| Description | Two volumes containing Ogston's lecture notes on the teaching of 'operative surgery' for the period May - July 1883. Volume number 1 contains Ogston's lecture notes and volume number 2 contains a list of illustrations that accompanied his lectures, including surgical instruments;demonstrations of operations; surgical models and diagrams. The lecture notes refer to the corresponding list of illustrations in volume number 2. Volume number 2 also contains a copy of Ogston's lecture notes on operative surgery.
The lecture notes & small drawings in the volumes relate to the instruments, practice and methods of operative surgery. The notes often refer to surgical texts, such as 'Smith & Walsham', 'Guerin', 'Esmarch', 'Gray' and 'Konig'. Includes brief notes on the procurement of human body [cadaver] parts and the use of animal body parts in Ogston's teachings [see for example pages 67 & 293 in volume numbers 1 & 2 respectively].
Volume number 1 contains a brief index encompassing both volumes, which includes:
a list of subject 'Headings & Plans of Course' - 'Plan of course of operations for summer session, of 60 lectures, arranged for 2 dead bodies, one male and one female, introductory remarks'. List occasionally indicates the ?number of duplicate operations, whether the subject was to be taught using a male or female body and which body part was to be used;
'Lecture notes' - see the item - level descriptions for further details on the information contained in the two volumes;
and 'Illustrations of Course' - covered in volume number 2.
In addition, volume number 1 contains a sort of 'preface' to the operative surgery course, which includes:
notes on the 'Utilization of Infantile Cadavera & limbs' - operations on stillborn mature infants, blue injection in veins and operations on an amputated leg;
'Preservative fluids' - ?wichersheimess fluid, ?wyurodzew's fluid, schieferdecker's preservative liquid, Charing Cross Hospital dissection room injecting fluid and shilings solution;
'Anatomy Act & Funeratory Regulations' - copy of 'An Act for Regulating Schools of Anatomy [1st August, 1832]', annotated 'Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland ? Alex Russell Esq. M. B. Edinburgh'. The Act mentions 'And whereas the legal Supply of Human Bodies for such Anatomical Examination is insufficient fully to provide the Means of such Knowledge: And whereas, in order further to supply Human Bodies for such Purposes, divers great and grievous Crimes have been committed, and lately Murder, for the single Object of selling for such Purposes the Bodies of the Persons so murdered';
Copy of 'Aberdeen Parochial Burying - House or Funeratory', dated 16 January 1883 and annotated 'Treasurer of Funeratory ? Chalmers Esq ?Westrum Aberdeen'. Includes 'Regulations for the Superintendent' and a table showing 'the Scale of Payments for Cadavera, at present in operation';
a letter from Robert Cook, Office of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland, 33 Marshall St., Edinburgh, to Ogston, dated 30 April 1884. Letter acknowledges receipt of Ogston's letter and instructs Ogston on the sending of 'Returns' ['Quarterly Return to the ... Secretary of State ... of every deceased Person's Body that during the preceding Quarter has been removed for Anatomical Examination to every separate Place in his District where Anatomy is carried on, distinguising the Sex, and, as far as is known at the Time, the Name and Age of each Person whose Body was so removed as aforesaid', Anatomy Act, 1832, p. 3] & the 'Medical Certificate' [?'That every Party so receiving a Body for Anatomical Examination after Removal shall demand and receive, together with the Body, a Certificate', 'Anatomy Act, 1832, p. 5].
'Preface' also includes a 'List of Books on Operative Surgery' - 'Chirurgie Operatoire, par Alphonse Guerin. 4th Ed. Chamerot et Lauwereyns, Paris. 1869';
'Operative Surgery on the dead body by Smith & Walsham. 2nd Ed. Longmans, Green, & Co. London 1876';
'Kriegschirurgische Technik, von Dr. Friedrich Esmarch. Carl Rumpler, Hannover, 1878';
'Surgeon's Pocket Book by J. H. Porter. Chas Griffin & Co. London, 1875';
'Operative Surgery (Plates by Leveille), by Christopher Heath. Churchill, London 1877' and
'Operative Surgery, by Bernard & Huette, Edited by Van Buren and Isaacs. H Bailliere, New York and London, 1855'.
Also, volume number 1 includes dates and times of the operative surgery examinations: '1st Prize Examination about Saturday 28th May 9.a.m.' and '2nd Prize Examination about Saturday 2nd July 9.a.m.'.
Both volumes includes later annotations on slips of paper, dated circa 1887 - circa 1907 [mostly around the 1890s] and which refer to methods & practice of operative surgery, notes from related texts & articles, such as the 'Lancet', and medical drawings. The slips are inserted throughout the volumes, presumably relating to the repeated delivery of Ogston's lectures. The volumes are bound, with 'Professor Ogston Operative Surgery' plus the volume number in gold inscription on the front cover. |