| Description Of Item | Glass slides in a box with numbered slots although the numbers on the slides are sometimes different. This list is arranged by the slot numbers with the slide numbers in brackets (where given). 2 - title page of the first Scottish medical book 'Ane Breve Description of the Pest' by Gilbert Skeyne, 1568 ; 3 - list of Scottish universities with dates of foundation (1); 6 - list of early medical books; 7 - title page of A Catalogue of the Plants in the Physical Garden at Edinburgh' by James Sutherland, 1683; 8 - list of physick gardens of Edinburgh with the dates of foundation; 11 - portrait of Robert Sibbald; 12 - portrait of Archibald Pitcairne (10); 14 - photograph of the University of Leyden; 15 - portrait of James Borthwick (17/3); 16 - portrait of Herman Boerhaave; 17 - list of Edinburgh students at Leyden 1659-1707; 19 - portrait of John Thomson (11); 22 - mouse orchestra in the Leyden Anatomy Museum; 23 - Dickson's Close, Edinburgh; 24 - list of professors of surgery at Royal College of Surgeons 1804-1839; 25 - Old College, University of Edinburgh; 26 - list of the Monro medical family (1); 27 - portrait of John Monro 1670-1740 (16); 29 - portrait of Alexander Monro senior (8); 30 - portrait of Alexander Monro secundus by Raeburn (22); 31 - portrait of Alexander Monro tertius by Raeburn (27); 32 - portrait of Monro secundus by Kay (24); 35 - cartoon; 36 - Auchenbowie (21); 37 - Scottish students at Leyden 1610-1776; 39 - capping ceremony McEwan Hall; 41 - tree of Hippocrates, Cos; 44 - newspaper cutting on medical students taking the Hippocratic oath, Edinburgh, 1950; 45 - cartoon of staff at the extra-mural school 1884; 48 - illustration of James Syme; 49 - Hippocrates; 51 - William Turner; 52 - William Cullen; 54 - John Gregory; 55 - Gregory family tree; 57 - Mrs Porter; 58 - A Monro in Leyden student roll; 59 - dates for Joseph Lister's education; 60 - use of antiseptic in Aberdeen, 1880. Includes note of the dates of foundation of Edinburgh medical institutions and a card advertising University of Edinburgh history of medicine classes, 1953. |