DEP/BRE/3/2/41 | Letter from Professor Kappers, Amsterdam [Netherlands] to Edwin Bramwell | He writes of the death of Elliot Smith. | 28 Jan 1937 |
DEP/BRE/3/2/65 | Letter from Dr H de Jong, Amsterdam [Netherlands] to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks Bramwell for his hospitality. De Jong was the president of the Amsterdam [Netherlands] Neurological Society. | 7 Jun 1937 |
DEP/COJ/2/1/7 | [Untitled set of lecture notes] of John Dixon Comrie | Sections titled 'Michael Scot 1180-1230 (ca)'; 'Medicine in the 13th and 14th Centuries - Monkish medicine (St Gall), Scrofula, Montpellier'; 'Medicine at Florence in the 15th Century - Leonardo da Vinci, Benvenuti Cellini, Guilds'; 'Dutch Universities' [Netherlands] outline notes on16th-18th centuries; and 'Vesalius - Servetus - Paracelsus'. | 1930s |
DEP/COJ/2/5/1 | Illustrations collected by John Dixon Comrie | Includes six film negatives of interior and exterior scenes possibly in Florence (originally in an envelope addressed to John Dixon Comrie from Silvio Piancastelli & Co, Florence); photographs of works of art including statue of Laocoon and his two sons are fighting with snakes (Pio-Clementine Museum, Vatican Museums) and the Indian Bacchus Vatican; photographs of church built by Jean Pesyn in Leiden [Netherlands], Roman wall at Buddy's Brag[?], the Tiber in Rome [Italy], Hooglandse church in Leiden [Netherlands], a building with coats of arms of Vesanevelt, Block, Vachthoven and Strigtenhuis, a plaque to Herman Boerhaave attached to a tree, a charter in Dutch [Netherlands], the interior of a library, Canova's monument, Laecken Halle in Leiden [Netherlands] and the lumbar canal; four film negatives originally in an envelope labelled 'Boerhaave, Leiden'; and handwritten notes on fat metabolism in the body. Undated. | 1920s-1930s |
DEP/CRD/2/9 | [List of territories in North America, South America and historic Empires] | From the collection of David and Andrew Craigie. The list for North America gives the British territories and islands, Spanish territories and islands, Dutch islands, French islands and Danish islands. The list for South America gives the French, Spanish, [Netherlands] Dutch and Portuguese territories. The lists for historic empires gives the territories held at particular times for the Empire of Assyria, Empire of the Persians, Empire of Alexander the Great, Empire of the Parthians, Roman Empire and the Empire of Charlemagne. | c1780 |
DEP/CRO/3/18 | Royaumont News-Letter No 10 | From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton. Includes letter from our President; report of a visit to Holland [Netherlands]; obituary for Etta Inglis; report of a visit to Royaumont; Royaumont Reunion Dinner; Glasgow Reunion Dinner; account of four years in Occupied France; news from members; and balance sheet. | Jan 1947 |
DEP/CRO/3/35 | Royaumont and V C Association of the Scottish Women's Hospitals News Letter No 5 Series 2 | From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton. Includes letters from the President and Chairman; tea party and annual general meeting; obituaries for Tollit, Betty (Mrs Bruce), Merrylees, Mrs Robinson, Warner, Little Murray (Mrs Galbraith) and Dr Louisa Martindale; reprint of an article 'A Hospital in France Chapter III' by Collum, 1918; news from members; account of a Spaish fiesta by Peter (Williams); account of her home in La Chapelle de la Clarté by Little Andy; account of Christmas in Montreal by Dr Henry; account of a visit to the [Netherlands] Dutch bulb fields; and statement of accounts. | Jan 1966 |
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/3/4 | Correspondence of Dr William Stuart Craig relating to the history of the Royal College of... | Correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by William Stuart Craig. The majority of the letters are to thank the College for sending copies of the history. Also includes some letters similar to those at CRW/3/1 from Thomas Crone; Alexander Cormack; I M Campbell; Derrick Dunlop; Sir Donald Douglas; Martin Eastwood; Rae Gilchrist; Howard Haslett; Dr W M Lyon on Richard Poole; I M Payne, Royal College of Physicians, London; Sir Kenneth Robson; Basil Skinner; Professor H A Snellen,[Holland] Netherlands. In a folder with alphabetical subject dividers by surname of correspondent. | 1972-1976 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/2481 | Letter from Nichl [Nicholas ?] Renwick, Liverpool, England to William Cullen | Letter of introduction for Thomas Padgett from Lancaster, England. He also gives an account of his son's studies in Paris, France, Italy, Germany and Holland [Netherlands]. | 9 Oct 1789 |
DEP/CUL/1/3/4 | Letter from Saml [Samuel] Foast Simmons, Leyden [Leiden] [Netherlands] to William Cullen | He writes that he has inscribed his inaugural dissertation to Cullen; that Professor Gaubius no longer gives lectures; of Professor Van Doeueren [?]; and that 'the Hanoverian' who is translating First Lines is getting married to a Leyden lady. He asks for Cullen's comments on his work and thanks him for 'the infinite number of new and useful ideas I acquired from your lectures'. In index. | 30 Jun 1776 |
DEP/CUL/1/3/112 | Letter from Phoebus Hitzerus Themmen, Amsterdam [Netherlands] to William Cullen | Letter of introduction for Mr Twising [?] and Mr Van Meurs. Themmen was a student of Cullen's. In index. | 9 Jun 1784 |
DEP/CUL/1/3/133 | Letter from E T T a Thuessink [?], Zwoll [Zwolle], Overijssel [Netherlands] to William Cullen | He is to set up in practice in the Hague where his reputation would be established 'at once' as a student of Cullen's. He asks for a letter of recommendation. In index. | 1 Nov 1785 |
DEP/EOS/2/6 | Contents of the library of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society | Divided into English, American, French, Belgian, Italian, Dutch and German publications. From the front of EOS/1/8. | c1920 |
DEP/HAL/7/1 | Translation of a Dutch Description of a Complicated Deformity | An account of a patient with an external bladder and deformed genitalia signed in print by A Bonn, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Amsterdam [Netherlands]. From the collection of Alexander Hamilton. | 1 Jan 1791 |
DEP/MEA/1/1/21 | Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - Abadan [Iran] and after | From the collection of Arnold Meiklejohn. Although all these papers were in the one folder there is a clear divide by subject between Meiklejohn's work in Iran and his work for UNRRA and the Oxford Nutrition Survey. Items in folder one were in a flap at the front of the folder and relate to Iran. The other two folders are arranged in the order in which they were originally kept. Folder 1 - letters with expenses claims by Meiklejohn for his journey from the UK to Abadan, correspondence on the terms and conditions of his employment, correspondence with J A Jameson, Managers of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Sir Edward Mellanby, Frank Marsh etc and letters about the distribution of cod liver oil amongst the children in the area; and draft article by Meiklejohn on the health situation in Abadan.
Folder 2 - 'Nutrition in Belgium' by Meiklejohn with additional notes and a list of medical men in Belgium who could provide information on nutrition; summary of international research by H E Magee, Ministry of Health giving the doctor's name, institution and area of research; interview with Czech nutritionists, 1944; Oxford Nutrition Survey Preliminary Report on Nutritional Surveys in the Netherlands, 1945; Report on the State of Nutrition in France 1941 to January 1945 by Dr Arnold Meiklejohn for Dr Andrew Topping, UNRRA; report on the nutritional conditions in the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil by Arnold Meiklejohn, T H Stephens and Phyllis Williams, 1942, draft and final copies.
Folder 3 - report on the nutritional conditions in the Burgh of Dundee by Arnold Meiklejohn, Phyllis Williams and W H Hammond, 1944; report on nutritional conditions in Accrington by Arnold Meiklejohn, John D Kershaw and Phyllis Williams, 1942, draft and final copies; and report on nutritional conditions in Chesterfield, England with a covering letter from Meiklejohn to Mrs Hooper of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1943. | 1942-1954 |
DEP/POR/6/3/1 | Letters from John Thomson, Edinburgh, Scotland to Richard Poole | He writes to Richard Poole on the following: with a list of maps to be used in the atlas and offering to send the whole of Arrowsmith and Pinkerton and any others Poole may need; with maps from Menzies; with a map of the Netherlands which is accurate but needs to be beautified; asking Poole to get Menzies to copy the places missing on the map of Africa from the map in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia or Arrowsmith; offering Poole two hundred guineas for his editorship; enclosing proofs; with a draft letter to members of the church to advertise the atlas; suggesting a production of Captain Flanders voyage or a map of New Holland; and sending a map of the United States [United States of America] drawn by Hewitt who has become 'rather unrully'. | 10 May 1813 - 24 Sep 1814 |
DEP/SMS/2/47 | Subject file of Sydney Smith: Suicide, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Holland [Netherlands], France... | Includes graphs of suicide statistics, 1910-1932; statistics for suicide for Sweden, Italy, Germany, Holland [Netherlands], France and Spain 1900-1935; comparative table showing deaths from poisoning produced by the Poisons Board, 1938; table of unemployment and suicide, 1910-1936; deaths by poisoning in Edinburgh, Scotland by occupation and gender 1931-1933; 'Suicide in America', British Medical Journal, 1938; newspaper cuttings on suicide; handwritten notes on suicide; case of suicide by suffocation in Southend, England; and report to the Board of Trade of the Departmental Committee on Deaths from Gas Poisoning, 1930. | 1930-1938 |
DEP/SOC/6/2/21 | Letters from Daniel H Tuke, York, England | From the correspondence of the Society for Improving the Conditions of the Insane. He writes concerning the regulations for the prize essay; the submission of his essay; his thanks on receiving the prize; his intention to tour France and write a history of insanity in France; the return of his essay so he can copy it; (sent from Paris, France) his visits to asylums in Holland [Netherlands], Prussia, Austria, Germany and France; publication of his essay including an insert for the first chapter; selling the volume; and reviews of his essay. | 1 Jan 1853-17 Jul 1855 |
DEP/TAH/1/2/7 | Notebook N of Haldane Tait | Notes from or on: Scottish staple port at Vere; Scots brigade in Holland [Netherlands]; reports on plague; John Clyn - Annals of Ireland; Eulogium Historiarum; quarantines; A Kircher; pneumoniic and bubonic plague; infectivity of pulmonary consumption; plague and Royalist prisoners; Franciscus Alphanus; slave trade; De Medicina Danorum Domestica - Bartholini; diseases of West Indies [Jamaica]; Trismus Neonatorum; history of Jamaica [West Indies]; folk cures; Admirals Vernon, Boscawen, Hawke; leprosy; William Harvey; elk; St Fillans spring; feet; statistical accounts; leeches; Prosper Alpinus; witchcraft; anodyne necklace; Reverend Archibald Skeldie; loss of East and West India convoy, 1780; Sir Joseph Banks; John Quier; digitalis; Thomas Dover - The Ancient Physicians' Legacy to his Country; hysteria (Shetland); antimonial cups; leprosy - legal disability; Sir James McGrigor; army mortality in West Indies [Jamaica]; popular errors (Primrose); mercurialis; Marsilius Ficinus; cupping; John Welsh; Anthony Deusing; and fires (against plague). | 1950s |