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DEP/ABJ/3/3

Notes of John Abercrombie: [On Fevers etc]

Volume with notes on the symptoms and treatment of intermittent fever, remittent fever, continued fever, pneumonia, gastritis, enteritis and hepatitis. Also includes two cases towards the rear (not consecutive with each other or any other written pages) one of irregular fever with gangrene and the other of an accident on a boat. The cases are dated. Similar in format to ABJ/3/4.

c1811

DEP/AUA/1

Student notes of Adam Austin from clinical lectures of John Rutherford at the Royal Infirmary of...

The flyleaf is signed 'Dr Adam Austin 5th July 1759' and contains a note of a book lent in 1755. The volume starts with lists of books in folio, quarto and octavo, with place and year of publication and in some cases cost, and a list of manuscripts. The lists may be Austin's library. The library catalogue is followed by 'Rules to be observed by the Apprentices in regard to the Shop and Patients' which relate to the operation of a pharmacy, Mr Smyth and Dr Austin being named as those issuing prescriptions.

Dr Rutherford's clinical lectures start after the rules and give case studies for three patients, giving the patient's name, complaint and treatment. At p16 there is a new heading 'Clinical Lectures delivered in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by John Rutherford Professor of the Practice of Physic in the College of Edinburgh begun 1749' although this might indicate the year Rutherford started lecturing rather than when the notes were taken. These also include case studies. The dating here is unclear although some of the case studies include dates of admission to the Royal Infirmary. From p192 a letter from John Pringle has been copied into the volume on the case of Mrs Dowal, giving prescriptions and suggested treatment. On p206 an item from 'The Pennsylvanian Gazette' has been copied into the volume on inoculation against small pox. After this are other letters from James Bales (1758) and James Aikman (1762) interspersed with further case studies. At the end is a case of 'gravelish complaints' which includes a page headed 'Dr Austin's opinion in regard to Mr Elliot's Case'. There is an index at the rear giving the patient's name and condition.

There are also lectures on specific subjects rather than case studies. These are: inoculation, epilepsy, scrophula, venereal disease, scurvy, headache, ague and measles.

Throughout the volume it is not clear whether the first person used is Rutherford or Austin. Austin had started working at the Royal Infirmary by at least 1763 although many of the cases do pre-date that. There is also more than one hand used in the volume so authorship of specific parts is not clear.

4 Jan 1753 - 7 Apr 1765

DEP/BGW/17

Letter from George William Balfour to his father, Reverend Lewis Balfour

Written from Vienna, Austria-Hungary [Austria]. He writes of Spring at the hospital; epidemic of intermittent fever and it possibly being a precursor to the cholera currently in Russia; success of treating cholera homeopathically; his surprise at seeing an engraving by Edward Burton (a friend); and a trip into the countryside at Laab, Austria-Hungary [Austria] to visit a friend working at a water cure place. Two copies of each page due to lines being missed in photocopying.

1 May 1846

DEP/BRO/1

Student notes by unknown individual from lectures of John Brown on elements of medicine

Title as given on volume is 'Lectures on the Elements of Medicine by Dr John Brown'. Subtitled 'The Brunonian System 1785'. The section headings are: 'Method of Cure' (para 85); 'Of the Phlogistic Diathesis' (para 130); 'The Seat of Excitability', 'Of Predisposition', 'Of Different Menstruation', 'Of the Menorrhagia', 'Of the Epistaxis', 'Of the Haemorrhois', 'Of the Asthenic Disease of the Alimentary and Abdominal Viscera taken together', 'Of the Angina', 'Of the Scurvy', 'Of Hysteria', 'Of the Phthisis Senilis or Asthenic', 'Of the Cystirrhea', 'De Podagra validiorum', 'Of the asthma', 'Spasm', 'The Anasarea', 'The Colicodynia', 'The Dyspepsodynia', 'Podagra imbecillinum', 'The Hypochondriasis', 'The Hydrops', 'Epilepsy', 'In Paralysis', 'Apoplexy', 'Trismus', 'Tetanus', 'Of Intermittents', 'Dysentery', 'The Cholera gravior', 'Synochus', 'The Typhus simplicior', 'The Cynanche gangrenosa' and 'The confluent small pox'. It is not known who took the lecture notes.

1785

DEP/CHR/1/1

Student notes of Robert Christison from lectures by James Gregory on the practice of physic

Title as given on volume is 'Notes from the lectures on the Practice of Physic of Dr James Gregory delivered in the University of Edinburgh 1816-17'. A note on the title page reads 'the first part of the Professor's historical lectures, from p X to p XXIII inclusive were copied by me about 1845 from notes taken about the same period as my own by Mr J F Macfarlan' and signed by Christison. The volume ends with an abstract of Cleghorn's 'Treatment of Intermittents', 'Influence of the Sun and the Moon on Intermittent Fevers' from James Lind on 'Diseases of Hot Climates' and a poem by Thomas Dibdin.

1816 - 1817

DEP/CUL/1/2/2562

Letter [by William Cullen] to unnamed correspondent

Letter probably to another doctor who had been describing cases of 'louping ague' and whether it can be epidemic. He cites cases he has known and refers his correspondent to [Herman] Boerhaave. Dr Fargison [Ferguson], Dundee written on reverse.

1755 - 1790

DEP/CUL/2/1/4

William Cullen's clinical lectures

The lectures cover a number of diseases and give a description, prognosis and cure and includes case notes. Subjects covered and patients' names: palsy - Jean Cockburn; rheumatism - Barbara Campble [Campbell], Alexander Heron, Isobel McArthur, William Bell, Thomas Hamilton, Margaret Stewart; hysteric disease - Janet Seton, Mary Fraser; melancholia - James Allan; scrophula - William Hay; jaundice - Katherine Hamilton; dysentery - Andrew Robertson, John Madoe; gonorrhea virulenta, gleet and pox - Donald McRaw, James Davidson, Grant Murdoch Kellock; intermittent fever - Laurence Barr, William Jordan, James Garrow (anasarca after intermittent), Mary McDonald; continued fevers - Jean Davidson, Anne Ogilvie. From p335 the volume includes 'Observations on the Symptoms of Continued Fevers by Dr Whyte' with case notes for James McNab.

5 Jan 1764-16 Jan 1764

DEP/LAT/1/23

Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Malaria - Agues - Remittents - Contind [Continued]

Contains 'Malarious Fevers' with an extract from a textbook on specific fevers; 'Intermittent Fevers' with an extract from a textbook on remittent fevers and pernicious remittents; and 'Mesenteric Glands'. Also includes 'On the treatment of fever by cobweb' by James Donaldson, 1863; 'On the remittent fever of the west coast of Africa' by John M Hunter, 1873; memorandum by J Breutle [?] on his own case of ague, 1861; and small cuttings on quinine as a cure for ague, on arsenious acid as a substitute for quinine, treatment of ague by heat to the spine, arsenic in intermittents, arsenic in ague, on brassfounders' ague and, from the Indian Medical Gazette, on malaria, 1861-1873.

1861-1873

DEP/PRJ/1/2

Medical Annotations Volume 2 by Sir John Pringle, United States of America

The volume is divided into short chapters including the headings: diarrhoea and lienteria; gum ammoniacum; soap; cephalalgia, hemicrania; haemorrhages, floodings etc (haemoptoe excepted); pleurisy and perpneumony; cholera; tussis convulsiva; dolor nephriticus; morbus articularis [gout]; diseases of the army in America in campaign 1759 & 1760 which consists of a letter from Dr Richard Huck dated 5th December 1760 from New York [United States of America] and pasted into the volume; intermittents and other periodical diseases; yellow and bilious fever of the West Indies [Jamaica]; colics in general; essential oils, aromatics and cordials; and emetics.

Inserted at p154 is a letter from Alexander Garden at Charleston mostly concerning treatment with mercury, dated 25th April 1761. Attached to pp159 and inserted at p160 are letters from Van Swieten in Latin, dated 13th January 1762, 29th April 1763 and 6th June 1764. Attached to p167 is a letter from Joannes Baptista Morgagni, dated March 1763. Pages 171-202 are pasted in and are in Latin and another handwriting. Pages 119-122 and 131-136 have been cut out. Dated from an entry on p130.

c1774

DEP/PRJ/3/1

Notebook of Sir John Pringle

These are notes and references to his 'Medical Annotations'. Some entries are just references to the relevant volume and page of 'Medical Annotations' but others give additional information. Arranged into sections headed: General Rules for Health; ague; ancylosis; asthma; apoplexy and recent palsy; belly hard in children; blood (spitting of); burns; breath offensive; a bruise; cachexy; cancer; childblains and kibes; chincough or hooping cough; colds; cholera morbus; chopt lips; colic in children; colic bilious; colic habitual; colic (painter's); clyster; consumption; contusions, luxations; convulsions; corns; costiveness; cough from a cold; cough with inflammation of the lungs; violent coughing; cramp of the legs; a cut; deafness; diabetes; diarrhoea; dropsy; dysentery; ear ach; ears itching; eyes (inflammed); eruptions in children; eyes (specks); expectoration to promote in pulmonary inflammations; excoriation to prevent when threatened by constant lying in bed; face foul; falling sickness or epilepsy; fevers in general; flatulence with low spirits; fits hysteric or convulsive; flux white; fundament, itching of; ganglion; gout; gravel; gums spungy and bleeding; head-ach; heat of the blood and thirst; hiccup; hoarseness; jaundice; hypochondriasis; ileus; inquietude, restlesssness or fidgets; itch; leprosy; lameness; leanness; weakness of the legs in children; leprosy or impetigo; lecucophley matia; lethargy; lock jaw; looseness; lumbago; lunacy; menses obstructed; measles; menstruation; coagulated milk; mouth sore or excoriated; nerve wounded; nerves, weakness of; pain (inflammatory); palms of the hand hot; palpitations nervous; palsy of the arms; piles or haemorrhoids; pleurisy and peripneumony; quinsy; rupture; scald head; sciatica; scirrhouse glands; scurvy (marine); sea sickness; shin rubbed off; small pox; sores; sprains; stomach pain from an acid; stone in the bladder; strictures; swelled legs;swelled face from a rheum upon the teeth; swelling (white); toothach; thirst; tenesmus; thrush; torpor or numbness of the limbs; vertigo; ulcer; vomica; vomiting; urine (bloody); warts; watery gripes (in infants); whites; worms; contused worms; and wounds of the tendons. There is a supplement in the rear with additional headings and continuations from elsewhere in the book: stiff joynt or ancylosis; rheumatism; breeding sickness; fundament falling down; hysterics and female spasmodics; scrophula; sprains; and wax emulsion. There are also a number of other headings throughout for which no notes were entered.

c1773

DEP/RJO/3/2

Clinical lectures [of John Rutherford]

The volume is divided into subjects with appropriate case studies. Although these are less well dated than in the previous volume, they do appear to be in the same hand. There are also lectures on wounds and ague. There is an index at the rear giving the patient's name and disease but it does not give page numbers.

c1751

DEP/SAY/1

Prescription recipes [created by Mary Sayer]

Work possibly by Mary Sayer; inscribed on the flyleaf 'Mary Sayer December the 12 1717'. Each prescription includes the ingredients and the method of preparation. A lot of them also have a name next to the title which may be the patient's but is more likely to be the person who originally told Sayer the prescription. A number are attributed to 'my mother' and one prescription is described 'Mrs Sayer never faild - my mother constantly used itt'. Other names include Dr Critten, Dr Coatsworth, Mrs Nash, Lady Floyer, Mrs Hawley, Lady Crisp, Dr Willis, Mrs Hopgood etc. The volume is written in more than one hand and is indexed at the end.

The recipes are:

The Herbs for the Plague-watter'. Page 1.

To stanch bleeding in the Nose'. Page 1.

For a Cough'. Page 2.

A very good purge'. Page 2.

For a Cough'. Page 2.

For a Canker'. Page 2

A Watter for the stomach small pox or surfeit'. Page 3.

For a Rumetisme'. Page 3.

A Receipt for the kings Evil. Dr Critten. Page 4.

The diet Drink To be Drank a pint A day Leaving of Beer'. Page 4.

The Bolus'. Page 4.

The Oyntment'. Page 4.

How to make the Diet Drink'. Back of page 4.

For the Rumetisme the same at page 3'. Back of page 4.

Mrs Fran: Sayer An Eye watter'. Page 5.

For Freckles'. Back of page 5.

A palsey. Dr Coatsworth'. Back of page 5.

An Excellent wash for heats'. Page 6.

Oyles for a swell'd face with the Toothitch. Mr Todd'. Page 6.

An oyntment for ye palsey Cur'd a gentleman. Dr Coatsworth'. Page 6.

A Palsey. Dr Coatsworth'. Page 6.

A Poultice for a Milke Sore Breast or to Disolve or Breake it. Mrs Nash'. Back of page 6.

The Red Harry plaister for a spraine. Mrs Nash'. Page 7.

For a prick with a Thorne & to draw it out. Mrs Nash'. Back of page 7.

The Balsamick Syrup. Mrs Nash'. Back of page 7.

Stone Horse dung water, a certaine cure for a Rhumatisme. Mrs Nash'. Back of page 7.

Cumming Seed Oytment for a Pain in ye Side. Lady Floyer'. Page 9.

Compound Tincture of Rhubarb. Mrs Hawley'. Page 9.

To prevent Fitts in young Children & never had but one child that had fitts & that was before she knew this medcine. Mrs Sayer'. Page 9.

For the yallow Jaundice. Dr Needem'. Page 10.

The Broth. This cured my grandmother M Sayer'. Page 10.

Sweet Salve for an Issue'. Page 11.

A Drink given to Children in the month or at any other time for wind or gripes. Lady Floyer used by sister Crisp'. Page 11.

Black Salve. Lady Crisp'. Page 11.

The Yellow Salve. Lady Floyer'. Page 12.

For pimples in the face. This cured Mrs Howards she was maid of honour to king Jomes Queen'. Page 12.

For Fitts in young Children. Lady Floyer'. Page 12.

Dr Slaves Pouder. Lady Floyer'. Page 13.

A Diabetus. Lady Floyer'. Page 13.

For a Rhuematisme'. Page 13.

For Tooth Ach'. Page 13.

For ye Gripes'. Page 13.

Mrs Babbingtons black-salve. Lady Floyer'. Page 14.

A good Way to make salve into roles. Mrs Hopegood'. Page 14.

For the pyles. Lady Floyer'. Page 15.

A Watter for sharp Humours in the stomach'. Page 15.

An Astma. Dr Ratcliffe'. Page 16.

The Julip'. Page 16.

Another by Dr Ratcliffe'. Page 16.

A Glister for the Worms that was used to a Child that was given over by all, & the Brother dyed of the wormes and after he was dead they came from him and ye above said child by this Glister recovered. Lady Floyer'. Page 17.

For a sprain, this Cured a Coach man that fell off his coach & sprained his back. Lady Floyer'. Page 17.

For the Wormes. Lady Crisp'. Page 17.

For a Burn or scald Takes out the Fire gives present Ease never makes it smart. Lady Floyer approved'. Page 18.

For a Sore-throat canser? Or other Inflamation'. Page 18.

A Purging Infusion. From Lady Reves by Dr Coatsworth'. Page 18.

A drink for one that has a sore Breast. By Dr Willis'. Page 19.

A Cure for the Rhumatisme'. Page 19.

To keep ye small pox out of ye throat'. Page 19.

For sore mouths or thrush in little Children'. Page 20.

Wind Collick'. Page 20.

For the Collich'. Page 20.

Griping of the Gutts'. Page 20.

The Gripes'. Page 20.

In a Feaver wh lyes in ye head. Lady Floyer'. Page 20.

Lady Hewets Cordiall Water. Sr John Crisp'. Page 20-22.

The great Palsey Water. Mrs Hill'. Page 22-23.

Lady Lidcots Salve. Mrs Knightly'. Page 23-24.

Lucatello's Balsam. Sr John Crisp'. Page 24-25.

Archus his Excellent Wound Balsom. By Dr Hartman; Sr John Crisp'. Page 25-26.

Lady Allens Water'. Page 26-27.

Red Cordiall Pouder. Mrs Nash'. Page 27-28.

In a Feaver to apply to the Wrist. Lady Floyer'. Page 28.

Collick Watter. Mr Barrow'. Page 29.

For any Burn or scald. Lady Floyer'. Page 29.

For a Hoarseness. This cured Mrs Dickson wn she was given over by a Physitian'. Page 29.

For the Wormes'. Page 31.

Drink given to Children in ye month for gripes or wind given 'em at any Time'. Page 31.

A Glister for fitts or gripes or convulsions in the Bowells in Children and others'. Page 31.

For a Looseness it may be Taken in Childbed'. Page 31.

A Glister'. Page 32.

For a hiccup'. Page 32.

For fitts in children. Lady Floyer'. Page 32.

For ye scurvy'. Page 32.

To stop Bleeding'. Page 32.

To stop a Looseness'. Page 32.

A Man that his leggs swelling from the knee to ye Anckle with redness and Inflamation was thus Cured'. Page 34.

For any common swelling. Mrs Fran: Sayer'. Page 34.

To keep ye heart? well in ye smallpox. Mrs Hopegood'. Page 34.

For a sprain Wrench or Bruise. By Mr Woodward surgeon'. Page 35.

The scorzenece Milk. Lady Hoyer'. Page 35.

For a dropsy. My mother'. Page 36.

A Purge for a Child. Mrs Tapp'. Page 36.

Another by Mr Barrow'. Page 36.

A Plaister for a looseness By Dr Betts from Lady Hoyer'. Page 36.

For the Worms'. Page 37.

To kill stomach worms'. Page 37.

Gripes and Loose stools for a Child in ye month? Lady Floyer'. Page 37.

For ye Collick and Gripes'. Page 37.

A Poltice to put to a Child in the month or ither that has fitts or much griped or convulsions in ye Bowells. Lady Floyer'. Page 38.

To Purge a Child in ye month. Lady Floyer'. Page 38.

A purg for a child that has the worms. Mr Barrow'. Page 38.

Balsamick Tincture. Mrs Hopegood'. Page 39-40.

To Make a snale water. My mother'. Page 41.

To Priserve Wallnuts Phisickally. My mother'. Page 42.

A very Good Medcine for a Feaver. By a famous sirgeon; my mother'. Page 42.

Dr Lowers Elixir. My mother'. Page 43.

A Plaister for an Ague. My mother'. Page 43.

For a Consumption. Dr Cox'. Page 44.

A diett Drink for the Evil or to sweeten the Blood. Dr Cox'. Page 44.

A Syrrup for a Cough. Lady Floyer'. Back of page 45.

Wood's Balsom. Mrs Nash'. Back of page 46.

To make Surup of Althea for the Stone. Mrs Short'. Page 47.

Aquamarableis. Lady Sudbury'. Page 48.

To make Bitter Drink without purging. My mother'. Page 48.

Oyle of Charity good for any spraine or Bruise Inwardly or outwardly'. Page 49.

Powder for a thrush in a Childs mouth in the month. My mother'. Page 49.

For one that wastes Inwardly. My mother'. Page 49.

To Make Daffeys Elixir. My mother'. Page 50.

Syrrop for a Cough. My mother'. Page 50.

A Good Bolus for a Fever. My mother'. Page 50.

Scurvy in ye Teeth'. Page 50.

Convulsion Water that is 4 pd if? Quart'. Page 53.

A Brown Salve for the Eyes'. Page 53.

Hysterickal Water'. Page 54.

For a Sore throat recommended by Sergeant Barnard'. Page 54.

For sore eyes. Mrs Backer'. Page 55.

For a Rheumatism. Mrs Taller'. Page 55.

A very good Bitter for the stomach. Mrs Groves'. Page 55.

For the stone or Gravill. Dr Hall'. Page 56.

For the stone or Gravill. This Receipt, Cost, three ginnes'. Page 56.

To make Elder Rob. Mrs Sayer'. Page 57.

For an Ague , or Fever. Mrs Hopfoot'. Page 57.

A very good Bitter for the Stomak'. Page 58.

For a Cough. Mr Short'. Page 58.

Collick Water. Lady Floyer'. Page 58.

For a Cancerous Humour'. Page 59.

for the Eyes'. Page 59.

For an Ague'. Page 60.

For the Green Sickness. Mrs Brome'. Page 60.

For the Stone or Gravell. Dr Chaberlin'. Page 61.

A Gargle for a sore throat and Mouth. Dr Hall'. Page 61.

For a lurking Fever'. Page 61.

1717

DEP/TAH/1/3/4

Notebook 5 of Haldane Tait

Notes on ague; alcoholism; tea; suppedaneous medication; foot washing; applications to feet; and foot medication.

1950s

DEP/WHR/2/38

Insert from the Casebook of Robert Whytt Volume 1: Prescription for ague

Undated. Inserted at p116.

c1749

DEP/WHR/2/40

Insert from the Casebook of Robert Whytt Volume 1: Of the effect of absorbent powders in...

Undated. Inserted at p118.

c1749

DEP/WHR/2/41

Insert from the Casebook of Robert Whytt Volume 1: Case note

Case of Mr Scot of St Anne's Yard with an 'aguish disorder'. Regimen and prescription. Inserted at p118.

1757

DEP/WHR/2/42

Insert from the Casebook of Robert Whytt Volume 1: Prescription for obstinate agues

Undated. Inserted at p118.

c1749

DEP/WHR/2/45

Insert from the Casebook of Robert Whytt Volume 1: Prescription for aguish disorder

Undated. Inserted at p124.

c1749

DEP/WHR/4/10

Case notes of Robert Whytt: Of the rash and military eruptions

General notes on the disease. On the last page is an index to lectures: 1 different fevers; 2 observations on fevers; 3 continued fever John Forbes' case (WHR/4/6); 4 rash or military fever; 5 continued fever Janet Watson's case (WHR/4/6); 6 dysentery; 7 [?] and hectic fevers; 8 small pox (WHR/4/9); 9 Of the disorders of the stomach; 10 tympany; 11 Of the mumps and of inflammation (WHR/4/5); 12 epilepsy (WHR/4/4); 13 ague; 14 measles; 15 dropsy; 16 cough pain of the side and fever Mary Harley (WHR/4/3?); 17 itch; 18 leprosy (WHR/4/3); 19 and 20 obstructed menses and immoderate menses; 21 dysuria and gonorrhoea virulenta; 22 angina and croup; 23 swelled or schirrous liver; 24 deafness and cough; 25 jaundice; 26 cause of fever; 27 ophthalmia; 28 asthma (WHR/4/8); 29 palsy; 30 of the use and action of the bark; 31 hyrdocephalus.

Jan 1760 - 1762

RCP/LAB/3/1/151

Laboratory Superintendent: letter forwarding application from Tebrich, Walter

Letter from Laboratory Superintendent [A G McKendrick] to Secretary of Royal College of Physicians. Letter outlines Tebrich's request to work under Dr McKermack on the 'synthesis of polynuclear of antimalarial activity.' Typed copy of the original request is attached.

21 Oct 1935