ANONYMA |
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ACCOUNTS |
1. |
Doctors' account book. c.1682-92 fol.
In various hands. |
ALCHEMY |
2. |
Alchemical works. 6 vol. [16th and
17th cent.] fol. & 4o.
Collected by Sir George Erskine of Invertile, and probably partly
written by him. Presented by his grandson, John Mackenzie, Earl of
Cromarty, 1707. Comprising many famous alchemical works, e.g:
ARNOLD, de Villanova: Liber Rosarii.
BLOMFELD, William: A treatise of alchemy.
NORTON, Thomas: The ordinale of alchemy.
RIPLEY, George: The compounde of alchemy.
ROUILLACH, Philippe: Traite du grand oevre de la pierre des philosophes.
Partly in French and Latin. |
3. |
Alchemical tract, entitled Turba Philosophorum.
1549 [1599?] 4o.
Inner cover reads: "Hunc librum Regio Collegio Medicorum apud
Edinburgum gratis donavit Thomas Houissine, Natura curiosus, primo
Ianuarij 1708." Flyleaf (recto) dated 1549 [or possibly 1349??]
Flyleaf (verso) reads: "Dominus Johannes Napier Baro: Mirabilis,
Marchi-stone, Scotus, vixit, nec non scripsit, 1599." |
See also: |
Italian Poetry
Erskine mss Index |
CASEBOOKS |
4. |
Unidentified casebook. 1640-41 fol. |
5. |
Fragment of an unidentified casebook.
[18th century] 8o. |
6. |
Casebooks. 2 vol. [Edinburgh] c.1776-78
8o.
Bookplate of S [or J] Hunt. |
CHEMISTRY |
7. |
Institutiones chemicae. [Unidentified
chemical lectures.] [c.1730-40?] 4o. |
CHOLERA |
8. |
Daily returns of cholera cases which occurred in
Edinburgh and its neighbourhood. 2 vol. Edinburgh 1832, 1848-49.
obl. 4o. |
See also: |
John Abercrombie ms collection
W P Alison ms collection
D M Moir Cholera papers, ms collection |
COMMONPLACE BOOKS |
9. |
Unidentified commonplace books. 7 vol.
[Edinburgh c.1770?] small 8o.
Including part of Thomas Young's lectures on obstetrics. |
10. |
Unidentified commonplace book consisting
mainly of notes and extracts from books on natural history. [Edinburgh,
after 1825] 4o.
Includes a passage from Alibert's "Physiologie des passions
", 1825. |
CURSOR MUNDI |
11. |
Fragments of the MS known as the Cursor
Mundi. 50 leaves and 5 very small fragments. 14th century, 4o.
Presented by Dr John Drumrnond, President of the Royal College of
Physicians of Edinburgh, 1722-27, in 1741. Consists of a homiletic
poem on various religious subjects, written in different hands, and
probably at different times, in double column, with about 45 lines
per column. The text is reprinted in "English Metrical Homilies
from MSS of the 14th century", by John Small, Edinburgh, 1862,
and in "Cursor Mundi", edited by Richard Morris for the
Early English Text Society, vol III, London, 1892. |
DISPENSATORIES |
12. |
Medical receipts for balsams, elixirs
and collik waters. 1717 8o.
Flyleaf inscribed: "Mary Sayer - December the - 12 - 1717". |
13. |
Medical receipts book. [Edinburgh c.1750?]
8o. |
14. |
Unidentified dispensatory. Edinburgh
c.1803 8o.
May be by Francis Home. |
15. |
Unidentified dispensatory. Edinburgh
c.1821 8o. |
HYPOCHONDRIAC DISEASES |
16. |
An essay on the hypochondriac disease,
in a letter. [Edinburgh c.1775-1800?] 4o. |
INSANITY |
17. |
Bruised reeds. [Water-colour drawings
of mental cases, each portrait accompanied by a description of
age, behaviour, etc.] [Edinburgh?] 1882 8o.
Presented by Dr Stuart MacDonald.
Seems to be a close copy of a volume in Edinburgh University Library,
Special Collections, Lothian Health Service, Royal Edinburgh Hospital,
Thomas Clouston Papers. Their volume has the monogram "J.M."
/ "M. J." |
ITALIAN POETRY |
18. |
Extracts from the Italian Poetry, Sonnets,
Triumphs, Odes etc. [c.1775-1800?] 8o. |
18.1 |
Italian poetry from Alchemy manuscript. |
LECTURE NOTES/COMMENTARY? |
18a. |
Notes on fevers, in Latin and English. [c.1750-1800?] |
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Found in an attic near Kelso. Donated by Dr I D
Donaldson, Pencaitland, 1978. |
MATERIA MEDICA |
19. |
Commentariae in materiam medicam e regno
vegetabili. 1763 4o.
Unidentified treatise on materia medica in several different hands,
dated "die 3 Maji, Anni 1763" in a colophon. [M.9.31] |
20. |
Fragments of an unidentified work on drugs. [Edinburgh
c.1840?] 8o.
Incipit "Astringency - indicated by a styptic taste." |
MEDICAL TREATISES |
21. |
Traite de la medecine practique. 2 vol.
[late 17th / early 18th century] 4o. |
22. |
Traites de quelques maladies particulieres.
[early 18th century] fol. |
MEDICINE |
23. |
A doctor's aid to practice. [London?]
c.1660 4o.
Consists of abridgements of the following works:
CULPEPPER, Nicholas
A physical directory; or, a translation of the London dispensatory,
1649.
Semiotica uranica; or, an astrologicall judgment of diseases, 1651.
The English physician; or, an astro-physicall discourse of the vulgar
herbs of this nation, 1652.
PEMMELL, Robert
Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus, 1652.
Presented by Robert Younger, Esq. |
23a. |
The first book of the cure of diseases.
The second book. The third book of the cure of diseases. 3 parts
in 1. MS. 1695.
J Y Simpson 's copy. Bequeathed to RCPE Library by Dr Alex. Black.
1905. |
MIDWIFERY AND OBSTETRICS |
24. |
Obstetrical casebook. Surrey, 1739-50 4o.
Note on fly-leaf reads: “These cases happd. from the year
1739 to 1750 – are wrote by some practitr. in Surrey – are
120 in number & were purchased by M: Garths [i.e. Maxwell Garthshore]
at a Salesman, June 24th 1769.”
With John Thatcher’s signature. |
25. |
Flooding cases [Accounts of flooding cases taken from various
authors.] [c.1740?] 4o.
Ex Simpson collection. |
26. |
Obstetrical casebooks. 2 vol. Bathgate, 1807-43 8o. |
MINERALOGY |
27. |
Itinerarium mineralogicum. [Fragment of the diary of a journey
by some unknown mineralogist.] 1714-15 8o. |
PHARMACOPOEIAS |
28a. |
Pharmacopoeia pauperum in usum Nosocomii Regii Edinburgensis.
Editio
quarta. Edinburgh, 1770 8o.
A printed pharmacopoeia with extensive MS additions. Also contains:
Pharmacopoeia in usum Nosocomini Londin. Sancti Thomae. |
28b. |
Seventeenth century English pharmacopoeia c.1685.
With typescript notes and correspondence. |
PRESCRIPTIONS |
29. |
Loose prescriptions found by Mr CG Drummond in the building
which now
houses the Scottish Central Library. Edinburgh, c.1730.
Presented by the Carnegie Trustees. An account of these prescriptions
is given by
Mr Drummond in the Pharmaceutical Journal 1953 p.137-8. |
UROLOGY |
30. |
Judicium urinarum. 86 leaves. 14th century, fol.
The oldest purely medical MS in the collection, it consists of
a 14th century quasi-alchemical work on urine, with some marginal
notes in a 17th century hand. The ‘Judicium’ proper
finishes on the 68th leaf, and is followed by an alchemical table,
some fragments of medical works, and a poem entitled ‘A descryption
of the ye Fort of Iniquity.’ |
31. |
Unidentified work on urology. [Edinburgh, c.1820?] 4o. |
