DEP/ABJ/4/2/20 | Letter from George Ledingham, Fredericton, New Brunswick [Canada] to John Abercrombie | He writes of the movements of the 34th Regiment to which he is attached, and family news. | 3 Dec 1834 |
DEP/BRE/3/2/79 | Letter from Lord Tweedsmuir, Ottawa, Canada to Edwin Bramwell | He writes concerning his nomination as chancellor of University of Edinburgh. With Bramwell's reply giving an account of the meeting of the General Council. | 15 Nov 1937 |
DEP/BRE/3/3/33 | Letter from Dr Edwin M Robertson, Edinburgh, [Scotland] to Edwin Bramwell | He acknowledges Bramwell's congratulations on his appointment as Chair of Obstetrics in Canada. | 9 Jun 1939 |
DEP/COJ/2/2/33 | 'List of Graduates at Edinburgh between 1705 and 1866 from Canada' by John Dixon Comrie | | 1930s |
DEP/COJ/3/68 | Letter to John Dixon Comrie from A Primrose, Harrogate, England | He thanks Comrie for his kindness during the visit of the Canadian Medical Association to Edinburgh, Scotland. | 12 Jul 1932 |
DEP/COJ/3/69 | Letter to John Dixon Comrie from [Randel?] Abbott, McGill University, Canada | He encloses a review of his 'History of Medicine in Quebec'. See COJ/2/3/2. | 10 Aug 1932 |
DEP/CRO/3/36 | Royaumont and V C Association of the Scottish Women's Hospitals News Letter No 6 Series 2 | From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton. Includes letters from the President and Chairman; Edinburgh luncheon and annual general meeting; London tea party; obituaries for Sister Lindsay, Lucie Carmichael, Paley and Rolt; reprint of an article 'A Hospital in France Chapter IV' by Collum, 1918; news from members; letter from Australia from Figgis; 'The Heroism of a French Priest' by Hilda Smeal - an account of the saving of France's art treasures; an account by Dr Henry of life in the Laurentian Hills in Canada; account of a trip to Holland [Netherlands] by Nicky; and statement of accounts. | Jan 1967 |
DEP/CRW/1/4 | Articles and lectures by William Stuart Craig, numbers 84-117 | Includes 'The Care of Child Life - A Commonwealth of Interests' University of Leeds Review, 1953; lecture to Huddersfield Medical Society on 'The Historical Background to Paediatric Care', 1953; address to the National Association of Nursery Matrons 'The Educational Value of the Nursery Services to the Parent', 1953; address to the ICAA 'The Handicapped Child as a Person', 1953; address 'Some Anomalies in the Neonate and their Treatment', Hull 1953; address 'The Child with Cerebral Palsy' to York Cerebral Palsy Parents' Association, 1953; 'Cerebral Palsy in Childhood' The Practitioner, 1953; 'Handicaps in Child Life' Social Service, 1953; address 'Voluntary Work and the Handicapped Children' to the National Association of Women's Clubs, 1953; 'Some Advances in Neo-Natal Care' lecture given at Leeds Post-graduate course reprinted from Midwives Chronicle and Nursing Notes, 1953; newspaper cutting of a letter by Craig to the Times Educational Supplement on handicapped children, 1953; contribution to the annual report of the School Medical Officer of the City of Leeds on paediatric services, 1954; 'Voluntary Work and the Handicapped Child' Child Care Quarterly Review, 1954; 'The Care of Child Life and Health' British Medical Journal, 1954; address 'The Social Aspects of Marasmus' to British Medical Association Glasgow, 1954; 'A Thousand Families in Newcastle upon Tyne - an approach to the study of health and illness in children' by James Spence, W S Walton, F J W Miller and S D M Court, 1954; 'Trends in the Nursing Care of the Sick Child' Nursing Mirror, 1954; 'Gargoylism in a twin brother and sister' Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1954; address 'The Needs of the Child under Five Years' to annual conference of Children's Officers, 1954; reviews by Craig of 'A Thousand Families in Newcastle upon Tyne - an approach to the study of health and illness in children'; review for the Royal Sanitary Institute of 'Deprived Children' by Hilda Lewis, 1954; 'Perspective in Paediatrics' Medical Journal of the South-West, 1956; address 'The Early Recognition of Some Important Symptoms in the Newborn' to Keighley and District Medical Society, 1955; address on 'Nutrition of Over-fives' to National Council of Children's Societies, 1955; 'Anoxia and Respiratory Failure' read at the British Medical Association meeting, Toronto, 1955; talk to the Marriage Guidance Council on health and development, 1955; 'The Rhesus Factor in General Practice' The Medical Press, 1955; 'Idiopathic Hypercalcaemia in an Infant' by I M P Dawson, W S Craig and F J C Perera, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1954; lecture 'Practical Points in the Nursing Care of the Newborn' to Royal College of Midwives postgraduate course, 1955; review of 'Social Security in the British Commonwealth - Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand' by Ronald Mendelsohn, 1955; summary of lecture 'Palpable Pyloric Tumours in the Early Days of Life' and published article from Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1955; and advertisement for 'Nursing Care of the Newly Born Infant', 1955. | 1953-1955 |
DEP/CRW/3/1/3 | C - correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by... | Letters from Admiral Sir Dick Caldwell; Dr I D Campbell; I M Campbell, Department of Humanity, University of Edinburgh [Scotland] on translation work; John Cash, Blood Transfusion Service; Ronald Christie, McGill University [Canada]; Michael Clarke-Williams; Dr Christopher Clayson; Thomas E Cone, Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Professor A R Currie; John Crofton; and Robert Cruickshank. | 21 Apr 1971-5 Feb 1975 |
DEP/CRW/3/1/6 | F - correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by... | Letters from James Farquhar enclosing 'College Connections Overseas'; Joan Ferguson, college librarian; T Ferguson; Lady Patricia Fisher; C Elaine Field enclosing 'The Contribution and Influence of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and its Fellows on Medical Trainees in Malaysia Singapore [British Malaysia] [China] and Hong Kong'; Professor John Forfar enclosing 'The Influence of the College in Singapore and Malaysia'; George Forwell, Scottish Home and Health Department; Dr Alfred White Franklin; and M Fransiszyn, Osler Library, McGill University [Canada]. | 10 Jun 1971-25 Feb 1974 |
DEP/CRW/3/1/8 | H - correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by... | Letters from T Hamilton, Australia; Barbara Harvey; Walter Henderson; Sir Ian Hill, Haile Sellassie University, Ethiopia; James Hingston, Canada; Lisabeth Holloway, Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia [United States of America]; and Dr R B Hunter, University of Birmingham [England]. | 11 Nov 1971-1 May 1975 |
DEP/CUH/1 | Letter from Rudyard Kipling to William Osler | From the collection of Harvey Cushing. The letter is written on the headed paper of Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex, England. It reads 'Dear Osler, Macphail [probably Sir Andrew Macphail] is coming to stay with us for a few days directly on his arrival from Canada. I'll do my best to send him up to the Athenaeum dinner in good and proper order though I fear that myself I shan't be able to come on the 13th, y [yours] sincerely Rudyard Kipling'. | 20 Nov 1909 |
DEP/DLS/5 | 'Fishing in Scotland, Canada and New Zealand' by Sir Leybourne Stanley Patrick Davidson | Includes black and white and colour photographs of Davidson on fishing trips with fish that he caught. Davidson has written an inscription to the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in the front flyleaf. Originally catalogued into the library catalogue. | 1976 |
DEP/EOS/2/24 | Edinburgh Obstetrical Society correspondence regarding papers | Envelope of letters (both typed and manuscript) thanking the society for diplomas of honorary fellowship from Mary Scharlieb, London, England; Dr A Couvelaine, Paris; Dr Webster, New Brunswick, Canada; and W Stroganoff, Leningrad (St Petersburg). Also membership form for the Official Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. | 5 Feb 1926-27 Mar 1926 |
DEP/EOS/2/34 | Letters thanking the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society for honorary fellowship | Letters from James Haig Ferguson, Edinburgh, Scotland; William Fordyce, Edinburgh, Scotland; Eric Essen-Möller, Lund, Sweden; W Blair Bell, Liverpool, England; W D Macfarlane, Glasgow, Scotland; Reuben Peterson, Michigan; WW Chipman, Montreal, Canada. With meeting of 14th January 1931. | 23 Jan 1931-7 Feb 1931 |
DEP/GOO/1/6 | Letter to Alexander Goodall from Gertrude Hulbert, 88 Victoria Street, Ottawa, Canada | Addressed to Goodall and James Slater at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. She writes for more information on disseminated sclerosis as her brother had been diagnosed with it. | 7 Jun 1931 |
DEP/GRO/1/15/2 | 'Report on a visit to the United States of America' by Ronald Girdwood | He visited the Department of Pharmacology, Yale University; Department of Haematology, Walter Reed Army Hospital; Haskins Laboratories, New York [United States of America]; Department of Nutrition, Lederle Laboratories; Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax [Canada]; Department of Medicine, University of Michigan [United States of America]; and Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital [United States of America]. | Jan 1957 |
DEP/GUT/4/38 | MD of Canada - Medical Newsmagazine | From the collection of Douglas Guthrie. Includes a pictorial article 'Scottish Scholars' on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Medicine which features photographs of Douglas Guthrie conducting a medico-historical tour of Edinburgh [Scotland]. | Sep 1961 |
DEP/HAH/15 | License to practice physic, surgergy and midwifery awarded to Hotchkin Haynes | Awarded by the Province of Canada and valid for Upper Canada. | 13 Jul 1852 |
DEP/KWS/1/1/8 | Papers of Samuel Kinnier Wilson concerning cases in the Pullen family | Rough notes on the case of EP [Edgar Pullen] and Miss Pullen; family history for Henry Edgar Pullen, 1906; illustrations of brain sections of Daisy Pullen, 1907; letters from Mary and H H Pullen on Dorothy and Edgar, July 1908-September 1910; letters from H H Pullen on his son Edgar's condition under the care or Dr Reymond in Switzerland, one with a letter from Edgar attached, November 1908-May 1910; handwritten notes on Edgar's health at school and the health of all six Pullen children; notes on Edgar's case; urine analysis for Edgar with a letter from H H Pullen on Edgar's post mortem; case history on Edgar with post mortem report; letters from Mary C Pullen concerning her son Arthur who is about to go to Canada and she wants Wilson to see him without it seeming to be a formal interview; and letter from her husband H H Pullen thanking Wilson and asking for a copy of his article on progressive lenticular degeneration. | Apr 1906-Feb 1912 |