| Description Of Item | Printed papers by Peddie with manuscript annotations and inserts. The printed papers are: 'On Delirium Tremens', 1854; 'The Necessity for Some Legalised Arrangements for the Treatment of Dipsomania', 1858; 'Dipsomania - a proper subject for legal provision', 1860; 'On the Relations of Drink and Insanity' with an article from the British Medical Journal on the necessity of legislation, 1875-1877; The Habitual Drunkards Act 1879, c1885; 'Case of Chronic Empyema', 1850; 'On the Mammary Secretion', 1898; review of Bouchut's 'Treatise on the Diseases of Children', 1849; review of West's 'Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood', 1849; 'On Spinal Apoplexy', 1847 including tabular view of all the cases published; 'Cases Illustrative of the Contagious Nature of Puerperal Fever', 1845; Cases of Poisoning by Fungi', 1868; obituary for Thomas Anderson, 1850; obituary for Henry Scott Anderson, 1890; Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church, 1854 with an article on sending missionaries to Calabar; extract from The Scotsman on the Lunacy Act, 1861; entry on dipsomania for Chamber's Encylopaedia, 1880; review of Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship, 1867;six letters to The Scotsman, 1863-1873; report of his speech on the opening of new wards at the Royal Infirmary, 1879; report of his speech on the amendment of the Lunacy Act, 1861; letters to The Scotsman on the Sinclair Fountain, the new Caldonian Railway Station, proposed City Hall and the centenary of the Edinburgh Subscription Library, 1882-1894; obituary for Heinrich Kuchler, 1873; and obituary for John Brown, 1882.
The manuscript inserts are: letter from George W Balfour thanking Peddie for deposting the library with the College, 1879 (at the front of the volume); three letters from John Brown concerning proofs of his articles, c1848 and letter from J Lumley Earle thanking Peddie for his article On Mammary Secretion, 1862 (inserted before 'On Mammary Secretion'); letter thanking Peddie for his article on puerperal fever (signature illegible), 1895 (inserted after 'Cases Illustrative of the Contagious Nature of Puerperal Fever'); and letter from Andrew Somerville concerning Peddie's article on missionaries, 1854 (inserted after the Missionary Record of the United Presbyterian Church). Photograph of Alexander Peddie on the front flyleaf, 1883. |