DEP/ALW/1/11 | Speeches by Dr William Alister Alexander | These were originally in a folder labelled 'Speeches'. Speeches given: as a vote of thanks to the Lord Provost, c1944; as the guest of the Royal Medical Society, 1952; on the incorporation of the Edinburgh Dental School into the university, 1948; at the 54th annual meeting of the Haig Ferguson Memorial Home with the 49th and 50th annual reports; possibly when Sir Charles Symonds was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1966; on the membership examinations, undated; to the Watsonian Club; at the Gibson lecture, 1953; to a dinner for life assurance professionals; letters concerning Alexander's invitation to the Sheffield and District Edinburgh University Club annual dinner, 1953; and as the reply to the toast of alma mater at an Edinburgh University dinner with the seating plan. Includes a notes of Sir Donald Pollock's benefactions to the University of Edinburgh, 1953. | c1944-1966 |
DEP/ALW/7/28 | 'Solila' hypodermic needles | Part of the collection of medical instruments collected by William Alister Alexander. Made by the Amalgamated Dental Co Ltd. | 20th century |
DEP/ALW/7/39 | Box for dental and aural instruments | Part of the collection of medical instruments collected by William Alister Alexander. Box labelled 'Super Diagnostic' with velvet lining and compartments for a number of examination devices only five of which are in place. These include two dental mirrors. | 20th century |
DEP/BJW/2/37 | Mounted medical illustrations of John Ballantyne: Illustration of Dr Vargas' case of extra... | Two versions of the same image. | 1890s |
DEP/BOS/4/2/4 | Letter from David Boswell, Midsomer Norton to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh | He writes that he has been unable to contact John Eklund but that the letter he sent to him care of the College contains the copy of the journal as requested. Includes a copy of Boswell's letter to Eklund dated 13th June and a copy of the article 'Ovarian Cyst Containing Teeth and Jaw Bone' by D R Boswell from the British Dental Journal. | 24 Jun 1973 |
DEP/CMS | Collection of the College of Medicine of South Africa | | 23 May 1990 |
DEP/CRW/1/2 | Articles and lectures by William Stuart Craig, numbers 25-52 | Includes speech to Leeds Babies' Welcome Association 6 June 1947; speech to North East Essex Educational Fellowship Refresher Course 1947; speech to Women Public Health Officers Association 8th November 1947 'The Field Worker's Contribution to the Hospital Care of the Sick Child'; 'Observations on Tuberculous Meningitis in Childhood with special reference to early diagnosis' British Medical Journal, 1948; speech to the Yorkshire Association of Medical Women - Some Present Paediatric Problems 9th December 1947; speech to York Medical Society 'Homelessness as a Factor in the Hospital Care of Sick Children' 13th December 1947; address to the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society 'The Home, The Family Doctor and the Hospital in Relation to Child Care' 13th February 1948; address to Chartered Society of Physiotherapists March 10 1948 - Some Aspects of Physical Medicine in Relation to Child Care'; address to Association of Lady Almoners April 1948 'Chronic Respiratory Disease in Childhood'; Address to the Leeds Regional Committee Institute of Almoners 'Social Workers and the Care of Child Life' October 23rd 1948; lecture to Royal College of Midwives 22.11.48 on feeding; 'Some Observations on the Place of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in Paediatric Care' Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation 1948; Child Care in Relation to the Work of a University Department of Paediatrics, Child Care Quarterly Review, 1948; lecture at the Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street 19th April 1948; lecture to Central Council for Health Education 'Physical Care of the Child - the modern outlook' 5th October 1948; 'Meningeal Tuberculosis - bacteriology and pathology' by Agnes R MacGregor, H J R Kirkpatrick and W S Craig, Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1935; 'An Epidemic of Acute Encephalitis in Young Children' by Agnes R MacGregor, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1934; 'The Multiple Puncture Cutaneous Tuberculin Test' Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1931; address in Dublin 'Recent Paediatric Advances', 1945; 'Paediatrics and Child Health' University of Leeds Medical Magazine, 1949; 'Partners in the Care of Child Life and Health' Public Health, 1949; address to Nursery School Association 'Some Medical Aspects of Nursery School Care' 23rd November 1949; address to Leeds University Union Dental Students Society 'Dental Health as a Factor in Paediatric Care' Thursday 8th December1949; Royal Sanitary Institute Section C Maternal and Child Health - presidential address on the Inspiration of Home, 1949; address to British Medical Association meeting Harrogate 'Rheumatoid Arthritis in the Young', 1949; address to Royal College of Midwives 'Clinical Observations in the Nursing and Medical Care of the Neonate' 28th March 1950; address to NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children], 1950; newspaper cuttings from Médecine et Hygiène' 'Où va la pédiatrie?' 1950 with English translation; 'Pink Disease' British Medical Journal, 1950 with amendments; 'The More Common Clinical Methods used in Paediatrics' and 'Peculiarities of Disease in the Child' by Arthur Maitland-Jones revised by W S Craig; address to Royal College of Nursing health visitors on adolescence, 1950; and address to the Royal College of Nursing on Health in the Family Circle, 1950. | 1931-1950 |
DEP/CRW/1/7 | Articles and lectures by William Stuart Craig, numbers 157-180 | Includes inaugural lecture 'Anticipation' to Royal College of Midwives; 'Liveborn baby of diabetic mother - clinical appearance and nursing management' Nursing Mirror; 'Congenital Epulis of the Newborn' by T Talmage Read and W S Craig, Dental Practitioner; 'Pregnancy Complicated by Diabetus Mellitus' by Andrew M Claye and W S Craig, Archives of Disease in Childhood; address 'Changing Emphases' West Riding County Council refresher course for health visitors; address 'Follow-up Care of the Newly-born Baby' to Society of Medical Officers of Health Maternity and Child Welfare Group; 'The Prevention of Handicap' to National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare; address 'Behaviour Disorders' to National Children's Home; reviews of 'Kranke Sauglings' edited by C H Verboom and 'The Physiology of the Newborn Infant' by Clement A Smith; lecture 'Paediatric Advances in Relation to the Health of the School Child' to Institute of Education refresher course; address 'Practising Prevention' to Royal College of Midwives refresher course; 'Reflections on Medical Care of the Newly Born' lecture to medical students in the Paediatric Clinic of the University of Uppsala as part of British Paediatric Association visit to Sweden; review of 'Growing up in Newcastle upon Tyne - a continuing study of health and illness in young children within their families' in the Journal of the Durham Institute of Education; 'Convulsive Movements Occurring in the First Ten Days of Life' Archives of Disease in Childhood; 'Convulsions in the Newborn' British Medical Journal; 'Vomiting in the Early Days of Life' Archives of Disease in Childhood; address 'Prematurity - random reflections' to Royal College of Midwives Hull branch; 'Youth and Age' by W S Craig and Joan M MacKinnon, The Practitioner; review of 'Cerebral Palsy and Related Disorders - a developmental approach to dysfunction' by E Denhoff and I Robinault; 'Radial Palsy Simulating Volkmann's Contracture in a Newly-born Baby' by W S Craig and J M P Clark, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth; address 'Convulsions' to Midwives Refresher Course; 'Neonatal Convulsions' Nursing Mirror; lecture 'Following in the Footsteps of...[Florence Nightingale]' to Refresher Course for Midwives; and 'Some Conditions Causing Mental Deficiency - recent medical advances in treatment' lecture to European League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped. | 1959-1961 |
DEP/HUN | Collection of John Hunter | | c1781-1913 |
DEP/LAT/1/39 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Clinic of Nervous Diseases - Trophesia | Contains 'Mode of Investigating Diseases of the Nervous System'; 'Pathological Products and the nervous system', c1873; 'Trophesia'; and case of nerves of the face. Also includes case note by J R Shaw on spasmodic asthma, 1872; letter from Helen Jardine concerning the case of Captain Jardine, 1869; 'On the variations of excitability in all living tissues' by M Claude Bernard, 1861; 'Clinical notes on oculo-dental affections' by Dr X Galezowski; 'Inflammation depending chiefly on neuro-vascular disorder' by C Handfield Jones, 1867; 'Some account of the operations practised in the nineteenth century for the relief of tension of the eyeball, glaucoma etc' by J Vose Solomon, 1863; 'On the existence of a perivascular canal system in the central organs of the nervous system, and upon its relations to the lymphatic system' by W His; 'On the relation existing between the sense of temperature, the sense of touch, and the sense of pain' by A F Spring; 'Atrophy of the left cerebral hemisphere with atrophy of the arm of the opposite side of the body'; 'Irradiation on symmetrical parts of the opposite side' by F Z Ermerins, 1866; 'Cause of diabetes', 1871; 'On the production of haemorrhage anaemia, oedema and emphysema in the lungs by injuries to the base of the brain' by Dr Brown-Sequard, 1871; 'Gulliver on the blood of vertebrata', 1863; and small cuttings on temperature in convulsions, on sympathetic ophthalmia, changes of the capillaries in cerebral softening and transmission of sense and volition 1864-1868. | 1861-c1873 |
DEP/LAT/1/40 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Degenerations of Nerve-centres - Strumous Diathesis - Goitre and... | In the title the subjects tuberculosis and scrofulosis were crossed out. Contains 'Degeneration of the cerebro-spinal system', c1862; 'Goitre' with pasted cutting on the affect of climate on goitre; and 'Bronchocele'. Also includes 'Goitre and Cretinism in the Bari Dooab, Gurdaspur' from the Indian Medical Gazette, 1873; 'Cretinism'; table of dental extractions, 1864; and small cuttings on cause of goitre, congenital bronchocele, and, in French, epidémie de thyroïdite dans la garnison de Saint-Etienne (epidemic of thyroiditis in the Saint-Etienne garrison). | c1862-1873 |
DEP/MEA/1/4/9 | 'Diet and Dental Health' by Arnold P Meiklejohn | From the Edinburgh Medical Journal. | 1949 |
DEP/MJF/2/4 | Notebook of John Monro: The Public Health Service | From the front of the volume, notes by John Munro on the duties of the Medical Officer of Health and Chief Sanitary Inspector, prevention and control of infectious diseases, maternity and child welfare etc. From the rear of the volume, notes on dental caries and forensic medicine relating to poisoning. Includes typed charts of the structure and administration of the City of Edinburgh Public Health Services and the structure of the National Health Service in Scotland. | 1950s |
DEP/MJF/4/7 | Scottish Hospital Service - Disciplinary Proceedings in Cases relating to Hospital Medical and... | From the collection of John Munro. | Oct 1965 |
DEP/MMV/1/8 | Interview with Violet Spratley by Julia Merrick | Spratley worked at Central Hospital, Hatton. Recording appears to have gaps towards the end. Content - aeroplane crashed in the grounds during the war and patient evacuation; hospital coal wharf; piles of mattresses kept for patient evacuation to lower wards; role of psychologist and social workers (7 minutes); rehabilitation of patients with music and art; recruitment of nurses (9 minutes 40); patients allowed to wear their own clothes (12 minutes); dentistry (14 minutes); formality of relations staff (15 minutes); standards of dress and behaviour of nurses (21 minutes); religion of patients and staff (23 minutes) | c1992 |
DEP/SMC/2/1/64 | File of the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee: Dental Service Sub-Committee (Scotland) | Correspondence between the secretary of the Dental Service Sub-Committee and the Committee. Correspondence concerns qualified medical practitioners who have been called up but work as dental surgeons. | 2 May 1918-4 Feb 1919 |
DEP/SMC/2/1/90 | File of the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee: Glasgow Medical and Dental Defence... | Correspondence concerns the case of Dr James Cook, represented by the Union. | 25 Jul 1916-5 Aug 1916 |
DEP/SMC/2/1/251 | File of the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee: Scottish Office, London | Correspondence concerns the establishment of the Dental Services Committee; application and military regulations; establishment of a Homeopathic service in Glasgow; the affect of the influenza epidemic on medical services; and individual cases. | 15 Sep 1917-12 Feb 1919 |
DEP/SMS/3/58 | Case file of Sydney Smith: Buck Ruxton | Includes dental x-rays; photographs of medico-legal diagrams showing anatomy; medical reports by John Glaister on each body; radiologist's report; forensic reports on items from the crime scene. | Oct 1935 |
DEP/SMS/3/59 | Case file of Sydney Smith: Buck Ruxton | Includes report on special investigations to help identification; dental report; anatomical report; report on analysis of bedlinen; and report by Smith on the remains. | Oct 1935 |