DEP/ABJ/3/1 | Notes of John Abercrombie: United States of America | The volume is titled 'case book' on the spine but does not contain cases. Contains notes on various medical and anatomical subjects but also including astronomy, prisons, the will, popery, memory, climate, tea, electricity, taxation, temperature of the sea and information about America including the salary of the president and other officials. Partial index at the front. The volume is of the same format as ABJ/2/1 which implies it may date from the same period. | c1805 - c1810 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/241 | Letter from A Dewar, Dunfermline, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of an unnamed patient with a constitution impaired by a campaign in America. | 16 Feb 1825 |
DEP/ABJ/4/2/8 | Letter from Dudley Atkins, New York, United States of America to John Abercrombie | He gives a case study of chronic hydrocephalus in confirmation of Abercrombie's view on the inflammatory affliction of the cerebrum. A dissection was carried out by Dr Horner of Philadelphia University and written up in his work on pathological anatomy and Atkins gives details of it. Greenock ship letter. | 7 May 1831 |
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/4/2/16 | Letter from W B Sprague, Albany, England to John Abercrombie | He had read 'The Philosophy of Moral Feelings' and praises the fact that his work on intellectual powers has become a text book. He includes a work of his own and thanks Abercrombie for the autographs particularly that of Sir Walter Scott. | 1 May 1833 |
DEP/ABJ/4/2/19 | Letter from W B Sprague, Albany, England to John Abercrombie | He thanks Abercrombie for sending him more autographs and writes of a book he wrote, 'Letters to a daughter', being published without his permission in Glasgow and then re-published in Boston. | 30 Nov 1834 |
DEP/ABJ/4/2/21 | Letter from Alexr [Alexander] Stevens, New York, United States of America to John Abercrombie | He encloses a letter from B B Smith, the Bishop of Kentucky, which praises Abercrombie's work. He has found his moral works very useful amongst the medical students in Lexington who have 'a singular species of unbelief' and asks whether a cheaper edition may be available for free distribution. Liverpool ship letter. | 18 Jan 1835 |
DEP/ALW/2/24 | Postcard from Dr William Alister Alexander to his daughter Isobel | | 3 Jun 1959 |
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/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/5/1/139 | Untitled essay on America by William Pulteney Alison | Statistics on fever cases admitted into fever wards November 1835 - January 1836; birth and death rates in France, 1802; list of tables on the causes of death to be included in an unspecified work c1822; newspaper clipping giving the bills of mortality for 1821; and causes of death in Philadelphia, United States of America c1827. Draft copy. | 1820s - 1850s |
DEP/BRE/3/1/2 | Letter from G Alder Blumer, Utica New York, United States of America to Byrom Bramwell | The letter concerns American medical journalism and honorariums. He asks if Bramwell knowns Osler [Sir William Osler]. | 28 Oct 1884 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/7 | Letter from Sir William Osler, Baltimore, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for the reprint of the article on myasthenia gravis. | 9 Oct 1900 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/30 | Letter from Dr Walter Timme, New York, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for the reprint of the Bradshaw lecture on the muscular dystrophies, sympathetic system and endocrine glands. | 18 Jan 1926 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/32 | Letter from Dr William House, Portland, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for the reprint of the Bradshaw lecture on the muscular dystrophies, sympathetic system and endocrine glands. | 22 May 1926 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/33 | Letter from Dr J Alder Blumer, Providence, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for the reprints and talks of his early years in Edinburgh, Scotland. | 29 Jul 1926 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/48 | Letter from Dr William B Peck, Freeport, Illinois, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He invites Bramwell to be guest of honour at the Inter-State Post Graduate Assembly of North America. | 11 Feb 1927 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/56 | Letter from Dr J Ralph Jacoby, New York, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for the reprints and looks back at the days in Frankfurt, Germany working under Weigert. | 4 May 1928 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/57 | Letter from Professor Morton Prince, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for the reprints. | 7 May 1928 |
DEP/BRE/3/1/58 | Letter from George Eusterman, Rochester, United States of America to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for the reprints. | 8 May 1928 |