Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Casebook compiled [at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh], probably by an unnamed student. The notes document the cases of 34 patients, male and female, admitted between November 1805 and February 1806, giving a description of symptoms, a diagnosis usually, and a daily record of treatment. The physician or physicians in charge are not identified, although `Dr H.' is mentioned on f. 44v.; this may be either James Home (1766-1842), professor of materia medica, or Thomas Charles Hope (1766-1844), professor of chemistry, both of whom treated patients in the infirmary at various times.

1805-6

91 ff. (original pagination 1-36, 39-44, 47-106, 109-184 and unnumbered). 1 vol., 210 x 130 mm. Some leaves missing. Blue-paper covered boards.

Purchased from Marlborough Rare Books, 1997.

See MS. 6053 and Guenter B. Risse, Hospital life in Enlightenment Scotland; care and teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Cambridge, 1986). Cf. also MS. 6920.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts