| Description Of Item | From the papers of Richard Poole. Each item is numbered and the contents list at the front relates to each number. Includes recommendation by King Charles I to the Privy Council anent the differences between the surgeons and physicians in Edinburgh, 1634; error regarding Dr Dalrymple's name in the list of fellows, 1694; minute on how long a licentiate should study before being licensed, 1684; memoranda regarding Sir Robert Sibbald; memoranda on editions of the Pharmacopoeia; memoranda regarding Dr Cullen and his letter to Dr Hunter, 1751; resolution on bills of mortality, 1791; extract from the New Statistical Account of Scotland on mortality, 1835; Utilitas Diplomatum Civilis in Mr Small's hand; remarks on librarian and library; essays by Hippocrates on surgery; memoranda respecting decreet of separation between the apothecaries and the surgeons; references to Bowyer's History of the University of Edinburgh, 1705; extract from the Scots magazine on College service in the Infirmary, 1752; and salary of the medical attendants of the Aberdeen Infirmary, 1838. |