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CollectionGB 0817 Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
LevelItem
Ref NoAMCS/2/1/7
TitleRecord of specimens
Dateearly 19th century
Extent1 volume
DescriptionVolume containing a record of the different medical specimens belonging to the Society, with detailed background case notes often provided. Numbered from pages 1-137 there is an index at the front of the volume and a list is enclosed at page 1 entitled: 'Medical Society preparations reviewed'. Some of the specimens listed are as follows:

Fungus Hoematodes (pages 1-2)
Fungus Hoematodes affecting the Muscles (pages 2-3)
Pendulous tumour (page 3) [Section of one of the ovaria]
Section of Carcinomatous Mamma (page 3)
Carcinomatous Mamma (page 4)
Fungus Hoematodes of Larynx (page 4)
Section of a tumour extirpated from the mamma (page 4)
Fungous ulcer of mamma (page 4)
Erosion or digestion of the Stomach (pages 4-9)
Part of a tumour which filled about three fourths of the abdomen (pages 9-15)
Part of the same tumour (showing its connection with the descending aorta which it surrounded) (page 15)
Slice of a carcinomatous schirrus [scirrhous] of the mamma (page 15)
Cancerous horn and wart (page 16)
A hollow cylinder of coagulable lymph (page 16)
Supperated tubercles of the liver (pages 16-18)
A piece of lung from the above subject (page 18)
A longitudinal section of the spleen (page 18)
Sections of two of the small tumours found attached to the pancreas (page 18)
Contraction of the ostium ventriculi of the left side of the heart (pages 18-24)
The small tumour that was found plugging up the left ostium ventriculi of the last preparation (page 24)
Intus-susception of the Ileum and Caecum in a child (pages 24-27)
Intus-susception of the Ileum in its incipient stages (page 27)
Scrofulous abscess or vomica of the left lung of a child three years old (pages 28-29)
Vertical and horizontal section of the uterus (page 30)
Ulceration and rupture of the left ventricle of the heart (pages 34-35)
Tubera Circumscripta of the liver (pages 35-37)
Reference to abscess of the liver with drawing by Mr. James Duncan, Assistant Surgeon in the Honorable East India Company (pages 38-44)
Tubercle of the liver (pages 57-60)
Part of a diseased liver which filled one half of the abdomen (pages 60-62).
Fungus tumour (page 82)
Scrophulous ulceration of larynx, Mr. D. Reid, 1836 (page 114)
Adhesion of the pericardium, thickening of the mitral and aortic valves, Dr. Kilgour, 1836 (page 130).
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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