| Administrative History | 'Erichsen' - British surgeon Sir John Eric Erichsen (1818 – 1896) 'described a peculiar progressive spinal disorder, similar to spinal concussion, that was a sequela to railroad accident or injury'. This disorder was known as "railroad spine" or "Erichsen's disease".
Cited from the abstract for Keller T, Chappell T., 'The rise and fall of Erichsen's disease (railroad spine)' from 'Spine' 21 (1996), 1597 - 1601, found on the 'Pub Med' web page, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8817791&dopt=Abstract (2005).
See item - level MS 3760/1/2 for further details.
Further information about Erichsen can found at D'A. Power, ‘Erichsen, Sir John Eric, baronet (1818–1896)’, rev. B. A. Bryan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8835, accessed 7 Dec 2005]. |
| Description | Six volumes containing the complete set of Ogston's teaching notes on 'surgery class' for the period 1885 - 1887; and also covering the period 1887 - 1896. Volumes I - IV cover Ogston's 'volume I' and volumes V - VI cover his 'volume II'.
Volumes include notes relating to causes, nature, pathology & symptoms of various inflictions, plus treatments, other healing methods (including methods practiced by other surgeons), and details on drugs and medicine. Some of the notes include small illustrations & sketches of instruments and body parts and some entries have been scored out, ?presumably by Ogston.
Volume I includes an alphabetical index of subjects taught in the surgery class, which covers the six volumes:
Actino - mykosis; arteries; abdomen, diseases of; blood; burns; bites & poisoned inoculations; bones, disease of; cold; calcalus; deliruim tremens; diphtheria; dislocations; deformities; erysipelas; eye diseases; ear, diseases; fractures; female bladder & urethral disease of; genito urinary diseases; gullet, diseases of; haemorrhage; hydrophobia; head; hernia; inflammation; joints, diseases; lymphatics diseases of; mortification; mouth, throat & airpassages; muscles; military surgery, nerves, diseases of; nose, diseases of; operations & anasthesia; phlegmon & pyaemia; perineum & external genitals, diseases of; rectum & anus, diseases of; suppuration; scrofula & tubercle; scurvy; skin, diseases of; tetanus; testis, diseases of; tumours; thyroid gland, diseases of; thorax & breast; teeth, diseases of; tendons & bursae, diseases of; ulceration; uterine & ovarian tumours; veins; vagina, diseases of, & wounds.
See the item - level descriptions for further details on the subjects contained in the volumes.
Ogston sometimes refers to the next subject in the surgery class, which is not necessarily in the same volume and the lecture number is usually indicated.
In addition, volume I comprises of a list of 'proposed biannual division of subjects' for 'surgery class 1885 - 6' and '1886 - 87'. The lists include how many days and minutes the proposed classes were supposed to 'occupy', and annotations & loose sheets of paper indicate that this surgery class was probably taught between 1885 and 1896.
Volume I includes the names and addresses of the assistant and demonstrator for 1885 - 1886 [Thomas George Paterson M.B., 24 Craigie Street and George Rose, 20 Mount Street respectively] and 1886 - 1887 [Dr. John D. Thomson, Diamond Cottage, Holburn Place and Jas Don, 11 Richmond Terrace, respectively]. Also, for 1887 - 1888 [Dr. Beveridge and John MacVine, respectively]; 1888 - 1894 [Dr. John Scott Riddell - assistant]; 1888 - 1895 [Leslie L. Milne - demonstrator] and 1894 - 1895 [Dr. Don - assistant].
Volume I includes a list of text books used in Ogston's surgery class: "Erichsen's Surgery 8th Ed. 2. Vols 1884"; "Holmes' [?Timothy Holmes (1825 – 1907)] Surgery 4th Ed. 1. Vol. 1884" and "Bryant's [?Thomas Bryant (1828 – 1914)] Surgery 4th Ed. 2. Vols. 1884".
Also includes times & dates for examinations:
'First Prize Examination. 10.a.m. Saturday 19. Dec. 1885';
'Second Prize Examination. 10.a.m. Saturday 13. Mar. 1886';
'Peter Shepherd Gold Medal Examination 6 March 1886';
'Keith Gold Medal Examination Sat 27th Feby. 1886. 10.a.m. conferred this year in the Surgery Class'.
'First Prize Examination 10.a.m. Saturday 18. Dec 1886 to end of fractures';
'Shephard Gold Medal Examination 10.a.m. Saturday 9th March 1887';
'Second Prize Examination 10.a.m. Saturday 12th March 1887';
'(Keith Gold Medal Conferred this year in Clin Surgery Class)'.
Volumes include later annotations on slips of paper, dated circa 1880 - circa 1908 and which refer to other surgeons, notes from medical texts & articles, and details of operations. The slips are inserted throughout the volumes, presumably relating to the repeated delivery of Ogston's lectures. The volumes are bound, with 'Professor Ogston Surgery' plus the volume number, in gold inscription on the front cover. |