DEP/AWP/5/5/1 | Journal of William Pulteney Alison | The diary gives an account of Alison's trip to Rouen, France, Paris, France, Geneva, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chamonix, France (where he failed to reach the summit of Mont Blanc), Milan, Italy, Pavia, Italy, Lake Como, Italy, Arth, Switzerland and the Rigi, Switzerland, Engelberg, Switzerland, Reichenbach, Switzerland, Berne, Switzerland, and Tours, France, amongst other places from August to November 1820. He records people he met, conversations, sites seen and hospitals visited. It also contains reminders to himself and an account he heard about smallpox at the front and financial accounts of the trip at the rear. Includes loose sheets with entries for 7 November, 9 November, 13 November and 17 November, giving details of visits to the Hospice de la Maternité, Les Enfants Malades and Val-de-Grâce in Paris, France and including some poetry on Oberhasli, Switzerland and the Tyrol, Switzerland (stored separately).The previous catalogue also indicates that the passport at AWP/5/5/6 was originally with this volume. | 1820 |
DEP/AWP/5/5/5 | Miscellaneous notes of William Pulteney Alison | The notebook was used to record a visit to the Smallpox and Fever Hospital in London, England August 1825 and a visit to a hospital in Paris, France from 13 to 26 August. After that he visited Foutainbleau, France, Clermont, France, Aix, France, Aosta, Italy, Zurich, Switzerland, Lucerne, Switzerland, Berne, Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland and others often visiting hospitals on the way. | 1825 |
DEP/BGW/14 | Letter from George William Balfour to his sister, Jane Balfour | Written from Vienna, Austria-Hungary [Austria]. He writes of their friend William Traquair; a visit to a mental hospital and a concert by two patients; a friend going to Zurich, Switzerland to collect Engel's papers and if Dr Bennett donated them to the Gesellschaft der Arzte zu Wien [Society of Physicians of Vienna] Balfour could nominate him as a corresponding member; description of Fleischmann's hospital; speed of recovery of pneumonia and typhus when treated homeopathically; Fleischmann's success compared to Skoda's; and his scepticism concerning homeopathy. | 26 Mar 1846 |
DEP/CUH/4 | Letter from Lewellys F Barker, Baltimore, United States of America to Mrs Ewald, Bodensee, Baden... | The letter is on paper headed 'Lewellys F Barker, Baltimore, MD' and addressed to Mrs Ewald at Schule Schloss Salem, Bodensee, Baden, Germany. He thanks her for her kind message and hopes that the war will not prevent their friendship continuing. He and his wife will be visiting Europe but will spend all their time in Switzerland. | 29 Jun 1927 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/143 | Letter from [Louis] Odier, Dir [Director?], Geneva, Switzerland to William Cullen | Case of his wife. He had already received a letter from Cullen about his niece. | 14 Feb 1774 |
DEP/HTW/2/5/9 | Letter from James Jeffray, Geneva, Switzerland, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He has settled Mr Stirling and will allow him to bathe in the lake. Mr Monro will return with him as far as Dijon in order to learn French. He has met his friends Dr Odier and Dr Sylvester who will act as physicians in his absence. He will report on their outrée and liberal medical society when he sees him. | 27 May 1787 |
DEP/HUJ/2/4 | Diary [of James Hume?] | The entries start on Friday 21st and end on Sunday 23rd. They describe a trip to the Mer de Glace near Chamonix, Servoz, Bonneville, France and a detailed account of Geneva, Switzerland. The writing is much neater than the previous volumes and only a small part of the volume was used. Dated from HUJ/2/2. | c1718 |
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 |
DEP/KWS/4/10 | 'Switzerland and Nerves' by Samuel Kinnier Wilson | Kinnier Wilson contributed to a longer article titled 'Alpine and Subalpine Climatic Treatment'. Printed in The Lancet. | 3 Dec 1912 |
DEP/MOR/1/8 | Diary of Sir Alexander Morison | Includes copies of letters at the front and rear to and from Lady Bute, Lady Guilford, Dr Thomas and Dr Campbell; and expenses for a trip from Lausanne to Geneva, Switzerland. | 28 Aug 1820-6 Sep 1821 |
DEP/PHR/7/4 | Postcard from Sir Robert Philip to Hilda Clark | The postcard is of Villa Post, Südselte. He gives instructions for sending his post to Coire, Switzerland then to 63 St James' Street London. | 9 Sep 1931 |
DEP/SMS/7/78 | Letters from Thomas Cook & Son to Sydney Smith | Letters concerning travel arrangements for Smith and Lady Smith to Geneva, Switzerland, Beirut, Lebanon, Delhi, India and Colombo, Sri Lanka; to Auckland, New Zealand and Vancouver, Canada; and to Montreal, Canada and Greenock, Scotland. | 1953-1956 |
DEP/TAH/1/2/3 | Notebook F of Haldane Tait | Notes from or on: Victor de Bonagentibus; Marsilius Ficinus; D Sennertius; disinfection; witchcraft (Elgin); mus decumanus; John Mean (plague); Barnabo Visconti; Sulphur fumigation; catramenia; Dioscorides (milk); Spon's history of Geneva, Switzerland; Evagrius (plague); Thomas the Rhymer; plague of Milan, Italy; nose (significance); Jews, persecution of; Procopius (plague); Gregory of Tours; Galen's epidemiology; Vitruvius; various plague tractates; Frederick III (receipts); XV century plague tractate; Galen (De Differentiis Febrium); Alexander Benedictus; Brucellopsis in horses; fear of the dead; Gilbert Skene; early anti-vaccinators; Jurin smallpox mortality; buying smallpox; syphilis, early writers; Idea Medicinae Veterum; De Abditis Rerum Causis; De Veneno Pestilenti; folk lore Portknockie; Ranchin on plague (Montpellier); Dumfries & Plague; Canadian Indian taboos; typhoid and paratyhpus (Nerlich); bulls horn in fumigation; cats and contagion; plague tractates; Die lehre von der kontagion bei den Arabem; plague (varia); Solomon Islands; exanthematologia; diphtheria; folk lore and folk medicine (varia); fertility charm (Akamba); Nagas; folklore of birds; Lamia; adoption rite (Circassia); Min Chia folk lore (Yunnan); pulmonary tublerculosis; pre-animism; Assam hill tribes; Vedda cult of dead; foot washing; amulets; toads and cancer; Albertus Magnus; quail and epilepsy; notes from Aleš Hrdlicka; and girdles etc. | 1950s |