| Description Of Item | Chapter headings are: family portraits and pictures; Sir Harold Gengoult Smith - a story of a surprising career; Dr J W Thompson - the village of the blind; some changes in Edinburgh during the last sixty years; the progress of medicine and surgery during the past fifty years; consulting practice in Edinburgh, Scotland during the past sixty years; was he a spy?; the 2nd Scottish General Hospital and the First Great War; the new principal of Edinburgh University; the professorship of medicine; postgraduate developments in Edinburgh; Sir John Thomson Walker and the Fenwicks; Sir Harold Stiles; Sir Norman Walker and the Octogenarians; some recollections of the Parliament House; the future of 23 Drumsheugh Gardens; the last of the general practitioners on the surgical staff of the Royal Infirmary; and the National Hospital as I knew it in 1900. Undated but presumed to be 1945. |