| Collection | GB 0817 Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society |
| Level | Item |
| Ref No | AMCS/3/21 |
| Alt Ref No | MS 61 Sau |
| Title | Lecture notes of William Saunders taken by Thomas Lynch |
| Date | 1769 |
| Extent | 1 volume |
| Description | Lecture notes of William Saunders, M.D., Edinburgh, taken by Thomas Lynch. Written in a small, neat hand with list of contents at start of volume. Spine and title page: 'Compendium Medicinae Practicum'. The subjects covered are as follows:
Of fevers in general (p.1)
Acute inflammatory fever (p.22)
Slow nervous fever (p.25)
The putrid malignant or jail fever (p.31)
Intermittent fevers (p.35)
Of inflammation in general (p.44)
Phrenitis (p.50)
Inflammatory sore throat (p.52)
Putrid, malignant or ulcerated sore throat (p.53)
Peripneumony (p.55)
Pleurisy (p.58)
The pulmonary consumption (p.60)
Inflammation of the stomach and intestines (p.63)
The iliac passion (p.65)
Inflammation of the liver (p.66)
Inflammation of the kidney (p.68)
Strangury (p.70)
Rheumatism (p.71)
Small pox (p.74)
Measles (p.78)
Dysentery (p.80)
Cholera morbus (p.86)
Haemoptoe (p.88)
Asthma (p.91)
Indigestion, or a depraved appetite (p.94)
Haemorrhoids (p.98)
Jaundice (p.100)
Diabetes (p.103)
Calculous Concretions (p.104)
Sea scurvy (p.106)
Dropsy (p.108)
Apoplexy (p.115)
Palsy (p.119)
Epilepsy (p.122)
Hysteria and hypochondriacal diseases (p.127)
Spasmodic cholic (p.132)
Venereal disease (p.135)
Diseases of women (p.142)
Menses (p.142)
Chlorosis (p.143)
Suppression of the menses (p.145)
Uterine Haemorrhages (p.148)
Fluor Albus (p.150)
Diseases of children (p.151)
Acidities in the Primae… (p.151)
[Tinia?] or scall'd head (p.153)
Dentition (p.154)
Worms (p.155)
Rickets (p.157)
Hooping [Whooping] cough (p.158)
Scrophulous affections (p.159). |
| Access Status | Restricted |
| Access Conditions | Please 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. |
| Physical Description | 1 volume (0.05 linear metres) |