Keyword search: Diabetes in the College Collections First experiments on pancreas secretions Johan Conrad von Brunner (1653-1727) Experimenta nova circa pancreas. Accedit diatribe de lympha & genuino pancreatis usu Lugduni Batavorum, 1709 Johan Brunner, a Swiss anatomist,... Read more Scurvy in the College Collections In 1753 James Lind published an account of a planned clinical experiment on the effects of citrus fruits on scurvy. This experiment was to change the course of history. ... Read more The Science Behind Murder: The Sydney Smith Collection Long handled axes, rusted kitchen knives and a homemade cosh are just some of the weapons that make up the collection of Sir Sydney Smith; a collection recently catalogued... Read more Hogarth and the Art of Alcohol Abuse Gin cursed Friend, with Fury fraught, Makes human race a Prey; It enters by a deadly Draught, And steals our Life away. Virtue and Truth, driv'n to... Read more Physical Examination and Diagnosis in the College Collections Diagnosis by urine examination Judicium urinarum This manuscript is the oldest purely medical manuscript in the College collections. It dates from the late 1400s. Before the era of... Read more Epilepsy in the College Collections Pioneer in the surgical treatment of epilepsy William Alexander (1844-1919) The Treatment of Epilepsy Edinburgh, 1889 William Alexander worked as a surgeon in Liverpool’s Royal Southern Hospital and the Brownlow... Read more Anton Mesmer and his Animal Magnetism In the latter part of the eighteenth century Anton Mesmer claimed to have discovered a 'universal fluid' manipulation which could be used to treat almost all diseases. He called... Read more Celtic Medical Treatments Folk Medicine Beliefs about health and disease are seldom unique to one society, for they tend to pass from one community to another by word of mouth and the tales... Read more Hereditary Physicians in Celtic Medicine By the Middle Ages, Celtic social life was primarily organised on the clan system of lineage-based groups owning and occupying a particular territory. Clansmen were usually kinsmen of their... Read more The Eighteenth Century Dispensary Movement The College is undertaking a project to catalogue, digitise and make available online our collection of the patient records of Edinburgh's Public Dispensary, established in 1776. To put this... Read more New Acquisition: Medico-Chirurgical Club The club had its origins in 1822, in a contest for the position of physician at Edinburgh's New Town Dispensary. At that time individuals were selected for the position... Read more A History of Aviation Medicine Robert Boyle (1627-1691) New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects. Oxford: H. Hall for Tho: Robinson, 1662 Physicist, physiologist, chemist, and philosopher, Boyle was one... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page
