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CollectionGB 0817 Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
LevelItem
Ref NoAMCS/2/1/2
Alt Ref NoB.B. 20
TitleCase book
Date1793 - 1798
Extent1 volume
Description'A Collection of Cases read before the Medical Society of Aberdeen'. There is an incomplete index at the end of the volume.

1. A case of hernia, Colin Allan.
2. A case of icterus, 16 July 1793, W. Bremner.
3. A case of jaundice, John Grant.
4. A case of 'Petechia fine Febre' (p.21), 13 August 1793, Robert Scott.
5. Case of soldier admitted into the Infirmary after being seized with a severe pain in his side, a hard dry cough and small red spots all over his body, August 1793 (p.30).
6. Case of woman experiencing weakness and great tiredness pointing towards beginning of fever (p.33), Robert Irvine.
7. 'Some remarkable, and seemingly dangerous symptoms, proceeding from a draught of too strong an influence of chamomile flowers' (p.37), December 1793, J. Caie.
8. Case of tympanites (p.43), 7 January 1794.
9. A case of epilepsy (p.47), Colin Dakers.
10. Case of an affection of the liver (p.51), September 1793, Allan McCaskill.
11. Case of typhus (p.54), read before the Society on the 26 November 1793, R. Scott.
12. Case of pleurisy (p.63), James Skene.
13. 'The powerful diuretic effects of the Digitalis Purpurea in a case of Anasarca which terminated fatally (p.66), 7 February 1794, Allan McCaskill.
14. 'Of the epidemic fever which raged in Aberdeen in 1793' (p.70).
[Case 15 missing.]
16. Gunshot injury to hand (p.75).
Case (not numbered) of man admitted into the Infirmary with pain in the stomach, bloody stools and nausea (p.82), Charles Leslie.
Case of anasarca (p.85), C. Dakers.
Case of haemoptysis (p.89).
Case of hemiplegia (p.91).
21. Case of asthma (p.93), February 1795, R. Smith.
22. A case of calculus which proved fatal after the operation was performed' (p.102), March 1795, Ninian Bruce.
23. Injury to knee (p.109), read before the Society on the 25 March 1795, A. Mackie.
24. Case of man experiencing pain in head and back, sickness, cough and loss of strength followed by a cold (p.111), 26 April 1795, Alex Mackie.
25. Case of girl of 18 years of age experiencing swelling on the left side of the head above the temples accompanied by acute pain, 'the swelling and pain were confined to a small spot'(p.116), 5 May 1795, James Gordon.
26. 'Rabies Canina with Hydrophobia' (p.122), 12 July 1796, Dr. Taylor.
27. Case of man who had for several years been troubled with an inquinal rupture in the right side (p.124), 1 November 1796, Farquhar McKinnon.
28. Case of labourer thrown from horse onto a cart (p.127), April 1797, F. Erskine Stephen.
29. Ulcer on breast (p.130), James Forbes.
30. Case of gout (p.133), 12 June 1798, James Nimmo.
31. Case of sailor experiencing violent acute pain in right side and breast, attended with difficult respiration and cough accompanied by great deal of expectoration of a frothy mucus (p.138), 17 July 1798, Samuel Miller.
32. Pyrexia (p.141), August 1798, George Alexander.
33. Case of boy who swallowed an ounce of 'Tinct Opii' (p.145), August 1798, James Nimmo.
34. Fracture and depression of the skull (p.148), September 1798, James Selbie.
35. Case of man who experienced problem while receiving blood transfusion leading to tumour on the arm (p.161), 1798, J. Scorgie.
Access StatusRestricted
Access ConditionsPlease note that although the catalogue is available via the Special Collections website, the papers are held by the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society at its offices in the Medical School building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen. Please contact the Society directly to arrange access to the records: Tel. 01224 437104; Email: medchilibrarian@abdn.ac.uk.
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