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1683Hortus medicus Edinburgensis, or, A catalogue of the plants in the Physical Garden at Edinburgh: Containing their most proper Latin and English names; with an English alphabetical index.
SUTHERLAND, James (1638 – 1719)
1703A description of the Western Islands of Scotland.: Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves, and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of forseeing things to come, by way of vision, so common among them. A brief hint of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney, and Schetland.
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
1792Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca Societatis medicae Edinburgenae, secundum auctorum nomina dispositus.
ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
1837Catalogue raisonné, or, classified arrangement of the books in the Library of the Medical Society of Edinburgh.
ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
1893​–1903Descriptive catalogue of the anatomical and pathological specimens in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 3 Vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Charles W. Cathcart; Vol. 3 by Theodore Shennan. Vol. 1.- The skeleton and organs of motion.
CATHCART, Charles Walker (1853 – 1932)
CATHCART, Charles Walker (1853 – 1932) SHENNAN, Theodore
1909Catalogue of the specimens in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Vol. 1.- Pathology. Edited by Sir William Turner.
TURNER, Sir William (1832 – 1916)
TURNER, Sir William (1832 – 1916)
1911Regimen sanitatis. The rule of health. A Gaelic medical manuscript of the early sixteenth century or perhaps older from the vade mecum of the famous Macbeaths physicians to the Lords of the Isles and the Kings of Scotland for several centuries.
GILLIES, Hugh Cameron
1932History of Scottish medicine. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.
COMRIE, John Dixon (1875 – 1939)
COMRIE, John Dixon (1875 – 1939)
1948The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
FERGUSON, Thomas (1900 – 1977)
1962Catalogue of the pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter, Sir William Macewen, Prof. John H. Teacher and Prof. J.A.G. Burton in the museum of the Pathology Dept., Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
MARSHALL, Alice J. BURTON, John Adam Gib (1888 – 1962)
1976History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
CRAIG, William Stuart McRae (1903 – 1975)
1979The Monro collection in the Medical Library of the University of Otago: A descriptive catalogue with annotations and introduction
MONRO, Alexander, Secundus (1733 – 1817)
MONRO, Alexander, Secundus (1733 – 1817)
MONRO, Alexander, Primus (1697 – 1767)
MONRO, Alexander, Primus (1697 – 1767) TAYLOR, Douglass W.
MONRO, Alexander, Tertius (1773 – 1859)
MONRO, Alexander, Tertius (1773 – 1859)
1981The healers: a history of medicine in Scotland.
HAMILTON, David Ninian Hay
1987Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ) STACE, Helen E. PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )
1994Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.
RORIE, David (1867 – 1946) BUCHAN, David (1939 – 1994)
1995Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.
BEITH, Mary
1999Physicians and surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858: The history of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
MACDONALD, Fiona (1958 – ) GEYER-KORDESCH, Johanna
2006Former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1783-2002. Biographical index. 2 vols.
WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ) SHEARER, A. Macmillan
2008The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
BRUNTON, Deborah
2009The anatomy murders: Being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes.
ROSNER, Lisa (1958 – )
2012The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.
MCCRACKEN-FLESHER, Caroline
2014Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.
COYER, Megan SHUTTLETON, David E.
2017Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.
COYER, Megan