| Description | Volume containing list of manuscripts donated by Sir James McGrigor to the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1847.
The covering letter sent by McGrigor to the Society is enclosed inside the volume. Dated 4 August 1847, he donates his personal medical records, 'being chiefly cases of disease which occurred in the Regimental Hospital of the 88th Regiment and of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards when I was Surgeon of these Corps and subsequently when I was on the Medical Staff of the Army'. He continues: 'In presenting these volumes I do so not on account of their value which I am very sensible is but small but as holding out to the Junior Members of the Society an instance of the persevering industry with which I prosecuted my profession from my first entrance into the Army and to which I mainly attribute my success in it'.
As he notes in his letter, the clinical cases are in the majority of instances written by McGrigor, but they were sometimes written by his assistants during his tenure as Surgeon in the 88th Regiment and the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards: Mr. Thom of Aberdeen, Mr. Ninian Bruce of Aberdeen, Mr. Peter Nicol of Aberdeen, Dr. J. Brown of Skene Square, Aberdeen, Dr. Laing of Golden Square, Aberdeen, Mr. Tonera of Ireland and Mr. Peach of Somersetshire.
Enclosed at the back of the volume is a table, not dated, noting the number of sick in the general hospital at Passages. It also records the types of diseases prevalent in the hospital and the number of patients who were discharged, 'transferred to England' or died. |