Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Casebook compiled [at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh], probably by an unnamed student, November 1827-April 1828, with one additional case, June-July 1828 (ff. 144-148). The physicians in charge of the cases were Drs 'Graham' [Robert Graham (d. 1845), Professor of Medicine and Botany] and 'Hume' [James Home (1758-1842), Professor of the Practice of Physic]. The cases from November 1827 to January 1828 may well have been treated by Graham; those from February to April 1828 by Home. Entries on 1 February 1828 refer to cases 'remitted to Dr Hume' (ff. 37, 41, 95 etc.). A number of cases end with a note on 1 May 1828 'remitted to Dr Graham' (ff. 177, 331, 451 etc.).

1827-1828

1 volume 1 volume: 220 × 133 mm., 498 ff. Contemporary half-leather binding, end-papers watermarked 1829. Spine lettered 'Clinical reports from Dr Graham & Hume.'

Purchased from Roger Middleton, 1991.

Earlier casebooks are discussed in Guenter Risse, Hospital life in Enlightenment Scotland. Care and teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Cambridge, 1986).

Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).