| Description Of Item | Notes by Douglas Guthrie from various works, printed articles and copies of Guthrie's own work. Index at the front with the subjects: memorial presented by Andrew Duncan senior on medical jurisprudence; obituary of David Lees; notice from The Scotsman on the first chemical journal; St Katherine's Well, Edinburgh; Philip Syng; Ephraim McDowell; Nathan Smith; puerperal fever and Oliver Wendell Holmes; Nathan S Davis; William Beaumont; William Harvey; Rene Laennec; historical notes on appendicitis; John Bunyan, neurologist; George Crile - his contribution to surgery; effects of blast in 1812; forces behind specialism in surgery - Victor Bonney; anatomy at Barber's Hall; penicillin - pronunciation; gardens; facsimiles of plague papers; Van Helmont's science and medicine; Chinese medicine; reviews of books on the history of medicine; poem on exophthalmic goitre; Sir Humphrey Rolleston; Giovanni Philippo Ingrassias; Harvey Cushing's books at Yale; King James II of Scotland of the firey face; obituary of Arnold Klebs; Parkes Weber; William Henry Welch; obituary on Dawson of Penn; history of tissue staining; Johann Peter Frank; history of gastric ulcer; address on man's re-education; address on clinical instinct in diagnosis; address on technique of teaching; 'The Spirit of Leisure and the Spirit of Work' by James Dawson; 'Methods and Purpose of Diagnosis' by Sir Henry Cohen; the Joseph Brennemann Library; Sergeant Surgeon John Knight; copy of the British Medical Journal, 1947 produced during a printers' strike; notes from 'Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England' by Oswald Cockayne; Royal Dick Veterinary College; note on dermatology as a specialty; notes on aseptic surgical techniques; 'A Case of Luxatio Erecta'; 'A Voice from the Grandstand' by Sir Auckland Geddes; and 'Some Ideals and the Business of Healing' by Edwin Bramwell. |