrs Vanderputt (p145), Signor Jeronymo Veneto (p151) and Madamoyselle Moncon (p244). At the rear (pp285-286) is a letter in English addressed to Her Grace concerning what she hoped was a pregnancy but the physician thought otherwise. The dates are from p251 (1633) and p230 (1642). However, as the entries are not chronological there may be earlier and later entries. Extensively indexed at the rear by condition. Nowhere is the doctor named. | 16 Jul 1633-7 Jul 1642 |
DEP/ANO/5 | Set of seven medical notebooks by unknown authors | The small notebooks are all in the same format and the same handwriting and the subject matter is obstetrics and child health. The author is unknown but as they combine notes from textbooks with lecture notes and as such are likely to have been kept by a student. None of the notebooks are dated but internal evidence suggests after 1762. | c1770 |
DEP/ANO/5/2 | Volume of childbirth cases, author unknown | Cases of childbirth identified by the patients' initials. | c1770 |
DEP/ANO/5/5 | 'Volume of Crantz [Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz] - Instruments', author unknown | Crantz became a lecturer in obstetrics at St. Mary's Hospital, Vienna in 1754 and from 1756 to 1774, he taught physiology and medicine at the university. The notes are from his book 'Commentatio de instrumentorum in arte obstetricia historia utilitate et recta ac praepostera applicatione' which he published in 1757 and mention various doctors and the instruments they used. These doctors include Moschion, Hippocrates, Avicenna [Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina], Albucasis [Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahraw] and Paré. | c1770 |
DEP/ANO/5/6 | Volume of Levrette [André Levret], notes on obstetrics and child health, author unknown | Levret (1703-1780) was a French obstetrician who practised medicine in Paris. The notes have numbered paragraphs which may relate to pages of the book. | c1770 |
DEP/ANO/28 | Student lecture notes of 'Rules in Midwifery both Practical and Theorytical', author unknown | The volume contains lectures numbered 4-12 (although the early part of the volume may be lectures 1-3) but the lecturer is unknown. The final page is signed by Ramsey who may have taken the notes but nothing is known about him. A number of obstetrical sources are cited including Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709), Hugh Chamberlen (1630-1720 or 1664-1728), Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), Pierre Dionis (1643-1718) and Henrick van Deventer (1651-1724). The date of the volume has been based on the dates of these authorities. Flyleaf signed by Dr James Hamilton junior. | 1730s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/167 | Untitled essay on obstetrics and gynaecology by William Pulteney Alison | Draft copy. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/7/4 | [Extracts of notes on medical subjects by William Pulteney Alison] | Includes: 'Inflammation of the Mucous Membrane from Dr Abercrombie on Diseases of the Stomach and Abdomincal Viscera'; 'Description of the Yellow Fever from Blane's Observations'; 'Erysipelatous Peritonitis from Dr Abercrombie on Diseases of the Stomach and other Abdomincal Viscera 1828'; 'Extracts from A P Wilson Philip's Experimental Enquiry into the Laws of Vital Functions'; 'Extract from John Cooke's Treatise on Nervous Diseases Volume I'; 'A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations on the particles contained in the pollen of plants and on the general existence of active molecules in organic and inorganic bodies by Robert Brown'; 'Of the Causes of Nervous Disorders from Robert Whytt's works 1768'; 'Of the causes which promote the circulation of the fluids in the very small vessels of animals R Whytt's works'; 'Mechanism of the Human Skeleton from Arnott's Elements of Physics 1828'; 'Of the Nature and Uses of the Nervous System from Cooke's Treatise on Nervous Diseases'; 'On Uterine Irritation and its Effects on the Female Constitution 1823'; 'From Darwin's Zoonomia';and 'Observation on Cancers by Henry Fearon surgeon to the Surrey Dispensary 1789'. | 1830s |
DEP/BEC/1 | The Physicians', Surgeons' and General Practitioners Visiting List, Diary, Almanack and Book of... | The volume was used by Edward Barnes to record the patient visits he made and whether they had paid. He had a system of symbols to indicate what the patient visit had entailed which he listed at the front of the diary. There was also space for general engagements; pages for obstetric and vaccination engagements; and memoranda pages used for expenses. This was found in an envelope with the diary at ANO/36 and may have been donated at the same time. | 1865 |