Case histories.
Subject
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Scope Note: Accounts of the chronological development of cases of disease or conditions of individuals, with details of symptoms.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Case histories and lecture notes chiefly by Henry Robert Oswald., 1797-1812, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9001
Scope and Contents
The case histories extend over the period 1797-1812. Many cannot be dated exactly and it is unlikely that those dated 1797 and 1802 are the work of Oswald but they may have belonged to one of the partners in the firm of Bell, Wardrop, Russell, and Co., apothecaries and surgeons in Edinburgh, to whom Oswald was apprenticed, 1807-1810. These are followed (folio 100) by medical and diagnostic notes, including recorded observations of a disease prevalent amongst the children of the poor in the...
Dates:
1797-1812, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
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Papers of Henry Robert Oswald.
Commonplace-book of Sir John Wedderburn, physician (1599-1679)., 2nd half of 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6504
Scope and Contents
Sir John Wedderburn was a doctor of note and served both Charles I and Charles II as a royal physician. This volume contains miscellaneous material of the late seventeenth century some of which is of much interest. There are copies of poems, chiefly by John Donne (folio 3-90 verso, passim); on these, see "A new manuscript of Donne's poems" by Alan MacColl. Important medical material is unfortunately small in quantity. Sir John Wedderburn bought Gosford in 1659 for his favourite nephew, Sir...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Correspondence and papers concerning the insanity of Colonel Alexander Ranaldson Macdonnell of Glengarry in Vienna., 1800-1801.
File
Identifier: MS.11263
Scope and Contents
These include letters of Colonel Macdonnell, his relatives, and his physicians, medical opinions and certificates, and accounts.
Dates:
1800-1801.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Diplomatic correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto relating to Vienna.
Legal papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., 1749-1793, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24592
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Papers relating to individual cases, 1750-1793, undated (folio 1); (iij Papers on legal principles and miscellaneous notes, 1749-1766, undated (folio 88).
Dates:
1749-1793, undated.
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
File
Identifier: MS.50263
Scope and Contents
A recipe for gunpowder (folio i).Case notes, 1729-1730, possibly written at Glasgow Infirmary (folios 1-19).Sketch financial accounts and copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to Normand MacLeod, Daniel MacLeod and John Nicolson concerning the export of linen and import of tobacco, sugar and rum between New England, Glasgow and the Western Isles (folios 20-28).Copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to unnamed relatives concerning emigration from the...
Dates:
1729-1759.
Papers of Henry Robert Oswald., 1797-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9001-9003
Dates:
1797-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.