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The history of germ theory in the College collections

Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bc)
De re rustica
Venice, 1514

The idea that certain diseases were...

The history of cancer in the College collections

Galen (130–200 ad)
De tumoribus praeter naturam
Basle, 1542

Galen considered neoplasms to be due...

Care of the elderly in the College collections

Tancred Robinson (d. 1748)
A letter giving an account of one Henry Jenkins a Yorkshire Man who attained the...

The James Young Simpson Diary

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Marginalia in Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1821)

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Paediatrics in the College Collections

Thomas Phayer (ca.1510-1560)
The boke of chyldren
London, 1553

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Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Sir Sydney Smith and the development of police forensic laboratories

Sir Sydney Smith (1883-1969) was one of the pre-eminent medico-legal specialists of his day. As a leading forensic...

George Cleghorn: The surgeon-anatomist

George Cleghorn (1716-1789), medical pioneer and gifted surgeon-anatomist, was born in Granton, just outside...

Blood pressure in the College collections

William Harvey (1578-1657)
Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus
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