| Administrative History | The Society was founded in 1821 with a constitution based on the London society of similar name. Its aim was to improve medicine and surgery and Transactions were produced from 1824. The Society is still in existence.
James Craufurd Gregory (1801 - 1832), physician, was a medical student in Edinburgh during this period and served for a time as Secretary to the Society. |
| Description | Summaries of addresses given to the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, with letters from corresponding members, 5 December 1821 - 1824. Five enclosures, 1825, 1827 and undated.
Addresses include:
Contributions to the pathology of the heart by John Abercrombie M.D.
Observations on Lettuce Opium, an article of the materia medica lately introduced to the Edinburgh pharmacopia and recommended as a powerful sedative medicine by Andrew Duncan, M.D. and Professor, President of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society
Remarks on a skull exhibited to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh by George Ballingal, M.D.
Some observations on a peculiar affection to which the bones of the cranium are liable by James Russell
Letter from Dr Arnold, Jamaica, to Dr Home, Professor, on the Adru
An account of the appearances observed in the dissection of two of the three individuals presumed to have perished in the storm of the 3rd and whose bodies were discovered in the vicinity of Leith on the morning of the 4th November 1821 with some reflections on the pathology of the brain by George Kellie
Case of hernia in which the operation of taxis was rendered efficient by a new mode of performing it by William Balfour M.D.
Some observations on the healthy and diseased structure of the bones by J Lizars
Extract of a letter from John Thomson, Surgeon in Callander, corresponding member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh to Dr Moncrieff
Practical results in the treatment of tetanic diseases collected in the course of 5 years' practice by Thomas Anderson, M.D., extraordinary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and Inspector of the Health of Shipping in the Port of Spain, Trinidad
Contributions to the pathology of the stomach and adjoining parts by John Abercrombie, M.D.
Letter from G.A. Borthwick M.D. regarding the case of a man who poisoned himself by swallowing a quantity of whyte [sic] oxide of arsenic
Reflections on the pathology of the brain (part II) by George Kellie
Case of tubercular disease of the peritoneum and [omentum] combined with tympanic affection by William Moncrieff
Contributions to the pathology of the stomach and adjoining parts (part II) by John Abercrombie, M.D.
History of a case of Anemia by J J Combe
Case of tetanus from a wound successfully healed by tobacco and purgatives by Thomas Anderson, M.D., extraordinary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and Inspector of the Health of Shipping in the Port of Spain, Trinidad
Case of cynanche tracheatis by James Pitcairn, M.D.
Case of phrenitis successfully treated in India by opening the radial artery by J.P. Kind (communicated in a letter to Dr Barclay)
Contributions to the pathology of the stomach and adjoining parts (part III) by John Abercrombie, M.D.
Case of dysphagia by David Hay
Letter from J.H. Davidson regarding an account of partial paralysis
A case of cynanche parotidea fatal by haemorrhage by John MacFarlane
A case of malformation of the heart by A.F. Holmes, M.D., Montreal, Lower Canada
Cases of persons struck by lightening by Alexander MacAulay, M.D.
Cases illustrative of the sedative power of the datura stramonium
Notice concerning the fever that occurred in the Magdalene Asylum of Edinburgh in Spring 1821 as illustrating the influence of the affections and passions of the mind upon the laws of contagion by Robert Hamilton, M.D.
A sketch of some modes of practice pursued in certain diseases obstructing different of the natural passages by Dr Molleson
Cases of infantile diseases in which erosions and perforations of the alimentary canal were found after death with remarks by John Gairdner. M.D. F.R.C.S.E.
Act of the exanthematous opthalmia with observations on its treatment by James Wardrop, Surgeon Extraordinary to the King
Case of severe and protracted "nervous disease" narrated by the patient, a medical gentleman (communicated by Dr Duncan junior)
The case of a "double child"
Case of pomphalyx dintinus by H.C. Shewin, Surgeon to the Dispensary Hall and Corresponding member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh
An account of some cases of carcinoma affecting the mamma communicated by R Hay
Notes of a case of psychonia with remarkable appearances upon dissection by Dr Molleson
Notes on the case and dissection of Charles Balfour, 19 years of age, as communicated by Mr Robert Shand, Navy Surgeon to Dr Molleson
Notes of a case of immense abscesses and death resulting from mercury applied in excessive quantities communicated by Mr Robert Shand, Navy Surgeon to Dr Molleson
Letter from Dr Berry accompanied with descriptions of a lusus naturae which united two children together
Case of a breast presentation sucessfully treated without introducing the hand into the uterus by Thomas Buchanan
Case of puerpura haemorragica by W. Vallange of the 33rd Regiment of Foot
Observations on the nature, causes and treatment of beri beri
Case of extraction of calculus from female bladder by dilation of the urethura
Notices of a few of the papers which have been read before the Medicinal and Physical Society of Calcutta.
The enclosures are numbered x1-5 in between pages 440-441 |