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DEP/CUL/1/3/16	Letter from Willm [William] Wright, Worlds-end Close [World's End Close, Edinburgh] to William...	He sends a parcel of Cinchona Jamaicensis 'which you'll find a most agreeable bitter'. He also sends capada bread - jatropha janiph [?] - made from the grated roots and gives a recipe for a pudding using it. He also expects a box of cascarilla and other barks from Glasgow and will send Cullen samples. In index.	1 Oct 1787
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/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/DUN	Collection of Andrew Duncan the younger		1803-1820
DEP/GOO/2/3	Pages from a journal titled 'Epitome of Current [Writing]' collected by Alexander Goodall	Under the heading Neurology and Psychology is a summary of an article by H C Gram in the 'Ugeskrift for Laeger' [Doctor's Weekly] July 26th 1934 on the distribution of disseminated sclerosis in Denmark; and a summary of an article by R Brickner on quinine therapy in multiple sclerosis. Attached is a handwritten summary of an article by Gowlland in the British Medical Journal 1935 on the progress of disseminated sclerosis cases treated with liver.	c1935
DEP/HAR/1/4/10	Harveian Society - Notice to students of medicine [of the subject for the prize essay 1847]	The subject was an inquiry into the comparative therapeutic effects of bebeerine and quinine.	1846
DEP/LAT/1/22	Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Inflammation - Pathology - Path [Pathological] Anatomy - Etiology...	Contains 'The influence of the nervous system on inflammation'; 'Treatment of Inflammation - Prophylactic - Curative'; 'Proximate cause predisposing exciting stages of inflammation'; 'Anatomy and Sequelae of Inflammation'; 'Inflammation - General Facts'; and 'Theories of the formation of fibriae'. Also includes a letter from J F O'Ryan, Tipperary on the relation of blisters to the nervous system, 1875; case of local neurotic tubercle from the Lancet, 1871; 'On the nature and physiological action of the poison of naja tripudians and other Indian venomous snakes' by T Lauder Brunton, 1874; and small cuttings on liquor lyttae in scorpion sting, the influence of quinine on suppuration and the action of medicines on the vessels of the brain, 1874.	1871-1874
DEP/LAT/1/23	Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Malaria - Agues - Remittents - Contind [Continued]	Contains 'Malarious Fevers' with an extract from a textbook on specific fevers; 'Intermittent Fevers' with an extract from a textbook on remittent fevers and pernicious remittents; and 'Mesenteric Glands'. Also includes 'On the treatment of fever by cobweb' by James Donaldson, 1863; 'On the remittent fever of the west coast of Africa' by John M Hunter, 1873; memorandum by J Breutle [?] on his own case of ague, 1861; and small cuttings on quinine as a cure for ague, on arsenious acid as a substitute for quinine, treatment of ague by heat to the spine, arsenic in intermittents, arsenic in ague, on brassfounders' ague and, from the Indian Medical Gazette, on malaria, 1861-1873.	1861-1873
DEP/LAT/2/38	'Clinical Lectures on the Physiognomical Diagnosis of Disease' and 'Clinical Remarks on points in...	Printed in the Medical Times and Gazette with illustrations. There are 11 lectures on physiognomical diagnosis covering the importance of diagnosis of constitutions in practice, diathetic diagnosis, methods of observation, how influence of hereditary tendencies should be determined, temperament, handwriting as modified by the nervous system, diagnosis of degeneration, degenerations of nervous system, diathetic diagnosis of pulmonary consumption, physiognomy of the scrofulous diseases, syphilitic scrofula, rheumatic consumption, diathetic diagnosis of gouty or atheromatous consumptions and haemoptysis, diathetic diagnosis of Bright's disease and or cardiac and renal dropsies, oedema and anasarca, the diagnosis of blood diseases and skin diseases. The lecture on practical therapeutics covers the difficulties of therapeutical inquiry and observation, tonics, strychnine, quinine, iodide of potassium, mercury and podophyllin. Includes inserts: notes on precordial vascularity and the beard and complexion, at February 1st 1862; and letter from Arthur Mitchell concerning the ears of idiots and imbeciles with additional notes, December 2nd 1861.	Jan 1862-Jan 1863
DEP/MOR/4/42	Illustration captioned '3rd view Jeffreys puerperal mania Bethlem cured'	Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 10 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston]. 'E. I. plate 8, restored to reason. In this case a blister applied to the nape of the neck, and a discharge kept up by the application of Savine Ointment, appeared to expedite the recovery, which was completed by the use of Sulphate of Quinine, in about nine months from the commencement of the disorder'	1837
DEP/PRJ/1/1	Medical Annotations Volume 1 by Sir John Pringle	The volume is divided into short chapters headed: dysentery; mercury and mercurials; lues venerea; gonorrhoea virulenta; pharmaceutical observations; sprains, luxations and contusions; ileus or inflammatory colic; pregnantium and parturientium morbi; chalybeates; Peruvian bark; flatulence and carminatives; fevers in general; hiccup; rheumatism; small pox; apoplexy and palsy; hydrocephalus; ani morbi; hepatitis, jaundice, gallstones and other diseases of the liver; military fevers; epilepsy; hectic heats, hectic and slow fevers; haemoptoe and phthisis pulmonalis; turpentine; disorders of the stomach and intestines - worms, colics and fluxes excepted; diuretics; vertigo; dropsy; antimony and antimonials; diseases of the kidneys and bladder; diseases of breeding and lying-in women; volatile alkaline salts and spirits; setons and issues; blisters and sinapisms; bleeding, cupping etc; mineral and vegetable acids; ulcers and sores; plasters, ointments etc; cataplasms and fomentations; lime water; worms; virginian snakeroot; diseases of infants and children; struma or scrofula and other glandular tumours; ulcerous sore throat; erysipelas inflammation; lepra [leprosy], scurfs, tetters and other cutaneous foulnesses; and burns. On the front flyleaf is a note by Pringle that he bequeaths the ten volumes of Medical Annotations to the library of the Royal College of Physicians, dated 21st February 1780. Dated from entry p18.	c1778
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/PRJ/1/10	Medical Annotations Volume 10 by Sir John Pringle	The volume is divided into short chapters headed: haemorrhoids; soap and fixed alkaline salts; neutral salts; astringents; opiates; small pox; asthma; Peruvian bark; gout; ophthalmia; colds, coughs and pectorals; phthisis pulmonalis and haemoptoe; hemorrhages and floodings; tussis convulsiva; measles; gangrene or mortification; menses and chlorosis; diseases of infants; white swelling; convulsive disorders; sea and marsh scurvy; hysterical hypochondriacal and other nervous disorders; thermae warm bath and vapour bath; sternatatories; lepra [leprosy], scurf, tetters; syncope; epidemic fever and dysentery in Franche Comté; and dysentery. There are far fewer cross references to previous volumes. The volume is a draft copy with amendments. There is no index to diet and medicines and the index of names and places is at the rear. Dated from an entry on p85.	c1777
DEP/RUS/1	[Correspondence of Patrick Russell]	The volume starts with a copy of a letter from Russell to Sir Joseph Banks on tabasheer (tabashir) in which Russell describes the various names of the drug and its uses in the middle east. It is dated 26th October 1788 at Vizagapatam. This is followed by a copy of a letter from Russell to Sir Joseph Banks dated 22nd November 1788 (although received per Manship, director of the East India Company, on 20th June 1789) concerning the snakes of the coastal area and remedies against their poison. It incorporates a copy of a letter from William Duffin dated 5th January 1778 at Vellore which contains a prescription also used against bites from mad dogs; and two further testimonies on the efficacy of Duffin's treatment from James Ramsay, surgeon to the third Regiment of Cavalry, and Eccles Nixon, Colonel Commanding at Vellore. After the letters is a copy of an article titled 'A Botanical Description of a new Species of Swietenia (Mahogany) with Experiments and Observations on the flowers of its Bark comparing them with those of Peruvian Bark for which it is proposed as a Succedaneum'. No author is given but it is followed by another copied article 'Observations and Cases relative to the Swietenia Febrifuga' by Dr William Roxburgh, received per Manship 8th November 1792, so the previous article may also be by Roxburgh. The second article describes 16 cases in which the swietenia febrifuga bark had been used. It was published in Medical Comment, 1793. It is not known who copied the letters and articles or when.	c1792
DEP/TAH/4/30	Subject file of Haldane Tait: [Envelope of newspaper cuttings and articles]	The cuttings are very miscellaneous. Some of the subjects include: polio vaccine; First World War nurses; Edith Cavell; Stephen Hales; James Hope; Claude Bernard and Francois Magendie; Etienne Marey and Jean Chauveau; Sir Thomas Lewis; heart disease; history of dropsy; psychiatry; geographic medicine; diets in Nepal; health hazards of Cornish tin mining; quacks; medicine and the navy; medical physics; Joseph Lister; vaccination; statue to Jenner; Macmillan's medical publishers; David Livingstone; London Cinchona Bureau leaflet; medicine among the American Indians; letters and leaflets from publishers about recent books; letter from 'Jean' with notes on Chiron as a symbol for healing; first day covers for stamps commemorating Lister; letter from 'Archie' asking for a reference for Lister's theory on the sterile nature of alveolar air; and a note of thanks to Tait from Health Visitor students signed by them all. Originally in an envelope labelled 'Taken from the H P Tait Collection'. The original location of the items is not known.	c1942-c1984
DEP/WAA/3/47	Illustration collection of Alexander Watson: [Botanical specimens]	Printed drawings of cinchona ovalifolia, exostema peruviana and cinchona condaminea. Uncaptioned.	c1830
OBJ/OBJ/3/2/10	Quinine medicine bottle	Quinine, sold by Andrew Robertson, Chemist and Druggist, Markinch; supplied by Duncan, Flockhart & Co., Edinburgh. Quinine is a powdered form of cinchona bark which can be administered orally or intravenously. Its use as a treatment for and vaccine against malaria was discovered by Scottish physician George Cleghorn (1716-1789), who is credited with having eradicated malaria from Europe. Although useless in such small quantities against malaria, quinine was mixed with tonic water in British India and the bitter taste prompted colonials to mix it with gin, creating the Gin and Tonic.	[19th century]
OBJ/OBJ/3/6	Materia medica medicine chest (unknown owner)	This item consists of: - Two matching medicine chests. These two chests each consist of a chest of drawers and a wooden cabinet place on top the chest of drawers. These were possibly part of the materia medica display held in the College during the nineteenth century. - Three volumes which record the medicines contained in the chests. - A wooden tray with apertures designed for carrying glass medicine bottles. - Medicine bottles and boxes (all of which still contain original contents). These consist of: 31 unlabelled bottles, 59 labelled bottles, 1 unlabelled box, 126 labelled boxes. The labelled bottles are: No. 78 - [Section of volume noting contents of this bottle is missing] No. 90 - Acidum Arseniosum No. 100 - Ammoniae Bromidum No. 101 - Antimonium Tartaricum No. 104 - Argenti Nitrus Oxydum No. 105 - Berberiae Sulphas No. 106 (2 bottles) - Bismutti Sub. No. 109 (3 bottles) - Camphora No. 113 - Colchici Semina No. 115 - Elaterium No. 116 - Ferri Arsenicas No. 117 (3 bottles) - Ferri Carbonas Sacharata No. 118 (2 bottles) - Ferri et Ammon: Citras No. 119 - Ferri et Lumcae Citras No. 120 - Ferri Jodidum No. 121 - Ferri Oxydum Magnet. No. 122 - Ferri Sulphas No. 125 - Hydrarg: Jodi: Viridide No. 126 - Hydrarg: Jodi: Rubrum No. 127 - Hydrarg: Jodi: Oxydum No. 128 - Hydrarg. Perchloridum No. 129 - Hydrarg. Subchloridum No. 134 - Lithiae Carbonas No. 136 - Magnesia No. 138 - Magnesia Carbonas No. 140 - Urphiae Hydrochloras No. 141 - Opii Pulvis No. 142 (2 bottles) - Plumbi Acetas No. 144 - Plumbi Jodidum No. 145 - Podopbylli Resina No. 146 - Potassa Sulphuatae No. 149 - Potassa Chloras No. 150 - Potassa Nitras No. 151 - Potassa Permanganas No. 154 - Potassa Tartras Acida No. 155 - Potassii Bromidum No. 157 - Lumcae Sulphas No. 158 - Santorinum No. 159 - Soda Tartarata No. 160 - Soda Arsenias No. 162 - Soda Carbonas No. 163 - Soda Phosphas No. 165 - Strychmia No. 166 - Sulphur Jodidum No. 167 - Zinci Acitas No. 168 - Zinci Carbonas No. 170 - Zinci Sulphas No. 171 - Zinci Valerianas No. 172 (2 bottles) - Jalapa Pulvis No. 173 - Acid Oxalic No. 176 (2 bottles) - Dorers Powder The labelled boxes are: No number: Duncan Flockhart and Company, Calcium Chloride No. 1 - Acaciae Gummi No. 2 - Acouiti Folia No. 3 - Aconite Radex No. 4 (3 bottles) - Aloe Barbadensis No. 5 (3 bottles) - Aloe Socotrina No. 6 (2 bottles) - Alumen No. 7 - Ammoniacum No. 8 - Ammonii Chloridum No. 10 - Anthemides Floris No. 11 - Arnica Radex No. 12 - Bellae Fructas No. 13 - Belladonna Radix No. 14 - Belladonna Folia No. 15 - Borax No. 16 - Buchu Folia No. 17 (3 bottles) - Calumbra Radix No. 18 - Cambugia No. 19 - Canella Alba Cortex No. 20 - Cantharis No. 21 - Cardamomum No. 22 - Carvi Fructas No. 23 - Caryophylleae No. 24 - Catechic Pallidum No. 25 - Cetaceum No. 26 - Cetraria No. 27 - Chirata No. 28 - Cinchona [Harabortex] No. 29 - Cinchona [Pallidabortex] No. 30 - Cinchona [Rubrabortex] No. 31 - Cinnamoni [Bortex] No. 32 (3 bottles) - Colchici Cormus No. 33 (3 bottles) - Colocynthidis Palpa No. 34 - Conii Folia No. 35 - Conii Fructas No. 36 - Crocus No. 37 - Cubeba No. 38 - Cusparia Cortex No. 39 - Cusso No. 40 (3 bottles) - Digitalis Folia No. 41 - Dulcamara No. 42 (3 bottles) - Ergota No. 43 - Felix Mas No. 44 - Galbanum No. 45 - Galla No. 46 (3 bottles) - Gentiana Radix No. 47 - Glycyrhiza Radix No. 48 - Granti Radicis Cortex No. 49 - Guaicaci Lignum No. 50 - Guaiaci Resina No. 51 - Haematoxyli Lignum No. 52 - Hyoscyami Folia No. 53 (3 bottles) - Ipecacuanha No. 54 (3 bottles) - Jalapa No. 55 (3 bottles) - Kino No. 56 - Krameria Radix No. 57 - Lobelia No. 58 - Lapulus No. 59 - Magnesia Sulphas No. 60 - Manna No. 61 - Mastichi No. 62 - Matica Folia No. 63 (3 bottles) - Nux Vomica No. 64 (3 bottles) - Opium No. 65 - Pareirae Radix No. 66 - Papareris Capsula No. 67 (3 bottles) - Physostigmatis Faba No. 68 - Piper Nigrum No. 69 - Pix Burgundica No. 70 - Podophylli Radix No. 71 (3 bottles) - Quassia Lignum No. 72 - Quercus Cortex No. 73 (2 bottles) - Rhei Radix No. 74 - Sabrina Cacumina No. 75 - Santonica No. 76 - Sarzae Radix No. 77 [no description of this item in volume] No. 78 - Scammoniae Radix No. 79 (3 bottles) - Scammoniae [Resmia] No. 80 (3 bottles) - Scammonium No. 81 (3 bottles) - Scilla No. 82 - Senega Radix No. 83 - Senna Alexandrina No. 84 - Serpentariae Radix No. 85 - Sinapis No. 86 - Sulphur Precipitatum No. 87 - Sulphur Sublimatum No. 88 - Taraxaci Radex No. 89 - Zingiber The tray, volumes and medicines are now stored separately from the medicine chest.	19th century
OBJ/OBJ/3/9	Brown leather medicine case	This is a purpose-made case with sections designed to fit each medicine. It contains 8 medicine bottles of the following: Chlorodyne (x2) Quinine Chlorate of potash, bofax and cocaine Bilious, aperient and liver pills Phenacetin (x3) The case also contains a small glass measuring device and a red leather packet of 'Court Plaisters'. The latter contain instructions detailing how to apply the plasters. The plasters and bottles are all labelled with 'Pope Roach & Son, Pharmaceutical Chemists, 8 St. James Street, London'. This medicine case was donated to the College by a descendent of past College President Stuart Threipland. Although it is not of the correct date to have belonged to him it may be connected with a member of the Threipland family.	[mid 19th century]

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