DEP/ABJ/2/6 | Casebooks of John Abercrombie | Two casebooks one with a cover labelled 'Journal No 2 Sadrass April 15th 1808'. As they are of identical format, the untitled casebook is presumably Journal No 1. Each entry gives the patient's name, age and case history and each volume has an index at the front with the patient's name and disease. When a patient died post mortem details are also given. The first entry in Journal No 2 describes the patient as having been admitted to the regimental hospital at Wallajahbad which indicates that the Sadrass in the title is the town of Sadras on the Coromandel coast of India and the location of a fort. The author of these casebooks is not known, as Abercrombie never worked in India. | 12 Apr 1808 - 3 May 1808 |
DEP/ABJ/3/8 | Notes of John Abercrombie: [Notes from works by Coindet, Malcolmson and Benoiston de Chateauneuf] | At the front of the volume are notes from Jean-François Coindet 'Memoire sur l'hygiene du condamnes detenus dans la prison penitentiaire de Geneve' c1836; John Grant Malcolmson 'Letter to Sir H Hardinge on the effects of solitary confinement on the health of soldiers in India, 1837'; Louis-François Benoiston de Chateauneuf 'Du system penitentiaire', 1844. At the back of the volume are notes on the regime in an institution for boys with notes on the health of each boy and, at the middle of the book, a report on a penitentiary in Perth, Scotland. | c1844 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/273 | Letter from Willm [William] Gibson, Maule's Den by Brechin, Scotland to John Abercrombie | Case of Captain Thomas Binny with 'the usual symptoms' of fever having spent his life in India. | 18 May 1825 |
DEP/ABJ/4/1/292 | Correspondence of John Abercrombie: case note | Case of Miss Burns, an Anglo-Indian, 12, with bouts of fainting in the mornings. Tumour in the brain written on the reverse. Correspondent unknown. | Jun 1828 |
DEP/ABJ/4/2/3 | Letter from J Mellis, 1 Mission Row, Calcutta [Kolkata] [India] to John Abercrombie | He jokes that he is ill with 'graphophobia' but his friend Captain Sanderson going to 'Auld Reekie' has encouraged him to write. He has been appointed a Presidency Surgeon and surgeon to the [H C?] marine. He was previously senior surgeon to the artillery and two of his assistants, Dr Tod and Dr James Johnstone were Abercrombie's students. He has been collecting cases of the local methods of treatment of diseases and dissections for possible publication. | 29 Jan 1823 |
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/4/2/26 | Letter from Jno [John] Abercrombie, Kensington, London, England | Letters written to him from India have gone to Abercrombie (possibly his uncle) in error. As Abercrombie had asked to be kept informed of the correspondence John Abercrombie copies out letters to him from J H Davis, who had enclosed a letter from Thomas Abercrombie, and his reply. Thomas Abercrombie was claiming to be John Abercrombie's son but in his reply Abercrombie writes that he has evidence from the War Office of the movements of his regiment in India which refute his claims. | 9 Jan 1836 |
DEP/ABJ/4/4/1 | Letter from John MacWhirter, 4 Ainslie Place, [Edinburgh, Scotland] to John Abercrombie relating... | He writes a covering letter for the 'brief hints' he gave to Doctors Allison, Christison and Bell upon which the report of the Sub Committee of the Board of Health on Spasmodic Cholera was framed. The information is on the treatment he adopted in Calcutta [India] from 1817-1822 when he was Apothecary General to the Honourable Company on the Bengal Presidency. He lists the drugs he used and the how they were administered. | 17 Nov 1831 |
DEP/ALW/1/12 | Speeches by Dr William Alister Alexander | These were originally in an envelope labelled 'Speeches etc'. Includes an article 'A Man of Parts' on Heriot Row and Abercromby [Abercrombie] Place, Edinburgh, Scotland; 'Principals I have Known' on John Watson's College with speeches given at a meeting of the Association; notes for an article on 18 Charlotte Square; speech to fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1968; speech to the AGM of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Association, 1967; farewell to Dr and Mrs Pester, 1968; speech as President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society; speech on the initiation of a fund for the erection of a Post-Graduate School at Surgeon's Hall as a memorial to Lord [Joseph] Lister; 'Reflections on Medical Education and Other Matters'; speech on the opening of the Davidson Clinic's new premises; speech possibly to the Pharmaceutical Society in which he commends the History of Pharmacy Committee, 1968; speeches to the Aesculapians, 1957-1967; list of presidents of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh 1821-1937; medical report on admissions to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, c1930; synopses of papers given at the BMA [British Medical Association]/CMA Joint Annual Scientific Meeting including Alexander's on notable members of the Royal Medical Society, 1959; article on ophthalmology by H M Traquair with a letter from him to Alexander and Alexander's notes on notable members of the Royal Medical Society, 1943; speech at the retiral of Eleanor Hamilton from the Royal Infirmary, 1970; speech to the Blood Transfusion centre, 1962, 1968; versions of speeches given on the occasion of the visit of Queen Elizabeth; speech in support of William Clayson as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1966; speech to welcome the High Commissioner for India Mrs Vijaya Pandit, c1961; speeches to the Royal Medical Society, 1965 with article on some notable members; speech to the Library Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1959; speech on the end of his term as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1955; letter from Harry Sinderson, 1954; speech as convenor of the committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh to consider the future of 8 Queen Street; memoir of Alexander's student days; foreword to a history of the Davidson Clinic; Scottish Society of the History of Medicine chronology of the Armstrongs; speech to the Harveian Society; letter from Clarence House declining honorary membership of the Edinburgh Caithness Association, 1956; and a speech to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh. | c1930-1968 |
DEP/ALW/2/7 | Letter from Kathleen Steel, Poona to William Alister Alexander | She gives family news. Steel was Alexander's god-daughter. Undated. | 1930s |
DEP/ALW/2/9 | Letter from W F J M Thom to Dr William Alister Alexander | Copy of a letter describing his experiences in India. | 22 Apr 1942 |
DEP/ALW/2/20 | Letter from W J Dempster to Dr William Alister Alexander | He writes of his experiences in India and the lack of medical work he has been given as a medical officer with the RAF. | 8 Dec 1944 |
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/ANO/24 | Volume on 'Secretion of Bile', author unknown | The volume contains a text on the secretion of bile which is written on every alternate page. It has the sub-headings 'Uses of the Bile', 'Explanation of bilious diseases in India', 'Remitt [remittent] fever', 'Bilious flux', 'Hepatitis' and 'Suppuration of the Liver'. The unused pages have been used for other work. From the front: on the flyleaf is a poem about doctors by John Owen quoted by Joseph Lickbarrow, surgeon, 1670; a draft letter to an unnamed addressee asking for a professional reconciliation; a passage from a literary work incorporating a ballad about Duncan Gerr quoted in the 'new edition' of Rob Roy by Walter Scott and a poem titled 'The Withered Tree'; a draft letter of introduction for John Lawrence and signed by R Turner, a recent medical graduate and addressed to his lecturer; draft letter to a doctor objecting to his interference with his patient, John Grant, by recommending leeches; draft article 'On the evidence to be found in the writings of Shakespeare of his knowledge of medicine'; draft article on the lack of respect shown to medicine by authors such as Walter Scott and James Boswell; and a draft article on the use of tobacco.
From the rear: a literary work with another copy of the poem 'The Withered Tree'; 'Notes on Comparative Anatomy from Sir Charles Bell's (Bridgewater) Treatise on 'The Hand' (published 1833) with a diagram of the arm; and a draft response to an essayist with the theory that plays and novels are the same thing. Includes loose inserts: notes on the novel as a literary form; small slip with the words 'Lambeth Street incendiarism'; and notes on a torn copy of the title page of 'Appendix to the catalogue of the Aberdeen Public Library' (published 1838). | c1838 |
DEP/AWP/7/3/4 | Letter from Dr James Gibson, Sunderland, England to Dr Gregory [secretary of the Medical... | From the collection of William Pulteney Alison. He discusses various treatments for cholera. Enclosed is a case study in a different hand which describes the difference between the cholera of India and that of Sunderland, England. | 21 Nov 1831 |
DEP/BAD/1/1 | Official Reports Made To Government by Drs Russell and Barry on the Disease called Cholera... | The report, by William Russell and David Barry, includes: report of the Board of Health on cholera in India; extract of report on cholera in Russia by Dr Keir; order in council passed by the Privy Council to prevent the spread of cholera; letters and reports by Dr Russell and Dr Barry on cholera in Russia; translation of the protocol drawn up on the first case of cholera in St Petersburg, Russia; letters from consuls at Dantzig, Cronstadt and Berlin [Germany]. | 1832 |
DEP/BAD/2/43 | [Paper on materia Indica], unknown author | From the collection of Sir David Barry. The article is a review of a book by Whitelaw Ainslie 'late of the medical staff of Southern India' called 'Materia Indica'. Pages 3-4 missing. | c1826 |
DEP/BGW/7 | Letter from George William Balfour to his father, Reverend Lewis Balfour | Written from Vienna, Austria-Hungary [Austria]. He writes of his efforts to find work and the possibility of going to India; the weather; the squares of Vienna [Austria]; the rivers Wien and Danube; and his progress with German. | 16 Dec 1845 |
DEP/CAJ/2/2 | Diary of James Cameron | The diary was originally inside the front cover of the Knights Bachelor Supplement at CAJ/2/3. The diary gives an account of his trip to India and Pakistan [Bangladesh]. It includes diary entries; names and addresses, notes on accommodation etc; case notes from a symposium on diseases of the liver at the Tropical Medicine School, 24th December 1963. | Dec 1963-Jan 1964 |
DEP/CAJ/2/7 | Newspaper cuttings on James Cameron's trip to India and Pakistan [Bangladesh] | Cuttings from the Time of India, Pakistan Times and Dawn on Cameron's examination of Mr Nehru; on the part Cameron played in establishing the Army Medical Centre at Poona, India; photograph of a visit to the Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore [India]; two reports on Cameron chairing the Second Biennial Clinical Conference, one with a photograph, and visiting Dow Medical College in Pakistan, with photograph; interview in Dacca, Pakistan in which Cameron calls for the autonomy of medical teaching institutions; and a photograph of a visit to Calcutta [Kolkata] [India]. | Dec 1963 |