DEP/ABJ/1/4 | Casebook of John Abercrombie: [Medical notes] | The volume starts with notes on fever, preparations of mercury, dyspepsia, worms, syncope, pain of stomach and bowels, preparations of antimony, paralysis, spleen, experiments on saliva, serum etc and sea scurvy. It then covers each part of the body covering anatomy and diseases. Then approximately half way through are 'Outlines of Materia Medica' followed by sections on diet, poisons and phlegmasia, fevers, haemorrhages, profluvia, spasmi all with a comparative tables of different types. Partial index at the front of the volume. Dated from a reference on page 1 to a case seen in November 1802. | c1803 |
DEP/AWP/5/1/29 | 'Experiments and Observations on the Different modes in which death is produced by vegetable... | | 1820s-1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/30 | 'Facts from Dr Ferguson's Paper on marsh poisons' by William Pulteney Alison | Includes notes on malaria and two other items: 'Notes from Dr Ferguson's Recapitulation of Reports made to the Commander of Forces on the Midward and Leeward Island' and 'Note from Dr Ferguson on the Cachectic Hydropie state'. | c1819 |
DEP/AWP/5/1/56 | 'Of Death by Poison' by William Pulteney Alison | Dated from a reference opposite p30. Draft copy. | c1819 |
DEP/AWP/5/1/57 | 'Of Antimony, Copper and Lead' by William Pulteney Alison | Discusses their properties as poisons. Draft copy. | 1820s-1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/58 | 'Of Arsenic' by William Pulteney Alison | Includes insert on a poisoning case by arsenic in Savoy. Draft copy. | 1820s-1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/59 | 'Of Vegetable Poisons' by William Pulteney Alison | Draft copy. | 1820s-1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/61 | 'Of Saline Poisons' by William Pulteney Alison | Draft copy. | 1820s-1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/191 | Untitled essays on poisons by William Pulteney Alison | Draft copies. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/223 | Notes for lectures by William Pulteney Alison | Alison has given notes under the following headings (where they can be deciphered): Additions to Introductory Lectures; Additions to Introductory Physiological Lectures; Respiration; Animal Heat; Addition to Lectures on Fundamental Laws of Belief; On ganglionic nerves; Introductory to Pathology; Heads of Lectures on Scrofula; Reasons for thinking the effect of cold and other causes of disease; Organic Diseases; Reasons for thinking that a morbid poison acts as a sedative in fever; notes on abdominal [diseases] including dysentery; on pleuristic effusions; Organic disease of heart and great vessels; and Contagion. It ends with a list of books to be consulted. Dated from reference on the last page. | c1829 |
DEP/AWP/5/2/86 | [V] - [Notes on blood and poisons by William Pulteney Alison] | | 1850s |
DEP/BRE/3/1/83 | Letter from Dr P H J Turton, Heanor to Edwin Bramwell | He writes concerning Bramwell's article on lead poisoning. | 19 Jul 1931 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/85 | Letter from Sir William Hale White, London, England to Edwin Bramwell | He writes concerning Bramwell's article on lead poisoning. | 18 Jul 1931 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/86 | Letter from Dr Leo Spira, London, England to Edwin Bramwell | He writes concerning Bramwell's article on lead poisoning. | 20 Jul 1931 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/87 | Letter from Sir Thomas Oliver, Newcastle, England to Edwin Bramwell | He writes with his condolences on the death of Sir Byrom Bramwell and on Bramwell's article on lead poisoning. | 28 Jul 1931 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/88 | Letter from Dr McKerrow, Workington, England to Edwin Bramwell | He writes concerning Bramwell's article on lead poisoning and thinks he might suffer himself. | 20 Oct 1931 |
DEP/CHR | Collection of Sir Robert Christison | | 1816 - 1817 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/2509 | Letter from John Haygarth, Chester to William Cullen | Covering letter for a paper he has had printed for distribution on how far ablation may treat the effects of poison. He also thanks Cullen for his 'Treatise on the Materia Medica', 'it has received the general approbation of all our brethren'. Haygarth was a student of Cullen's. | 14 Jan 1790 |
DEP/CUL/2/1/3 | William Cullen's lectures on materia medica, volume 2 | The sections are: 'Medical Virtues of Sulphur and Alcohol', 'External Medicines', 'Specific Purgatives', 'Of Drinks', 'Of the More Universal Remedies', 'Evacuations', 'Nutrients', 'Therapeutics Stimulants', 'Sedatives', 'Sedantia', 'The Means of Preventing or Curing Diseases', 'Methodus Medendi [in Latin and English]', 'Therapeutice [various forms - astringentia, emollientia, sedantia, blood letting etc]', 'Astringents', 'Corrosives', 'Hygiene', 'P L [the only dated section], 'Of Particular Aliments', 'Antacida', 'Blood letting', 'Emetics', 'Purgatives', 'Emmenagoga [Emmenagogue]', 'Of Poisons' and 'Calculus'. At the rear of the volume are lists of drugs. Two inserted notes in the volume which may not be contemporary read 'Do not these correspond with the notes in the printed copy of the syllabus?' and 'Notes of Therapeutical Lectures for an entire session'. It should be noted that not all the sections have obvious headings and some may have been missed. Because the volume consists of separate note the date range will almost certainly be wider than the one dated item. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'. | 20 Jan 1764 |
DEP/CUL/2/1/7 | William Cullen's lectures on pathology, volume 1 | Lectures I-IV. After this there are no further divisions by lecture. Each section is headed 'Pathology' but below some of these are rough sub-headings: 'State of the Moving Extremities or Muscular Fibres', 'Sensibility Considered Next of Irritability', 'Diseases of the Fluids', 'Atmosphere', 'Diet', 'Poisons', 'Of Symptoms and their proximate causes', and 'Pulse'. Undated. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'. | c1765 |