DEP/AEC/1/13 | Minute book of the Aesculapian Club volume 5 | Inserted before the meeting dated 5 March 1892 is a report on Andrew Duncan's tomb in Buccleuch church-yard; before the meeting dated 8 October 1892 is a newspaper clipping on the restoration of Dr Andrew Duncan's tomb with a note of contributions made to the costs; before the meeting dated 7 October 1893 is an extra minute on the Dissipation Club, the Gymnastic Club, the election of Dr McLagan as bard to the club etc; before the meeting of 2 June 1894 are extracts from minutes 1820-1870; in the meeting of 11 June 1898 a St Andrews Alphabet being a poem on golf with alphabetical lines by A C B [Alexander Crum Brown] recited at the meeting of 8 October; at the meeting of 8 October the minutes record that Sir Henry Irving was staying at the Palace Hotel where they were dining; and after the last meeting a newspaper clipping with a poem on the Usher Hall site. At the rear are the regulations of the Club dated 1 March 1884; list of members for 1895; and details of membership, subscription, attendance, income and expenditure for 1892-1898. | 5 Dec 1891-8 Oct 1898 |
DEP/AEC/1/14 | Minute book of the Aesculapian Club volume 6 | At the front of the volume are the words to a song. Inserted before the meeting dated 10 June 1899 a poem by G [George] W Balfour; after the meeting dated 18 October 1900 a newspaper clipping on the existence of a brewer named Smith in Ancient Egypt; after the meeting dated 15 June 1901, copies of the minutes for 1799 and 3 January 1800; before the meeting of 14 March 1903 a lecture in the form of a poem on the O S Uteri by Professor James Young Simpson, 1856; and before the meeting dated 10 October 1903, another poem based on the 'Charge of the Light Brigade'. At the rear are the regulations of the Club dated March 1902; list of members and the year admitted; and details of membership, subscription, attendance, income and expenditure for 1899-1903. | 10 Dec 1898-10 Dec 1903 |
DEP/ALW/4/14/11 | Poem 'In Loving Memory of Dr A Alexander' | Written for a Dr Alexander who died in 1894; possibly William Alister Alexander's father and written by him. | 1960s |
DEP/ANO/6 | Notebook of a variety of material - journal entries, poems, natural history notes, author unknown | From the front the volume contains notes from 'Physiologie des passions, ou, Nouvelle doctrine des sentimens moraux' Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, 1826 and 'The Book of Nature' by John Mason Good, 1834 (with sample of grass); poem by Elizabeth Leslie Findlater, obtained from her mother July 11th 1827; notes on the inhabitants of the moon based on Olbers' theory; further poems by Findalter including one on the proposed move of Wallace's sword; notes on plants and birds with their Latin names; the affect of the mind on the body with notes from Dr M Bailie and Dr Brown's 'Philosophy of the Human Mind', 1838; notes on the fate of female children of Indians from 'Criticism of Franklyn's Second Expedition'; description of petrified trees in Ohio [United States of America] from Silliman's Journal (American Journal of Science), June 1827; a poem from 'Bishop Heber's India', 1828; and (almost at the end of the volume) a list of references to scientific works. The front section also contains the following inserts: the definition of an animal secretion (written on the reverse of a torn envelope addressed 'To Will[iam]') and a slip with references to works on natural history (both next to the page with Findlater's poem on Wallace); Thatcher's diagnosis of puerperal fever (written on the reverse of a prescription signed by Will[iam] F Browne) and book references to Ulysses Aldrovandus and Barton's 'Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania' (both after Bishop Heber's India); list of birds with their Latin names and book references on botany and medicine (three quarters through the volume); and list of animals with their Latin names and habits (a few pages before the last entry).
From the rear is a journal entry for May 1826 in which the writer reports the responses of Grant and Dr Milligan to plane trees near Lover's Lane and a conversation with RG on love.
From evidence in the volume the writer may be a William F Browne. | c1838 |
DEP/ANO/10 | 'Extracts from the Italian Poetry - Sonnets, Triumphs, Odes', author unknown | The first poem is titled 'Sopra Venezia - Bettinelli', probably by Saverio Bettinelli (1718-1808), an Italian Jesuit priest and writer. There then follow titles which are either the names of poets or poems: Coppetta; sonnet by Bennedetto dell'Uva during the seige of Famagusta, 1571; sonnet by Salandri to a young bride; Guarini; Frugoni; Tasso; Trionfo d'Amore; Trionfo della Castita; Trionfo della Morte; Trionfo della Fama; Morte desiderata dall'apparenza di su visioni; and sonnets. There then follows a short text on the Italian lyrical minstrels (in English) then 'Canzone - Di Celio Magno di Venezia Segretario della Repubblica mori nel 1502'; Michelangelo Buonarotti Fiorentino; and further sonnets. Some of the poems have English introductions. Loose in the rear of the volume is another Italian poem. At the front are a draft and fair copy of a poem about a woman (in English); English translation of part of canto 33 of Dante's Inferno; and a draft letter addressed to Dr Balfour from the editor of the 'Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal' (probably Andrew Duncan) returning his papers dated 3 November 1821. | c1821 |
DEP/ANO/24 | Volume on 'Secretion of Bile', author unknown | The volume contains a text on the secretion of bile which is written on every alternate page. It has the sub-headings 'Uses of the Bile', 'Explanation of bilious diseases in India', 'Remitt [remittent] fever', 'Bilious flux', 'Hepatitis' and 'Suppuration of the Liver'. The unused pages have been used for other work. From the front: on the flyleaf is a poem about doctors by John Owen quoted by Joseph Lickbarrow, surgeon, 1670; a draft letter to an unnamed addressee asking for a professional reconciliation; a passage from a literary work incorporating a ballad about Duncan Gerr quoted in the 'new edition' of Rob Roy by Walter Scott and a poem titled 'The Withered Tree'; a draft letter of introduction for John Lawrence and signed by R Turner, a recent medical graduate and addressed to his lecturer; draft letter to a doctor objecting to his interference with his patient, John Grant, by recommending leeches; draft article 'On the evidence to be found in the writings of Shakespeare of his knowledge of medicine'; draft article on the lack of respect shown to medicine by authors such as Walter Scott and James Boswell; and a draft article on the use of tobacco.
From the rear: a literary work with another copy of the poem 'The Withered Tree'; 'Notes on Comparative Anatomy from Sir Charles Bell's (Bridgewater) Treatise on 'The Hand' (published 1833) with a diagram of the arm; and a draft response to an essayist with the theory that plays and novels are the same thing. Includes loose inserts: notes on the novel as a literary form; small slip with the words 'Lambeth Street incendiarism'; and notes on a torn copy of the title page of 'Appendix to the catalogue of the Aberdeen Public Library' (published 1838). | c1838 |
DEP/ANO/46 | Sketched colour illustrations of the human body and diseases, with related notes | Images include: heart, lung, kidney, stomach showing death from inebriation [James Churnside], stomach showing impact of suicide by arsenic [Mary Gooche], rope marks from a man who hung himself, cancerous tumours, amputated knee joint [James Robertson], various Royal Infirmary amputations, leg of a 'middle aged sailor who had suffered from bad provisions of water on a sea voyage'.
Most images have information on the rear as to their contents. There are further written descriptions which are not clearly associated with a particular image. The folder containing the images has what appears to be ['I N Watson, 51 Queen St'] written on it.
Also contains clippings of images from medical publications, a print map of Edinburgh, a traced map of Fife, sketches which appear to be of a court case ['The Hustings, Edinburgh, 1834'], a prescription for an unnamed patient, a print of 'Mr Liston's case' from the Edinburgh Medical Journal with 'Alex Watson' written on it, a poem, and sketches of 'vaccina 1821'. | 1821-1840s |
DEP/ANO/52 | 'The Art of Preserving Health', a poem by Dr Armstrong, London, 1744 | Contains only cover sheet, not poem itself. | [1750] |
DEP/AWP/5/5/1 | Journal of William Pulteney Alison | The diary gives an account of Alison's trip to Rouen, France, Paris, France, Geneva, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chamonix, France (where he failed to reach the summit of Mont Blanc), Milan, Italy, Pavia, Italy, Lake Como, Italy, Arth, Switzerland and the Rigi, Switzerland, Engelberg, Switzerland, Reichenbach, Switzerland, Berne, Switzerland, and Tours, France, amongst other places from August to November 1820. He records people he met, conversations, sites seen and hospitals visited. It also contains reminders to himself and an account he heard about smallpox at the front and financial accounts of the trip at the rear. Includes loose sheets with entries for 7 November, 9 November, 13 November and 17 November, giving details of visits to the Hospice de la Maternité, Les Enfants Malades and Val-de-Grâce in Paris, France and including some poetry on Oberhasli, Switzerland and the Tyrol, Switzerland (stored separately).The previous catalogue also indicates that the passport at AWP/5/5/6 was originally with this volume. | 1820 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/82 | Extract from The Fishing Gazette | From the correspondence of Edwin Bramwell. Poem titled 'The Don Brigade' by Grace Rollo. | 23 May 1931 |
DEP/BRE/3/3/1 | Toast to the health of D P D Wilkie on his admission to the Medico-Chirurgical Club | From the collection of Edwin Bramwell. Toast in the form of a poem. | 21 Mar 1929 |
DEP/CHR/1/1 | Student notes of Robert Christison from lectures by James Gregory on the practice of physic | Title as given on volume is 'Notes from the lectures on the Practice of Physic of Dr James Gregory delivered in the University of Edinburgh 1816-17'. A note on the title page reads 'the first part of the Professor's historical lectures, from p X to p XXIII inclusive were copied by me about 1845 from notes taken about the same period as my own by Mr J F Macfarlan' and signed by Christison. The volume ends with an abstract of Cleghorn's 'Treatment of Intermittents', 'Influence of the Sun and the Moon on Intermittent Fevers' from James Lind on 'Diseases of Hot Climates' and a poem by Thomas Dibdin. | 1816 - 1817 |
DEP/COJ/2/1/4 | History of medicine lectures of John Dixon Comrie | 'History of Medicine' typescript p1-134 including at p46 a printed poem 'The Two Physicians' by R Ogilvie. | 1938-1939 |
DEP/CRD | Collection of David Craigie | | c1780-1822 |
DEP/CRD/2/2 | Poetry collected by Andrew Craigie | This series contains poetry, possibly by Andrew Craigie although none of the items are signed and the handwriting changes. Although it is also possible that some are copies of well-known poems by other people, as is the case at CRD/2/22, many of them have corrections which implies that they are original. Where there are no corrections this is indicated in the entry. In each case the first line of the poem has been entered as the description. | c1820 |
DEP/CRD/2/2/1 | [Poem] collected by Andrew Craigie | 'When the bright minister of heaven is gone...' Possibly by Andrew Craigie. | c1820 |
DEP/CRD/2/2/3 | [Poem] collected by Andrew Craigie | 'Tho' watched with fixed and steadfast gaze..' Possibly by Andrew Craigie. | c1820 |
DEP/CRD/2/2/4 | [Poem] collected by Andrew Craigie | 'Oh heaven under thee my only love..' Written on a scrap piece of paper on the reverse of which is the address of Dr Craigie, Nicholson Street. Possibly by Andrew Craigie. | c1820 |
DEP/CRD/2/2/5 | [Poem] collected by Andrew Craigie | 'On Monday morn as Will did adorn..' No corrections. Possibly by Andrew Craigie. | c1820 |
DEP/CRD/2/2/6 | [Poem] collected by Andrew Craigie | 'The passive look the wilder air...' Possibly by Andrew Craigie. | c1820 |