| Description Of Item | Includes envelope (now in a folder) titled 'RCS [Royal College of Surgeons] Edinburgh - Surgeon Square, RCS Edinburgh (review of Cresswell's book), barber surgeons of Edinburgh, Sir John de Medina (portrait painter)' which includes programme of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland annual meeting, 1948, 'The Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh' by Sir Henry Wade, 1949; newspaper cuttings about the Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh 1961-1967; menu for dinner in honour of the opening of the Lister Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, 1967.
Also, previously loose in the box: various articles on medicine in Edinburgh including three booklets on the history of the Edinburgh Medical School by Douglas Guthrie and Robert Aitken; 'Looking Back' by John Chiene, 1908; 'The Bramwells and Neurology in Edinburgh' by B Ashworth, 1981; article from Prism, the magazine of the American Medical Association on Edinburgh medical history, 1975; 'The Livingstone Medical Mission, Cowgate' by F O Lasbrey, with cuttings on the new family doctor centre to use the building, 1936-1959; 'Pharmacy and Medicine in old Edinburgh' by C G Drummond, 1953; 'The Medical School of the Future' by John Struthers, 1896; 'Alexander Monro Primus' edited by H D Erlam, 1954; cuttings on medical research being done in Edinburgh; notebook on The Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers by R Scott Moncrieff; articles on Sighthill Health Centre, 1953-1972; article in Ciba Zeitschrift on medical education in Edinburgh, 1948; typed notes comparing medical services under the poor law and from 1930-1948; 'The Chairs of Surgery at Edinburgh' by David Simpson; typed essay by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia on 18th century American medical graduates of the University of Edinburgh and their theses, 1958; articles by S Selwyn on hospital cross-infection; 'A Student's Notebook of James Syme's Class of Clinical Surgery in 1861-2' by Charles McNeil, 1952; and Laws of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 1958. |