| Description Of Item | It is probable that the volume was primarily a list of patients as that forms the majority of the information. Duncan used the spare pages for other notes. Includes:
p1 & 11- continuation of a copy of a letter to Mr Wigham; details following of a committee at the Sheriff Clerk's office on the Royal Infirmary attended by Duncan 10th February 1818
pp2-3 - account of jargonelle pears from St Leonard's Garden 1803-1808 and other produce obtained in 1808 from his garden of 'one million and an half square metres' including an 'innumerable crop of weeds and not a few caterpillars'; note of the death of Hugo Arnot of Balcormo and his estate
p4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 onwards - list of patients, giving their address but no details of diseases 1801-1813
p5-7 - sale of produce; dates of election to Speculative Society 1770-1799; girth of trees, 1815
p9 - poem to the first of May, 1815
p13, 15 - account of antiquarian research done by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes on lewd passages in Latin later translated by Hugo Arnot with quotations
p17 - epitaph for Dr Duncan senior read at a meeting of the Aesculapian Club, 2nd December 1826
The contemporary page numbering stops at p11. The notes also start from the rear of the volume:
- directions or lists of addresses (these occur throughout)
- list of applicants for clinical clerk, 1803-1809
- students and gentlemen with letters of introduction 1801-1826 including their lodgings
- memorandum respecting the influenza of 1803
- list of recipients of copies of observations on phthisis
- evidence from Virgil that the Romans knew about grafting trees
- list of public libraries to be presented with copies of the History of the College of Edinburgh
- prescriptions by Dr Cleghorn for Sir Simon Clarke
- copies of Macaronics sent to the Prince of Wales
- quotation for 'my own tombstone'
- list of clergy receiving the newspaper article on the busts of Blair and McLaurin
- list for Dr Blair's monument
- list of possible recipients of a discourse to the Horticultural Society, 1815-16, 1821
- list of signatories to a letter to Sir William Fettes
- account of an attack on the management of the Royal Infirmary by Mr Wigham, 5th October 1818
- A Theory of the peculiar quality of easterly winds by Admiral Philip Patton
- list of recipients of copies of the Life of Dr Monro secundus |