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Chapter I - Early Medicine in Scotland
Healing wells - Amulets and charms - Monasteries and medicine - Michael
Scot - Gaelic medical manuscripts - Priory of Torphichen - Sir James
Sandilands.
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Chapter II - Early
Scottish Hospitals and Regulations for Isolation
Soutra-Kirk o' Field-Trinity Hospital - Hospital of Our Lady - Hospitals
of St. Mary Magdalen - Hospital of St. Nicholas - Hospital of St. James
- Spittal's Hospital - Nether Hospital - St. Thomas's Hospital -
Cowane's Hospital - Leper Houses and Hospitals - Early Edicts, etc.,
regarding Leprosy and Syphilis.
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Chapter III - Medical
Renaissance in the Time of James IV
Health Regulations in Cities - James IV. and Medical Progress - The Seal
of Cause granted to Surgeons and Barbers - Anatomical Books - Acts
regulating practice of Surgeons, Barbers, Apothecaries and Surgeon -
Apothecaries.
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Chapter IV - Practice
at Edinburgh in the Sixteenth Century
First Scottish Military Surgeons - Steel Hand of Clephane - Action
against unlawful practice - Medico-legal cases - Early Specialists in
Surgery - Medical Officers, public and private - Jerome Cardan - Robert
Auchmowtie.
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Chapter V - Early
Public Health Regulations and the Plague
Early Regulations, 1498 - Notification made compulsory - Convictions -
Isolation - Cleansing infected clothing and houses - Buriers of the dead
- Charities for plague-stricken poor - Appointment of a Medical Officer
- Recurrences in the XVIth Century - Immunity in Aberdeenshire,
Sutherlandshire and Liddesdale.
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Chapter VI - The
Surgeons of Edinburgh in the Seventeenth Century
Advance of the Guild of Surgeons and Barbers - Surgeon-Apothecaries
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh incorporated - Double and Triple
qualification - Instruction in Anatomy - Convening House built New
Surgeons' Hall - Pitcairne and Monteath - Eliot, first "Professor of
Anatomy" - The Monros.
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Chapter VII - General
Practice in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Impediments to progress Anderson's Scots Pills - Professional fees -
Military Surgeon's emoluments - Richard Wiseman, "the father of English
surgery" - The new cure of fevers - Pharmacopoeia issued by the Royal
College of Physicians, Edinburgh - Animal substances introduced -
Irregular practice by mountebanks - Medical literature - Smallpox
epidemics - Inoculation adopted in Scotland - Sibbens and croup -
Account-book of Dr. William Cullen - The whey cure - Description of an
18th century Scottish country practitioner.
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Chapter VIII - The
Eighteenth Cenury Voluntary Hospital Movement
First Scottish Voluntary Hospital - Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh -
Payment of hospital staff - Clinical lectures - First children's
hospital - Institutions for sick poor - Town's Hospital and Glasgow
Royal Infirmary - Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - Dumfries Infirmary -
Montrose, Dundee, Paisley, Inverness, Greenock, Perth and Stirling
Infirmaries - Asylums for the insane.
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Chapter IX - The
Medical School of Aberdeen
Foundation - "Mediciners" at King's College - Diploma of M.D. degree -
Medical Officer of the Burgh - Skeen's treatise on the plague - The
Gregorys - Marischal College - Lecturers on medicine - "Burning of the
burking-house" - Aberdeen Medical Society - The University of Aberdeen.
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Chapter X - The Early
Medical School of Glasgow
Salaried Medical Officers - Peter Lowe - Faculty of Physicians and
Surgeons - Code of rules - Prosecution of quacks - Medical library
formed - William Cullen and Joseph Black.
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Chapter XI - The Early
Medical School of St. Andrews
First Scottish University - Early Medical teaching - John Knox - Chair
of Medicine and Anatomy - The Chandos Chair - Medical School.
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Chapter XII -
Foundation of the College of Physicians and of the Faculty of Medicine
at Edinburgh
Early Efforts - Botany and Anatomy - Early Physic Gardens - Archibald
Pitcairne - Professors of Medicine in Town's College - Robert Sibbald -
Travelling doctors and mountebanks - Medical Faculty of Edinburgh
University - Plummer and Rutherford - Professor of Midwifery -
Requirements for degree of M.D.
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Chapter XIII -
Medicine at Edinburgh in the latter half of the Eighteenth Century
Effect of the Rebellion - Whytt's researches - Monro's foramen -
Cullen's work and text-books - The "Brunonian Theory" - Black discovers
carbon dioxide - Progress of Edinburgh Medical School - Monro's lectures
- Bell's "System of Surgery" - Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.
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Chapter XIV - The
Glasgow School in the first half of the Nineteenth Century
Glasgow Royal Infirmary - C.M. Glasgow - Progress of Medical School -
Hunter's Museum - The Andersonian College - The Medico-Chirurgical
Society - The Botanic Garden - Professorships of Midwifery and Surgery -
Joseph Lister Chair of Chemistry - First laboratory devoted to chemical
research - The Anatomy Act - Allen Thomson - Chairs founded by Queen
Victoria - Easton's Syrup - List of Teachers in the Medical School of
Glasgow.
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Chapter XV - Medicine
at Edinburgh shortly after 1800
Gregory's Powder - Medical litigants - Public Lunatic Asylum opened -
Development of Chemistry - Professorship of Military Surgery -
University Chair of Systematic Surgery - Chair of Clinical Surgery -
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal - Extra-academical Teachers of
Anatomy - John and Charles Bell - Anatomical Publications - Anatomical
Museum - Knox and the Resurrectionists - Anatomy Act, 1830 - Cellular
doctrines.
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Chapter XVI -
Edinburgh Medicine to the middle of the Nineteenth Century
Chair of Medical Jurisprudence - Materia Medica - Discovery of Conine -
Chair of Surgery - Fergusson - Lizars: "Observations on Extraction of
Diseased Ovaria" - Liston: "Observations on Amputation" - James Syme -
Joseph Lister - James Young Simpson - Chloroform - Chair of Pathology -
John Hughes Bennett - Chair of Chemistry - Isolation of "Morphium" -
Original hypodermic syringe - Chair of Medicine - Public Health -
Midwifery and Diseases of Children.
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Chapter XVII - Medical
Legislative changes in 1860
Position up to 1858 - The Medical Act - Improvement of Scottish
Universities.
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Index
