DEP/ALW/4/2 | Class tickets and certificates of attendance of William Alister Alexander | The certificates were awarded by the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Local Government Board, Edinburgh City Hospital for Infectious Disease and Glasgow Maternity and Women's Hospital for forensic medicine, surgery, public health, public vaccination, clinical medicine, diseases of the skin, mental diseases, diseases of the ear nose and throat, practical anaesthetics, diseases of the eye, medicine, clinical surgery, midwifery and gynecology, materia medica, practical pathology, practical materia medica including pharmacy, anatomy, practical chemistry, physics, elementary botany, physiology, practical histology, zoology, and acting as clinical clerk and attending the hospital. | 1908-1912 |
DEP/ANO/13 | [Description of narcotics], author unknown | Unbound paper. The paper starts with a description of astringency, tonics, stimulants and narcotics then gives more description of narcotics. This description has sections on ether, camphor and opium, with a list of the uses of opium in various diseases. Undated but paper watermarked 1815. Originally with ANO/16. | c1815 |
DEP/ANO/39 | Women's offering to the Royal Maternity Hospital in memory of James Young Simpson | This section contains 17 blank sheets on which signatures and subscriptions of women were to be placed in support of the building of a new maternity hospital at Edinburgh. The offering was done in memory of James Young Simpson, developer of chloroform as an anaesthetic, who during his life spoke of the need of a maternity hospital. Included also is a short list of names and monetary amounts, presumably donations, and two copies of an explanation of the offering signed by an [MJ?], secretary (possibly of the Committee of the Memorial to Sir James Young Simpson). | Mar 1877 |
DEP/ANO/51 | Medical notebook, author unknown | Contains notes and sketches on topics such as infant feeding, anaesthetics, ophthalmology.
Contains some loose notes, including notepaper for Guy's Hospital, London, and Hull Hospital for Women. | 1917-1948 |
DEP/CNM | Collection of Maurice A Caldwell-Nichols | | early 20th century-c1950 |
DEP/CNM/2 | [Maurice A Caldwell-Nichols] anaesthetics records | Record of patients undergoing general surgery. The first record gives the patient's name, abbreviation for the type of anaesthetic and the type of operation 1943-1946. At the end of the entries is a signature by the Shetley Bride [?] Emergency Hospital Resident Surgical Officer confirming the list. This is followed by a list for the Blythe Memorial Hospital signed by H Hudson, sister 1946; and the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle 1951-1952. From the rear the volume gives the number of operations involving the Radiotherapy Department 1943-1946. | Feb 1943-Sep 1952 |
DEP/CNM/3/7 | Certificates of personal administration of anaesthetic issued to Maurice Caldwell-Nichols | Issued by the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Medicine. It gives the date, operation, anaesthetic used and duration of the operation. Originally in a binder labelled 'Abnormal Cases Dec 16th 1836 to Jan 20th 1937 Maternity Cases Section B Spring 1937'. | 1942 |
DEP/CNM/5 | Laboratory glassware collected by Maurice A Caldwell-Nichols | Includes flasks; jar labelled sulphuretted hydrogen in glycerine; jar labelled hydrochloric acid; jar labelled chloroform; pipettes; petri dishes etc. | 1940s |
DEP/CUH | Collection of Harvey Cushing | | 20 Nov 1909-29 Jun 1927 |
DEP/FOU/3/8 | 'Mechanical Impediment to Respiration during Anaesthesia' by James Foulis | Reprinted from the British Medical Journal. | 1898 |
DEP/FOU/5/2 | Tribute to chloroform illustration [by James Foulis] | Done in the style of a coat of arms with a bottle of chloroform flanked by two babies. | 1860s-1870s |
DEP/GID | Collection of David Gibb | | 1861-1862 |
DEP/GID/1 | Student notes of David Gibb from lectures of James Young Simpson on anaesthesia at the University... | Title as given on volume is 'Lectures on Anaesthesia by James Young Simpson MD FRCPE Professor of Midwifery - delivered during the session by David Gibb - University of Edinburgh Session 1861-62'. The volume is not divided into individual lectures. Front flyleaf is signed by Sir James Young Simpson. | 1861-1862 |
DEP/GIJ/3 | James Gifford x-ray of a frog, dorsal aspect | Label on reverse reads 'Electrographed by J W Gifford of Chard. Frog under chloroform legs held out by cotton. Apparatus used: hand dynamo, yielding 10 volts, 15 amperes, 10 inch spark coil by apps. Radiant matter tube by Mr C Baker. Exposure 1 minute.' | 15 Mar 1896 |
DEP/GIJ/4 | James Gifford x-ray of a dog's paw, alive | Label on reverse reads 'Electrographed by J W Gifford of Chard. Living dog's paw, no chloroform used. Apparatus used: hand dynamo, yielding 10 volts, 15 amperes, 10 inch spark coil by apps. Radiant matter tube by Mr C Baker. Exposure 1 minute.' | 15 Mar 1896 |
DEP/KWS/8/12 | Notes on poliomyelitis and artificial respiration Alexander Kinnier Wilson | Includes an article by Samuel Kinnier Wilson 'The Aetiology and Treatment of Acute Poliomyelitis' from The Lancet January 1928; memorandum on poliomyelitis produced by the government, 1952; 'Acute Respiratory Infections in Emphysema' by T Simpson, British Medical Journal, 1954 (with annotations); 'Pulmonary Ventilation During Anaesthesia' by Eastwood and Harbord, sent at Kinnier Wilson's request, 1955; 'Laboratory investigations during treatment of patients with poliomyelitis and respiratory paralysis' by Astrup, Gotzche and Neukirch, British Medical Journal, 1954 with annotations; 'Muscle Paralysis in Poliomyelitis' by W J W Sharrard, 1957; Histological Examination of Poliomyelitis Vaccine Safety-Test Monkeys - methods used at Biological Standards Control Laboratory, Hampstead, 1956; Gallocyanin Staining Method - Biological Standards Control Laboratory, Hampstead, 1956; and plan of parts of a respirator by Fenlow Products Ltd, 1957. | 1952-1957 |
DEP/LAT/1/38 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Cerebrospinal neuroses - Aesthesiae - Neuralgia - Special Spinal... | Contains 'Sensory Cerebrospinal neuroses'; 'Special Spinal Neuralgia', 1856; 'Spinal Neuralgia in General' with pasted cutting on cutaneous absorption; 'Spinal Vascular Neuralgia'; and loose notes on headache cases.
Also includes letter from J Barbour, Lockerbie concerning a female patient with neuralgia, 1875; and case note of Mr Shaw, 1866.
Also includes a quantity of press cuttings including 'On some of the reflex irritations resulting from uterine disease' by Dr Churchill, 1861; 'the Diseases of Women' by James Young Simpson, 1859; 'Capricious Sporadic Oculo-Facial Paralysis' by Dr Lyons, c1866; 'Neuroma on branch of the extreme cutaneous nerve of the thigh' case note by Mr Bryant, 1862; 'Case of neurom of the sciatic nerve' by Mr Paget, 1862; 'Case of General Neuralgia' by M Valleix, 1851; 'Report on toxicology, forensic medicine and hygiene' by Benjamin W Richardson, 1875; 'Dr Richardson on chloral hydrate', 1871; 'On the uses of the bromides' by Dr G de Gorrequer Griffith; 'Remarks on Myopy' by Dr Follin, 1865; 'Counter-irritation with tincture of iodine in neuralgia' by M Bouchut, 1865; 'The Application of Electricity to Medicine', 1871; 'On neuralgia relieved by the internal use of aconite' by S O Habershon, 1862; 'Clinical Data respecting amaurosis more especially respecting that form of it supposed to be induced by tobacco' by Jonathan Hutchinson, 1863; 'Faradization and Galvanism' by W H Sandham, 1866; and small cuttings on recurrent sensibility in a divided nerve, cure of headache by compression of temporal arteries, symptoms induced by collections of indurated cerumen in the ear, case of multiple neuromata, effects of opium and sulphate of quina, gelatinised chloroform, hereditary amaurosis, preparations of narceia, case of cervico-brachial neuralgia and two articles in French from Gazete Medicale de Paris, 1864-1872. | 1851-1875 |
DEP/LAT/1/45 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Illusions - Hallucinations - Sleep - Dreams | Contains 'Illusions - Hallucinations - Delusion - Cognitive Phrenesis' with an extract from a textbook on morbid imaginations and morbid institutions; 'Imagination and Hallucinations'; 'Sleep - Dreaming and Sleeplessness'; a bibliography for hallucination; and loose notes on illusions, travelling priests, a Chaldean astrologer in Greece and an Egyptian prophet. Also includes case notes for patients with hallucinations 1864-1870; letter from F W Conner to Professor Laycock complaining of the voices he hears, 1873; letter to the editors of the Daily Telegraph from someone with the delusion of being able to separate body and spirit; letter from Dr Robert Elliot enclosing letters from Robert Robinson, a patient with insomnia, 1871; 'On dreaming considered especially in relation to insanity' by Thomas More Madded, 1867; review of 'From Matter to Spirit', 1863; and small cuttings on dreams, anaesthetics, religious illusion etc 1861-1874. | 1861-1874 |
DEP/MJF/3/29 | [Notes by John Munro on general anaesthesia] | Includes section on the alimentary canal, purgatives and diarrhoea. | 1950s |
DEP/PAT/1 | Notebook of Joy Paterson | Filofax-style notebook containing notes on medical subjects including: coma, burns, anaesthetics, cocaine, poisoning, head injuries. Also includes College membership examination instructions for Paterson. | [1962] |