DEP/ALW/7/34 | [Diabetes testing tube?] | Part of the collection of medical instruments collected by William Alister Alexander. Enclosed tube with bulbous end and a gauge from 0-60. Labelled 'Diabete 8'. In a cardboard carrying tube. | 20th century |
DEP/ANO/33 | Index to a volume of papers, provenance unknown | The index may be from a bound volume of papers given to a medical society or similar. The list is 'Observations on Phrenitis Vera' by Walter Craufurd; 'Remarks on Ascites' by J Borland; 'Observations on Dyspepsia' by J Rogerson; 'On Hepatitis' by W Cochran; 'Some Observations on Acute Rheumatism' by Robert Sime; 'On Fluor Albus' by William Graham; 'Observations on Small-Pox' by James MacDonald; 'Considerations upon Palsy' by Thomas Addis Emmet; 'On Diabetes' by James Forster; 'On Catarrh' by Adam Mitchell; 'On Pleurisy' by John Barrow; 'On Phthisis Pulmonalis' by J Rutter; 'On Jaundice' by Mr Cassillis Shaw; 'On Cholera' by William Steedman; 'On Hydrothorax' by J Hamming; 'On Chin-cough' by J Towers; 'On Dysentery' by Samuel [Fitt?]; 'On Hypochondriasis' by J Laidlaw; 'On Puerperal Fever' by W Scott; and 'Observation on Menorrhagia' by J Towers. | 1784-1785 |
DEP/CNM/6 | Medical equipment collected by Maurice A Caldwell-Nichols | Includes box for a hypodermic syringe; box for a glass nasal douche; hypodermic syringe for insulin; pocket folding microscope; test tube tongs; and a stainless steel and glass piston. | 1940s |
DEP/CRW/1/6 | Articles and lectures by William Stuart Craig, numbers 135-156 | Includes address 'Paediatric Preview' to University of Cambridge Medical Society; review of 'Unsettled Children and their Families' by D H Stott, Social Service Quarterly, 1957; address 'Care of the Ailing and Premature Newly-born - the Value of Clinical Liaison between District and Hospital Maternity Services' to Association of Supervisors of Midwives; 'Clinical Uncertainties in the Newly-Born - their nursing management' Midwives' Chronicle, 1957; 'Birth Injury' British Journal of Clinical Practice; address 'Sense and Sensibility' to Royal College of Midwives Approved Refresher Course, 1958; review of 'Pediatrics' edited by Donald Paterson; review of 'The Compleat Pediatrician' by W C Davison and Jeana Davison Levinthal; address 'The Premature of Prematurity' to Royal College of Midwives approved refresher course; 'On Summoning Paediatric Aid' Midwives Chronicle; tribute to Dr R L Langley, University of Leeds Review; 'Of Peripheral Nerve Palsies in the Newly Born' by W S Craig and J M P Clark, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire; 'Clinical Signs of Neonatal Tetany with especial reference to their occurrence in newborn babies of diabetic mothers' Pediatrics; 'Hypocalcaemic Tetany Developing Within 36 Hours of Birth' by W S Craig and M F G Buchanan, Archives of Disease in Childhood; 'The Welfare of Children in Hospital' British Medical Journal; lectures 'The Paediatric Management of Emotional and Behaviour Disorders', 'Persistently Recurrent Vomiting Under Six Months', 'Convulsions in the First Two Weeks of Life' given in Norway; 'Norway Social Paediatrics'; review of 'Care of the Premature Infant' by E C Lundeen and R H Kunstadter; 'The Pediatric Management of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders' International Record of Medicine; and 'Changing Emphases in Paediatrics - the challenge of our times' Acta Medica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. | 1956-1960 |
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/CUL/1/2/501 | Letter from Matt [Matthew] Dobson, Liverpool, England to William Cullen | Case of an unnamed male patient with diabetes. | 12 May 1777 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/1345 | Letter from John Heysham, Carlisle, Ireland to William Cullen | Case of the Bishop of Dromore, Ireland. Also asks whether Cullen will produce his work on diabetes soon as he also has an unnamed female patient with it. | 25 Jul 1783 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/1355 | Letter from John Heysham, Carlisle, England to William Cullen | Case of Master Leveck, a boy, deaf since scarlet fever on whom Heysham would also like Monro's opinion. He also writes that he encloses the Bills of Mortality (not included); asks for Cullen's comments on the case of Ann Liddle; and reports on his diabetes case. | 9 Aug 1783 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/1399 | Letter from Ja [James] Currie, Liverpool, England to William Cullen | Case of Mr Howard and report on progress of Mr Yates. He also comments on experiments by Dr Dobson in Bath on diabetes and the College of Manchester. | 17 Oct 1783 |
DEP/CUL/5/5 | 'First Lines on the Practice of Physic for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh... | Part II - 'Of Neuroses or Nervous Diseases' contains: Book I 'Of Comata' consisting of two chapters: 'Of Apoplexy' and 'Of Palsy'; Book II 'Of Adynamiae or Diseases consisting in a weakness or loss of motion in either the vital or natural functions' consisting of three chapters: 'Of Syncope or fainting', 'Of dyspepsia or indigestion' and 'Of hypochondriasis or the hypochondriac affection commonly called Vapours or Low Spirits'; Book III - 'Of Spasmodic Affections' consisting of 14 chapters: 'Of tetanus', 'Of Epilepsy', 'Of the chorea or danse of St Vitus', 'Of the spasmodic affections of the vital functions', 'Of the Palpitation of the Heart', 'Of Dyspnoea or difficult breathing', 'Of Asthma', 'Of the chincough or hooping cough', 'Of the spasmodic affections of the natural functions', 'Of the pyrosis or what is named in Scotland the water brash', 'Of the colic', 'Of the cholera', 'Of diarrhoea or looseness', 'Of the diabetes', 'Of hysteria or the hysteric disease' and 'Of canine madness and hydrophobia'. No annotations. | 1783 |
DEP/CUL/5/6 | 'First Lines on the Practice of Physic for the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh... | Part II - 'Of Neuroses or Nervous Diseases' contains: Book III 'Of Spasmodic Affections' consisting of chapters 8-14: 'Of the pyrosis or what is named in Scotland the water brash', 'Of the colic', 'Of the cholera', 'Of diarrhoea or looseness', 'Of the diabetes', 'Of hysteria or the hysteric disease' and 'Of canine madness and hydrophobia'; Book IV 'Of Vesaniae or the disorders of the intellectual functions' consisting of three chapters: 'Of Vesaniae in general', 'Of Mania or Madness' and 'Of Melancholy and other forms of Insanity'. Part II - 'Of Cachexies' contains: 'Book I 'Of Emaciations'; 'Book II 'Of Intumescentiae or general swellings' consisting of four chapters: 'Of Adipose Swellings', 'Of Flatulent Swellings', 'Of Watery Swellings or dropsies', 'Of General Swellings arising from an increased bulk of the whole substance of particular parts' and 'Of Rachitis or rickets'. Index to the four volumes at the rear. | 1784 |
DEP/DLS/2/3 | [Notes for the use of staff at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh by Professor Leybourne Stanley... | A label on the front of the volume reads 'Contents - Dietetic Treatment of - Diabetes Mellitus, Diseases of the Alimentary Tract, Diseases of the Liver and Gall Bladder, Diseases of the Kidney and Urinary Tract, Gout and the Chronic Rheumatic Diseases, Obesity and Leanness including anorexia nervosa, Cardio-vascular disease, infectious diseases'. | 1930s |
DEP/EAM/1/2 | Correspondence between Hugh Trowell and Martin Eastwood | Includes letter from Trowell requesting a copy of Eastwood's article in the Lancet, 1969, on the role of fibre in reducing serum cholesterols and for his data on the diet of Trappist monks (11th January 1972); Trowell's articles 'Dietary Fibre and Coronary Heart Disease' and 'Dietary Fibre, Ischaemic Heart Disease and Diabetes Mellitus'; discussion of the definition of fibre (7th February 1972); Eastwood's description of his current work on bile acid metabolism (14th February 1972); Trowell's talk to the Atherhosclerosis Discussion Group on lignin for which he borrowed Eastwood's slides (6th March-16th March 1972); the Nutrition Society's symposium on fibre (20th March 1972); Eastwood's classification of plant material from a nutritional point of view into three groups (15th March 1973); analysis of fibre content of different foods (17th July 1974); Trowell's article 'From Normotension to Hypertension in Kenyans and Ugandans 1928-1978'; BBC film for Horizon on fibre (3rd February 1975); Trowell's article 'Food and Dietary Fibre' for a lecture given in Stockholm (8th August 1976); copy of Trowell's letter to The Lancet on salt and hypertension, 1980; and draft letter to the editors of Athersclerosis on crude fiber, dietary fiber and athersclerosis | 11 Jan 1972-1980 |
DEP/GIR/6/12 | 'The Care of the Surgical Diabetic' by A Rae Gilchrist and W T Ritchie | Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal. | Apr 1930 |
DEP/GJO/4/3 | Student notes by unknown individual from lectures of John Gregory on the practice of physic | The volume covers gout, alvi fluxus, diabetes, dysuria, ischuria, palsy, syncope, asphyxia, apoplexy, tetanus, epilepsy, chorea, hiccup, hysteria, asthma, headache, cholic, hypochondriases, mania, cachexies and ascites. Index at rear. | 1768-1769 |
DEP/HAJ/1/27 | Letter to James Hamilton from John Ford, Chester | He asks Hamilton about his use of the new word florcitation; gives permission for the passage Hamilton quoted in his letter (see HAJ/1/25); quotes from a letter from Dr Rutter of Liverpool; gives details of his treatment of Sir Henry Grey; and gives details of his treatment of Mr Reed of Knightsbridge for diabetes. | 4 Mar 1806 |
DEP/HTW/2/5/3 | Letter from James Jeffray, Edinburgh, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He promises to get a copy of the lectures to him which will cost him 9d a lecture. He reports having seen a leg cut off in the 'new method - the conic section' and Dr Gregory curing a case of diabetes. He asks for Hamilton's opinion on an essay of his on the structure of the placenta which will do him no good as 'it is rather against Dr Monro' and goes into details of his thesis. Transcript available. | 30 May 1783 |
DEP/KWS/1/2/21 | Case of narcolepsy | From the collection of Samuel Kinnier Wilson. Graph of blood sugar curve. | 19 May 1927 |
DEP/KWS/1/5/5 | Envelope labelled 'Zoster Neuritis Tabes Facial Spasm - some photos have been selected' | From the collection of Samuel Kinnier Wilson. Printed envelope addressed to the Whitefriars Press. Photographs of patients. Most are captioned. Conditions named are zoster, herpes, causalgia, diabetic gangrene and tabetic ulcer. | 1915 - 1933 |
DEP/KWS/3/1/10 | Letter to Samuel Kinnier Wilson from R D Lawrence, Pathological Department, King's College Hospital | He writes concerning the case of a diabetic patient with micropsia and insulin hypoglycaemia. | 21 Jan 1929 |