DEP/ABJ/4/1/276 | Letter from Thomas Gibson, Rothesay, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of John Moodie, the son of Reverend Mr Moodie, with 'scrophulous habit'. Four other family members have already died of the condition. Mr Sym had previously corresponded with Abercrombie about the family. | 20 May 1825 |
DEP/AUA/1 | Student notes of Adam Austin from clinical lectures of John Rutherford at the Royal Infirmary of... | The flyleaf is signed 'Dr Adam Austin 5th July 1759' and contains a note of a book lent in 1755. The volume starts with lists of books in folio, quarto and octavo, with place and year of publication and in some cases cost, and a list of manuscripts. The lists may be Austin's library. The library catalogue is followed by 'Rules to be observed by the Apprentices in regard to the Shop and Patients' which relate to the operation of a pharmacy, Mr Smyth and Dr Austin being named as those issuing prescriptions.
Dr Rutherford's clinical lectures start after the rules and give case studies for three patients, giving the patient's name, complaint and treatment. At p16 there is a new heading 'Clinical Lectures delivered in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by John Rutherford Professor of the Practice of Physic in the College of Edinburgh begun 1749' although this might indicate the year Rutherford started lecturing rather than when the notes were taken. These also include case studies. The dating here is unclear although some of the case studies include dates of admission to the Royal Infirmary. From p192 a letter from John Pringle has been copied into the volume on the case of Mrs Dowal, giving prescriptions and suggested treatment. On p206 an item from 'The Pennsylvanian Gazette' has been copied into the volume on inoculation against small pox. After this are other letters from James Bales (1758) and James Aikman (1762) interspersed with further case studies. At the end is a case of 'gravelish complaints' which includes a page headed 'Dr Austin's opinion in regard to Mr Elliot's Case'. There is an index at the rear giving the patient's name and condition.
There are also lectures on specific subjects rather than case studies. These are: inoculation, epilepsy, scrophula, venereal disease, scurvy, headache, ague and measles.
Throughout the volume it is not clear whether the first person used is Rutherford or Austin. Austin had started working at the Royal Infirmary by at least 1763 although many of the cases do pre-date that. There is also more than one hand used in the volume so authorship of specific parts is not clear. | 4 Jan 1753 - 7 Apr 1765 |
DEP/AWP/5/1/74 | 'Outline of an Inquiry into the Pathology of Scrofulous Diseases with a view to their... | Note on title page 'Read June 5 1822 and August 6 1823' implies the paper may have been given at a society. Draft copy. | 1822 |
DEP/AWP/5/1/115 | 'Subjects for Inquiry' by William Pulteney Alison | Two pieces headed 'Subjects for Inquiry' one specifically relating to blood. Another piece is headed 'Subjects for Papers' and relates to blood in scrofulous and inflammation. Draft copy. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/203 | Untitled essays on tuberculosis, phthisis and scrophula [scrofula] by William Pulteney Alison | Draft copies. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/1/222 | Notes for lectures by William Pulteney Alison | Alison has given references and rough notes under the following headings (where they can be deciphered): 'On provision for erect posture'; 'Order for lectures on inflammation'; 'Notes for Clinical Lectures'; 'Of Phthisis - General Outlines'; 'Diseases in which the blood is manifestly altered'; 'Essential Peculiarities of Scrofulus Habits'; 'Essential Peculiarities of Tubercles'; and 'Argument against the excessive punishment of the sin of incontinence in women'. From the reverse he has used the book to note doctors' addresses; anatomical illustrations giving plate numbers in an unspecified work; and notes on visits to hospitals in London in 1828. | c1828 |
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/COJ/2/1/7 | [Untitled set of lecture notes] of John Dixon Comrie | Sections titled 'Michael Scot 1180-1230 (ca)'; 'Medicine in the 13th and 14th Centuries - Monkish medicine (St Gall), Scrofula, Montpellier'; 'Medicine at Florence in the 15th Century - Leonardo da Vinci, Benvenuti Cellini, Guilds'; 'Dutch Universities' [Netherlands] outline notes on16th-18th centuries; and 'Vesalius - Servetus - Paracelsus'. | 1930s |
DEP/CUL/1/2/173 | Letter from Chas [Charles] Broughton, London, England to William Cullen | Further to the success of his ointment. He lists the doctors who have 'applyed to me to take charge of their scrofulous friends' including Sir John Pringle. | 18 Aug 1774 |
DEP/CUL/2/1/4 | William Cullen's clinical lectures | The lectures cover a number of diseases and give a description, prognosis and cure and includes case notes. Subjects covered and patients' names: palsy - Jean Cockburn; rheumatism - Barbara Campble [Campbell], Alexander Heron, Isobel McArthur, William Bell, Thomas Hamilton, Margaret Stewart; hysteric disease - Janet Seton, Mary Fraser; melancholia - James Allan; scrophula - William Hay; jaundice - Katherine Hamilton; dysentery - Andrew Robertson, John Madoe; gonorrhea virulenta, gleet and pox - Donald McRaw, James Davidson, Grant Murdoch Kellock; intermittent fever - Laurence Barr, William Jordan, James Garrow (anasarca after intermittent), Mary McDonald; continued fevers - Jean Davidson, Anne Ogilvie. From p335 the volume includes 'Observations on the Symptoms of Continued Fevers by Dr Whyte' with case notes for James McNab. | 5 Jan 1764-16 Jan 1764 |
DEP/DOJ/1 | Sir John Pringle's Manuscript Medical Annotations by Jessie Dobson | In the first section, under each heading, Dobson gives examples of what Pringle had written on the subject and the folio numbers for the first three volumes only. She has not retained the original spellings. The subjects included are: dysentery; fevers; phthisis pulmonalis and haemoptoe; hectic heats, hectic and slow fevers; ulcerous sort throat; rheumatism; smallpox; sprains, luxations and contusions; diseases of the stomach and intestines; diarrhoea and lienteria; the use of mercury and mercurials; stone and gravel; haemorrhages; deafness and other diseases of the ear; ophthalmia; burns; of the nature of fire and in particular the heat of the human body; apoplexy and palsy; epilepsy; volatile and foetid antispasmodics; mania melancholia; diseases of the heart and circulation; erysipelas; cholera; tetanus, opisthotonos, emprosthotonos, locking of the jaws; lepra [leprosy], scurf, tetters and other foulnesses of the skin; dropsy; hydrocephalus; worms; ani morbi; hepatitis, jaundice, gallstones; diseases of breeding and lying-in women; diseases of infants and children; scrofula; remedies [in which she summarises a number of Pringle's sections on treatments]; and diseases of different climates.
In the second section she includes all the notes Pringle included by William and John Hunter from all ten volumes. At the end she includes biographical notes on John Freind, Richard Huck Saunders, Sir Edward Hulse, John Senac, Sir Robert Walpole and Robert Whytt.
There is a letter at the front of the file from Jessie Dobson to the Honorary Librarian of the College dated 25th April 1969. In it she explains the work she did on the first three volumes of Pringle's Medical Annotations with a further selection of any comments made by William and John Hunter from the later volumes. She also donates a copy of her notes to the library. A reply from the College Librarian is also included. | 1969 |
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/HAJ/1/92 | Letter to James Hamilton from James Woodforde, Castle Cary | He thanks Hamilton for his pamphlet and assures him that he 'readily became a convert to your principles'. He describes the state of medicine before Hamilton wrote his book. He mentions his own published observations on the treatment of dyspepsia and writes of phthisis, scrophula and dropsy. | 1 Apr 1822 |
DEP/LAT/1/40 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Degenerations of Nerve-centres - Strumous Diathesis - Goitre and... | In the title the subjects tuberculosis and scrofulosis were crossed out. Contains 'Degeneration of the cerebro-spinal system', c1862; 'Goitre' with pasted cutting on the affect of climate on goitre; and 'Bronchocele'. Also includes 'Goitre and Cretinism in the Bari Dooab, Gurdaspur' from the Indian Medical Gazette, 1873; 'Cretinism'; table of dental extractions, 1864; and small cuttings on cause of goitre, congenital bronchocele, and, in French, epidémie de thyroïdite dans la garnison de Saint-Etienne (epidemic of thyroiditis in the Saint-Etienne garrison). | c1862-1873 |
DEP/LAT/1/80 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Scrofulosis - Tuberculosis | Contains 'Characteristics of Strumous Diathesis'; 'Diagnosis of Scrofula and Scrofulous Diathesis and Treatment of Tuberculosis' with a cutting on administering cod liver oil; 'Etiology and Course of Scrofulosis and Tuberculosis'; and 'Strumous and Tubercular Diseases'. Also includes 'Thermal value of food' by William H O'Leary, 1868; 'The nature and affinities of tubercle' by Dr Reginald Southey, 1867; and small cuttings on tuberculosis in French etc. | 1850s-1870s |
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/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/3/1 | Notebook of Sir John Pringle | These are notes and references to his 'Medical Annotations'. Some entries are just references to the relevant volume and page of 'Medical Annotations' but others give additional information. Arranged into sections headed: General Rules for Health; ague; ancylosis; asthma; apoplexy and recent palsy; belly hard in children; blood (spitting of); burns; breath offensive; a bruise; cachexy; cancer; childblains and kibes; chincough or hooping cough; colds; cholera morbus; chopt lips; colic in children; colic bilious; colic habitual; colic (painter's); clyster; consumption; contusions, luxations; convulsions; corns; costiveness; cough from a cold; cough with inflammation of the lungs; violent coughing; cramp of the legs; a cut; deafness; diabetes; diarrhoea; dropsy; dysentery; ear ach; ears itching; eyes (inflammed); eruptions in children; eyes (specks); expectoration to promote in pulmonary inflammations; excoriation to prevent when threatened by constant lying in bed; face foul; falling sickness or epilepsy; fevers in general; flatulence with low spirits; fits hysteric or convulsive; flux white; fundament, itching of; ganglion; gout; gravel; gums spungy and bleeding; head-ach; heat of the blood and thirst; hiccup; hoarseness; jaundice; hypochondriasis; ileus; inquietude, restlesssness or fidgets; itch; leprosy; lameness; leanness; weakness of the legs in children; leprosy or impetigo; lecucophley matia; lethargy; lock jaw; looseness; lumbago; lunacy; menses obstructed; measles; menstruation; coagulated milk; mouth sore or excoriated; nerve wounded; nerves, weakness of; pain (inflammatory); palms of the hand hot; palpitations nervous; palsy of the arms; piles or haemorrhoids; pleurisy and peripneumony; quinsy; rupture; scald head; sciatica; scirrhouse glands; scurvy (marine); sea sickness; shin rubbed off; small pox; sores; sprains; stomach pain from an acid; stone in the bladder; strictures; swelled legs;swelled face from a rheum upon the teeth; swelling (white); toothach; thirst; tenesmus; thrush; torpor or numbness of the limbs; vertigo; ulcer; vomica; vomiting; urine (bloody); warts; watery gripes (in infants); whites; worms; contused worms; and wounds of the tendons. There is a supplement in the rear with additional headings and continuations from elsewhere in the book: stiff joynt or ancylosis; rheumatism; breeding sickness; fundament falling down; hysterics and female spasmodics; scrophula; sprains; and wax emulsion. There are also a number of other headings throughout for which no notes were entered. | c1773 |
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 |