| Description Of Item | Includes notices and postcards advertising University of Edinburgh history of medicine lectures, 1948-1971; and synopses of history of medicine lectures by Douglas Guthrie on the history of medical history, c1956: the medical man in literature; anaesthesia, antiseptics, antibiotics; a selection of medical classics; medicine becomes anatomical; some aphorisms of Hippocrates; the way of the investigator; medical education in Scotland; nutrition in the 18th century; primitive magic and present-day belief; prehistoric and primitive medicine; vocation and avocation; Egyptian, Greek and Roman medicine; Arabian and Medieval medicine; health hints from Salerno; medicine of the Renaissance period; the daily round in time of plague; 18th century medicine; nutrition in the 18th century; naval and military medicine in history; closed treatment of compound fracture in the pre-antiseptic days; great epidemics of history; medicine in literature; the art of medicine; primitive and Egyptian medicine; value of history in medicine; chemistry from alchemy to atoms; teacher and student in medical education; simple herbs and synthetic remedies; geographical factor in history; mechanical view of life; science of retrospection; magic witchcraft and medicine; Imhotep and the Dawn of Medicine, Hippocratic oath, Hippocrates and medical ethics, Avicenna and medieval medicine, medicine becomes anatomical, Paracelsus and his followers, Peter Lowe and Scottish surgery, Pasteur the rise of bacteriology; discoveries in medicine; medicine in the middle ages; witches and witch-doctors; and Greek Medicine.
Programmes of the International Hippocratic Foundation of Cos, 1960-1961; reprints from the American Association of the History of Medicine, including the constitution, 'The Teaching of Medical History in the United States and Canada' by Genevieve Miller and programmes for annual meetings 1951-1971; 'The Study of Medical History in India' by Lt Col B L Raina, 1950; 'West and East Must Meet' by Dr P Gurusironmani; programmes for BBC broadcasts to schools 1954-1960; programme of a conference on the teaching of medical history at John Hopkins University, 1954; printed biographies of medical figures; first annual report of Yale University Department of the History of Medicine, 1952; notice of seminar at University of Edinburgh on the early hospitals of Islam, 1982; 'Some Historical Aspects of Chest Pain' by P I Frank, 1973; copy of Tait's lecture on the Rise and Development of the Edinburgh Medical School with correspondence and cuttings on the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons conference, 1957-1969; 'The Perth Dispensers' by Ian Porter 1973; synopsis of Douglas Guthrie's lecture on early Scottish medicine to the Society for the History of Medical Science, Los Angeles, 1954; Aberdeen's Contribution to the Progress of Medicine by Douglas Guthrie, 1946; The First Roman Book of Medicine by John Dixon Comrie, 1922; notice for lecture by Alvin Riggs, Fulbright Scholar in Medical History, 1960; The Elderly in History by J A MacDougall, 1970; synopsis of the Honyman Gillespie lecture on the Three Alexander Monros, 1954; proposal by Dr M Borell for a course on the history of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, 1978; notes by Tait on the Augustinian House of St Anthony, Leith; and notice of seminars in the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1986. Envelope (now folder) titled 'International Congresses of History of Medicine' programmes, 1930-1959 |