DEP/CUL/5/5 | 'First Lines on the Practice of Physic for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh... | Part II - 'Of Neuroses or Nervous Diseases' contains: Book I 'Of Comata' consisting of two chapters: 'Of Apoplexy' and 'Of Palsy'; Book II 'Of Adynamiae or Diseases consisting in a weakness or loss of motion in either the vital or natural functions' consisting of three chapters: 'Of Syncope or fainting', 'Of dyspepsia or indigestion' and 'Of hypochondriasis or the hypochondriac affection commonly called Vapours or Low Spirits'; Book III - 'Of Spasmodic Affections' consisting of 14 chapters: 'Of tetanus', 'Of Epilepsy', 'Of the chorea or danse of St Vitus', 'Of the spasmodic affections of the vital functions', 'Of the Palpitation of the Heart', 'Of Dyspnoea or difficult breathing', 'Of Asthma', 'Of the chincough or hooping cough', 'Of the spasmodic affections of the natural functions', 'Of the pyrosis or what is named in Scotland the water brash', 'Of the colic', 'Of the cholera', 'Of diarrhoea or looseness', 'Of the diabetes', 'Of hysteria or the hysteric disease' and 'Of canine madness and hydrophobia'. No annotations. | 1783 |
DEP/HAJ/1/5 | Letter to James Hamilton from Sarah Cleghorn and John Barclay, Kilbryde [Kilbride] | She is unable to write and Dr Barclay writes for her. She writes that Sir James and Lady Campbell send their regards and would like him to visit. Dr Barclay also writes in the letter concerning Hamilton's approach to St Vitus dance. He tells an amusing anecdote about how one man stopped the merriment at a wedding by putting salap in the broth. | 3 Oct 1805 |
DEP/HAJ/1/87 | Remarks on some passages in Sir Gilbert Blane's 'Elements of Medical Logic' | This is the tract that James Hamilton referred to in his letter to Blane at HAJ/1/86. He gives a detailed comparison of his opinion compared with Blane's on the subject of the treatment of typhus fever, scarlatina and chorea sancti viti. It is interleaved with a printed letter to James Russell. | 1821 |
DEP/HAJ/1/100 | Case note of Jean Kemp from the collection of James Hamilton | Case of Jean Kemp, aged 9, suffering from chorea sancti viti [rheumatic chorea or St Vitus' Dance] at the Royal Infirmary. An account of her treatment and recovery from 23rd February to 2nd May. Signed by James Hamilton. | 2 May 1823 |