DEP/AEC/4/9 | Aesculapian Club meeting 9 October 1982 | Includes the invitation to the meeting with the order of business on the reverse; handwritten minutes; menu; letters from Bill MacLennan, chair of the Club about his duties; letter from Bobby objecting to David Steel, the guest of honour's, attack on Margaret Thatcher but remembering his support of Steel's abortion Bill; and invoice for dinner. | Sep 1982-Oct 1982 |
DEP/ANO/7 | Volume of medical receipts and prescriptions, author unknown | The volume has been rebound. On the front is an original label 'Medical Receipts and Prescription' and on the rear 'Receipts and Prescriptions Dr Garthshore'. It has been used for a number of purposes and is in a number of different hands. From the front the pages are numbered 1-248 and consists of prescriptions and receipts (or recipes) divided into a number of sections. These are headed: 'Draughts' (page 1); 'Julapia' (page 7); 'Powders' (page 33); 'Receipts for children' (page 34) which are continued pages 42-43; 'Prescriptions Dr Cooper contra epilepsiam pro Comite Darlington' (page 39); 'Pharmacopaeia Noscomii Divi Thomae' (pages 44-71); 'Pharmacopaeia Noscomii Thomae Guy Armiger' (pages 72-89); an entry for distemper among horned cattle published at Magdeburg (page 90); Dr Ward's Nostrums', a list of nine prescriptions which were published 1763 (pages 92-97); 'fitt water for children' (page 98); and 'Formulae Medicament Dr Hugh Smith' (pages 99-165). From page 165-248 there are no headed sections although each prescription is clearly delineated.
From the rear the pages are numbered 728-800 and consist of extracts from medical texts, including prescriptions, with a name or names which are presumably the authors. The texts are titled: 'Of the Chlorosis or green sickness' Perry (pages 728-732); 'Of a Suppression of the menses' Perry, Pitcarn (pages 744-749); 'Of floodings' Cheyne (pages 765-768); 'Of the fluor albus or whites' Cheyne, Pitcarn, Perry (pages 780-788); 'Of the Furor Uterinus' Perry; 'Of Sterility and Barrenness' Perry; 'Of Abortions and Miscarriages' Perry; 'Of a hard delivery' Pitcarn, Perry; and 'Of the prolapse of the womb and anus' Perry.
The volume is undated although some of the prescriptions are, the latest being 1778 (page 111). There is an index which starts on the front flyleaf, continues on the last page and back flyleaf and is completed on p4. The index simply lists the prescriptions by page number and is not alphabetical. It is in a different hand from the majority of the text. | c1778 |
DEP/ANO/19 | 'Flooding Cases', author unknown | Notes of cases from various sources on difficulties with pregnancies. The sources include Mauriceau, La Motte, Puzos, Levret, Smellie, Chapman, Ould, Hofman, Gifford, Portal and Schenk. The notes do not name the patients but give details of the haemorrhage or miscarriage and at what stage of the pregnancy it occurred. The compiler of the volume is not given and it is not dated. According to the original manuscripts catalogue this was from the James Young Simpson collection but there is no bookplate or signature although the volume has been rebound. | c1750 |
DEP/CUL/2/1/15 | William Cullen's lectures on institutions etc | The volume consists of a number of sections. In the first section (possibly not all in Cullen's writing) the headings are: 'Atonics', 'Mennorrhagia','Fluor Albus', 'Abortus', 'Amenorrhea', 'Catarrhus', 'Dystenteria'. The second section is on various treatments which include blistering, Peruvian bark, stimulants etc. The third section is headed 'Of Fevers' but may not be entirely on that subject and includes the date 3rd January 1772.The fourth section is incomplete and appears to be about the physiology of muscles and fibres. After this there are what may be proofs of the printed contents pages from the 'Institutions of Medicine' with page number annotations. In amongst these are notes which may be for the sections of the book listed. At the rear of the volume are pages in Latin which have numbered sections I-XXXII and may therefore be a lecture plan. Described in the original manuscript catalogue as 'in his own hand'. | 3 Jan 1772 |
DEP/GJO/4/4 | Student notes by unknown individual from lectures of John Gregory on the practice of physic | The volume covers hydrops pectoris, hydrocephalus, scrofula, rickets, tinea, scabies, scurvy, lues venerea, gonorrhoea, jaundice, the stone, worms, hydrophobia, gripes or cholic, the tinea capites, diseases of women, fluor albus and abortion. Index at rear. | 1768-1769 |
DEP/HJA/4/30 | [Lectures on midwifery by James Hamilton] | Starts with a section titled 'On Abortion' and there are no other obvious divisions within the text. Includes loose pages also concerning abortion. | 1830s |
DEP/HTW/2/6 | Copy of a letter from Alexander Monro, to William Hamilton | Titled 'Advice for Mrs Hamilton' it concerns directions for her to avoid miscarriage with a prescription. Transcript available. | 6 Apr 1784 |
DEP/HTW/2/8/3 | Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Edinburgh, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He writes concerning their patient Mrs H [Hamilton] who is pregnant again. He speculates as to the causes of her past miscarriages. | 1786 |
DEP/ROA/2 | Student notes of Alexander Robertson from lectures of Andrew Duncan on medical jurisprudence | Title as given on volume is: 'The Praelectiones of Andrew Duncan MD on the Theory of Medicine Delivered at Edinburgh in 1792-93 Abridged Volume 2nd'. The volume contains lectures 1-31 of 'Part III - Medical Jurisprudence' and is divided into four headings: 'Concerning Questinos medico-legales which come before Criminal Courts' with the further headings under homicide - inspections of the body, wounds, contusions, hanging, drowning, suffocation, poison, child murder, abortion and rape; 'Concerning questions before Civil Courts' with the further headings under insanity - mania, melancholia, idiotism, pregnancy, delivery, suppositious birth, alleged diseases; 'Concerning questions before Consistorial courts' with the further headings impotence in men, sterility in women, hermaphrodites, venereal infection; and 'Concerning Questions with regard to Medical Police' with the further headings air, water, food, exercise, contagion, prisons, hospitals and burial of the dead. Bookplate of Alexander Robertson MD on front flyleaf and inscribed 'Ex Libris Alexr Robertson Edinburgi - presented by Dr Fitzpatrick'. | 1792 - 1793 |
DEP/ROY/1 | Case book of the Royal Maternity Hospital | Each case book entry gives the patient's name; age; previous labours and miscarriages; beginning and end of last catamenia; delivery date; length of each stage of delivery; presentation and position of child; sex and weight of the child; by whom delivered (giving the midwife's or doctor's name); and remarks (usually date of dismissal). There are gaps in the entries from March 1852 to August 1853 and from November 1853 to April 1854.
Although this volume is labelled as a case book of the Royal Maternity Hospital, it contains cases dating back to 1844 which pre-dates the opening of the hospital. One possible explanation is that an earlier case book from the Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital was copied into this one. A note on the front of the volume states 'NB Previously to May 1844 the Edinr Royal Maternity Hosp was called the Edinr General Lying-In Hospital whose records [ ] from 1823 to 1844 [ ]' (location illegible). The volume includes Dr James Young Simpson's first case in which he used chloroform in a hospital - Elizabeth Mackay, 22 November 1847 (Simpson had previously used chloroform on a private patient, believed to have been Jane Carstairs, on 9 November). | 25 May 1844-2 Jan 1872 |
DEP/SJY/1/1/4/9 | [Plans of lectures] by James Young Simpson, fourth | The notes start with 'Laboured Parturition Order II - cases requiring instrumental assistance'. The content is the same as SJY/1/1/4/3 up to p95 after which there are notes on malformations of mamma, diagnosis of pregnancy, abortion, anatomy and diseases of the uterus etc. No annotations on flyleaf. See also SJY/1/1/4/5 and 17. Date approximate. | c1844 |
DEP/SJY/3/1 | Case book of James Young Simpson | The volume gives the patient's name in a column on the left of the page. A number of headings are given in the book although not all of them are used for each patient and fewer headings are used later in the volume. The headings at the beginning of the volume are: last appearance of catamenia and quickening; former miscarriages and the period; under the overall heading of duration of labour - false pains, commencement of labour, complete dilation of uterus, delivery of child, delivery of placenta, discharge of liquor amnii, 1st stage, 2nd stage, 3rd stage, total labour (time); under the overall heading of placenta - haemorrhage quantity and period of labour, cause of retained placenta and how delivered; under the overall heading of child - cord round the neck, still born and recovered, cried before the birth of shoulders; under overall heading of plurality - sex, alive or dead, presentation, weight, interval of delivery; and remarks. Later in the volume these headings change to: made first examination at what hour; diameter of os uteri at first examination; commencement of pains; what pregnancy (number); duration of stages; presentation; when delivered; sex; whether alive or dead; length of the cord; and weight of the child and placenta. | 1836-1843 |
DEP/SMS/1/1/26 | Letters from J Maude Bowie, The Scottish Nurse to Sydney Smith | She asks Smith for an article on a nurse's legal position with regard to evidence in divorce cases and criminal abortions. | 30 Mar 1930 |
DEP/SMS/3/4 | Case file of Sydney Smith: Avarne | Correspondence relating to an accusation of criminal abortion against Dr Avarne in the Jersey court. Includes a letter from Alex Bourne, another defence witness, with an account of the trial, 1956 and a notebook kept by Smith. Smith provided testimony in his defence and Sir Bernard Spilsbury for the prosecution. Avarne was acquitted. | 1933-1956 |
DEP/SMS/7/1 | Publication file of Sydney Smith: Articles - A | Includes three copies of 'Abortion', The Scottish Nurse, 1930; 'Abortion: A Discussion on its Social Legal and Ethical Aspects', Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1932 (three copies, one with amendments); typed draft of 'Accidents from Electricity', 1929. | 1929-1932 |
DEP/SMS/7/38 | Publication file of Sydney Smith: Articles - P | Includes 'Prussic Acid Poisoning - A Report on Three Cases'; 'The Role of Contraception and Abortion in Population Control', an address given to the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Ceylon, 1954, draft and final version; 'Pregnancy and Unruptured Hymen', British Medical Journal, 1924; 'Prospect and Retrospect' draft and final versions of a paper written for a symposium organised by the Law-Science Institute, University of Texas with correspondence. | 1924-1954 |
DEP/SMS/7/48 | Publication file of Sydney Smith: Book - Forensic Medicine [First edition] | Includes 'Outbreak of Food-Poisoning from Bread Made of Chemically Contaminated Flour' by G M Davies, British Medical Journal, 1956 (found at p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Post Mortem Temperature and the Time of Death' by G S W de Saram, Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, 1955 (p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Clinical Histories of Infants Reported to Coroner as Cases of Sudden Expected Death' by J L Emery, British Medical Journal, 1956 (p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Determination of Blood Group of Foetus In Utero' (p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'The Problems of Puberty' by Douglas Hubble, British Medical Journal, 1958 (p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'The Eye of Death' by Jack Kevorkian, Clinical Symposia, 1961 (p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Notes on the Estimation of Age of Nigerian Children' by Sir Samuel Manuwa, West African Medical Journal, 1957 (p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Toxicity of Some Atmospheric Pollutants' by R E Pattle, British Medical Journal, 1956 (p278 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Delayed Death from Air Embolism in Criminal Abortion' by Keith Simpson, The Medico-Legal Journal, 1958 (p328 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Fat Embolism' by Keith Simpson, Journal of Forensic Medicine, 1959 (p222 'Forensic Medicine'); 'Barbiturate Poisoning Treated with Amiphenazole and Bemegride' by Arnold Worlock, British Medical Journal, 1956 (p222 'Forensic Medicine') | 1924-1954 |
DEP/SMS/8/9 | Publications and writing sent to Sir Sydney Smith - M | 'The Sociological and Medical Aspects of Induction and Abortion' by Louise McIlroy, Journal of State Medicine, 1936; 'Medicine in the Time of Queen Elizabeth the First' by Sir Arthur MacNalty, British Medical Journal, 1953; 'School Versus Academy in the Medical Curriculum' by Charles McNeil, British Medical Journal, 1956; 'An Address' by Dr W E McNeill, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1947; 'The Orientation of Medical Education' by Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1933; 'Recent Developments Concerning the Criteria of Sex and Possible Legal Implications' by Keith L Moore, Manitoba Bar News, 1959; and 'The Effects of High Explosives upon the Central Nervous System' by Frederick Mott, The Medical Society of London, 1916. | 1916-1959 |
DEP/STJ/2/2/1 | File of John Strong: Microphthalmos | Originally in one folder with the title 'Microphthalmos' divided into three. Folder 1 (loose papers under the flap of the folder) - numbers of cases of congenital abnormalities and spontaneous abortions in certain postcodes, cancer registration for certain postcodes with maps of distribution and programme of work on human morbidity in an envelope labelled 'Abortions, Cong [Congenital] Abnormalities, maps of distribution of cases Hodgkins, leukaemia etc'; MR(84) Document 47 - congenital malformations and Document 50 - information from Forth Valley Health Board on microphthalmos cases; letter to Strong with corrections to Chapter 2 of the morbidity review; MR(85) Document 5 - newspaper articles to 8th January 1985; first draft of Chapter 1 of the morbidity review; note by Information Services Division on congenital malformations, cancer registrations and ratio of male to female births; Strong's correction to sections 20-22 of Chapter 2; Appendix 3 - Microphthalmos to the morbidity review report; handwritten section by Strong on microphthalmos/andophthalmos; MR(84) Document 47 with extensive annotations; handwritten Appendix 3 - Microphthalmos by Strong. Folder 2 - cuttings on micropthalmos; letter concerning the effect of foetal alcohol syndrome; MR(84) Document 50; letter from A L Speirs, consultant paediatrician to the morbidity review on congenital abnormalities; and notes by Strong from articles on microphthalmos. Folder 3 - articles on foetal alcohol syndrome, microphthalmos, thalidomide, agent orange. | 1984-1985 |
DEP/WOP/1 | Medical therapeutics notebook of Philip Worley | The volume contains notes on subjects such as abortion, acne, alcoholism etc. The volume also contains loose items, including: letter dated 20 November from [H G] Brooke, advertising flyer for Diacetyl-Dihydroxyphenyl-Isatine', advertising flyer for Chocolate Iodostarin Tahiric Acid Di-Iodide Tablets, letter dated 15 November from W [Milligan], printed diet list (menu for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner), letter dated 1 December 1911, letter dated 25 February 1920, presercription note headed 'Mrs Armitage', cutting from British Medical Journal regarding acute pneumonia dated 9 November 1895, prescription note headed 'Mrs Clark' dated 16 May 1919, prescription note for 'Mrs [Menier]', printed advertisement for adrenalin ointment', prescription note for Mrs Wright, prescription for [haemorrhoids]. | 1891-1919 |