DEP/ABJ/4/2/10 | Letter from G F D Evans, 21 Lothian Street, Scotland to John Abercrombie | He sends Abercrombie two stories of 'spectral illusions' from America and India. Originally addressed to Dr [William Pulteney] Alison with a note introducing Evans which may also be by Alison. | 13 Dec 1831 |
DEP/ABJ/4/2/28 | Letter from L Cumming, Hope Street, addressed to Reverend Dr Cormack | From the collection of John Abercrombie. He recounts a story from 100 years ago of a ghost appearing to a man on a ship. No year given but 1836 part of the watermark. | 30 May [1836] |
DEP/AWP/5/2/69 | [S] - [On spectral illusions by William Pulteney Alison] | Includes extract from Sir B Brodie. Dated from p1 of a second section. | 1859 |
DEP/AWP/5/2/71 | [S] - [Notes on various subjects by William Pulteney Alison] | Includes astronomy, consciousness, nervous system, animal economy, physiology and spectral illusions. | 1850s |
DEP/AWP/5/2/76 | [T] - [Notes on various subjects by William Pulteney Alison] | Includes clairvoyance, sensation, indications of divine intentions and animal economy. | 1850s |
DEP/LAT/1/50 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Melancholias - Dysphoria - Hypochon [Hyponchondria?] | Contains 'Phrenalgia [?] or Melancholia' including hereditary predisposition, 1863; 'Special Forms of Lypethymia' with extract from a textbook on the subject and also including hypochondria, 1863; and 'Family and Domestic Melancholia' with pasted cuttings on relevant murder cases, 1864. Also includes case notes on delusions, delirium tremens, melancholia 1864-1875; letters from J Crown [?], Edinburgh, B Richardson, Shrewsbury, James Murray, Galashiels, M A R, Montrose and P C Stuart, Edinburgh on masturbation and nocturnal emissions, 1858-1876; letters from William Standing, Stirling on his whole family having rabies, 1866; unsigned letter from someone inhabited by evil spirits, 1869; 'Capsicum in Delirium Tremens' by Dr Lyons, 1866; 'Melancholia and Tumours cured by removing a tumour, 1856; and small cuttings on Mr Speke's disappearance and similar cases. | 1858-1876 |
DEP/MOR/4/111 | Illustration captioned 'M S P aged 22 Erotomania Bethlem 2 months insane' | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 29 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'M. S. P. aged 22, an unmarried female, educated as a governess — had an hereditary tendency to insanity.
She was naturally of a very chaste and modest disposition; her Catamenia had been obstructed for six months, about three years ago, and she became insane. Her insanity assumed a religious character, she conceived herself to be 'the Virgin Mary; that she had received spiritual birth on a certain day, for she then felt joy by the Holy Ghost,' she was quite cured after the disease had existed about a year, and she remained well for two years and a half.
She now labours under a second attack, and has been two months insane ; she expresses her love for the clergyman whom she has attended ; her eyes are red and brilliant, her face is flushed and her ideas are amatory, for she expresses a wish to be kissed — talks of being pregnant with something holy, and of marriage; but she does not farther transgress the bounds of decency in looks or discourse.' | c1840 |
DEP/SMS/2/45 | Subject file of Sydney Smith: Suggestion and Paranormal Healing | Includes 'Some Aspects of Paranormal Healing' by Louis Rose, British Medical Journal, 1954; 'A Difficult Wart Treated by Suggestion', British Medical Journal, 1952; 'Hypnotism', British Medical Journal, 1955; and 'Medical Use of Hypnotism', British Medical Journal, 1955. | 1952-1955 |
DEP/TAH/4/5 | Subject file of Haldane Tait: Doctors in other Spheres of Activity | Some of these papers were in an envelope with this title and the rest were loose in the box but are on the same subject. In envelope: article on Henry Lamb, war artist and doctor; John Locke; Heinrich Olbers; Mohamed Forna; Henry Tonks; doctors as diarists; Thomas Beach; Dr Francis Buckland; Robert Bridges, poet laureate and doctor; John Wolcot; Dr Michael Bialoguski, conductor; Dr John Paris; Claude Bernard; George Crabbe; Dr Alfred Smee; Sir James Murray.
Loose in box: Professor Aslan's wonder drug; Bodkin Adams; Jonas Salk; 'Three Scots in the Service of the Czars' by John Wilson; Dr Gideon Mantell and palaeontology; Gerard de Nerval; case of Adelaide Bartlett; Dr Guillotin; Ambroise Paré; Louis XVI's lazy thyroid; affect of religion on doctors; Rodrigo Lopez; Timothy Bright; Buchan's Domestic Medicine; David Marsh doctor and golfer; doctors in fiction; singing doctors; death of Charles II; W G Grace, doctor and cricketer; the Apothecaries; John Keats' medical career; medical antiquities of Heinz Norden; Sir Charles Scarburgh; P G Wodehouse and medicine; doctors and poetry; Malthus; George James Guthrie; Oliver St John Gogarty; medical director of Pinewood Studios; Dr Janvier Black; Dr John Henry Salter; Dr Robert Whytt; Georges Clemenceau; Thomas Hardy's doctor; article on Clemenceau, Sun Yat Sen and Banda and their politics; A Medical Tourist's Guide; James Bridie; Burke and Hare; doctors as prime ministers; medical stamps; doctors as writers; Dr Leonard Hussey; Dr Henry Stephens; doctors in law; C B Heald; doctors as murderers; Sir Roger Ormrod; doctors as politicians - Dr Dickson Mabon, Dr Alan Glyn, John Cronin, Gerard Vaughan, David Owen; imprisoned doctors - Dr Lumu, Raymond Hoffenberg, Howard Levy; Francois Rabelais; Peter Roget; Professor Murdo Elder, Hammersmith Hospital; John Moore surgeon; doctors in the House of Lords; David Ennals; Dr Maurice Miller; Bayer Philharmonic Orchestra; 16th century in dermatology; London Medical Orchestra; music and medicine; Jean-Paul Marat; Tobias Smollet; motoring medicine; Jonathan Miller; doctors in the church; medical aspects of the death of Christ; doctors on the stage; Richard Gordon; railway doctor; medical ghost writers; Dr Alexander Bourne; Walter Hawden; operatic doctors; John Tinney's Compendium Anatomicum and its Publishers by K F Russell. | 1966-1979 |