Scottish Medicine

• Regimen Sanitatis - The Rule of Health
  A Gaelic Medical Manuscript of the Early Sixteenth Century or perhaps older
• Hermippus Redivivus
  OR, The Sages Triumph over Old Age and the Grave, wherein, A Method is laid down for Prolonging the Life and Vigour of Man. (1744) (pdf)
• History of Scottish Medicine to 1860
  By John D. Comrie (1927)
• Birth of the NHS Service in Scotland
  How the NHS came into being in Scotland is a story that isn't widely known. It had its own strong and distinctively Scottish roots well before 1948.
• Medicine in Ancient Erin
  An Historical Sketch from Celtic to Mediaeval times (1909) (pdf)
• Glasgow
  By the British Medical Association (1922)
• Domestic Medicine
  Or a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines with an Appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of Private Practitioners by William Buchan M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh. (1789).(pdf)
• Scotland Insured
  By J. M. Hogge, M.P.
• A Plea for a Simpler Life
  By George S. Keith, M.D., LL.D, F.R.C.P.. (1897)
• Bread
  Found this article on an old copy of MacMillan's Magazine.
• The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper M. D. (50Mb) (458 pages) (Published 1835) (pdf)
• A Curious Herbal
  Containing 500 cuts of the most useful plants which are used is the practice of Physick by Elizabeth Blackwell (1738)
• Popular Domestic Medicine in the Highlands fifty years ago
  From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society
• 18th Century Book of Herbal Remedies (1700)
  This is a pdf of a hand written book of herbal remedies.
• Victorian Pharmacy
  Victorian Pharmacy is a historical documentary TV series in four parts, first shown on BBC Two in July 2010.
• James Copland
  And his Dictionary of Practical Medicine
• History of Scottish Medicine
  By John D. Comrie (1932) in 2 volumes
  Volume 1  |  Volume 2
• Domestic Medicine and Hygiene
  Being a short account of the most common diseases, their causes and treatment, written in plain language by William J. Russell, M.B. (1878) (pdf)
• General History of the Murray Royal Institution for the Insane, Perth
  From its establishment in 1827 to the end of the first Half-century of its existence in 1877 by Lauder Lindsay, M.D., F.R.S.E. (1878) (pdf)
• Speech by the Right Hon, Sir Lyon Playfair, K.C.B.
  Member for the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews, on the Medical Act Amendment Bill, Delivered on the Second Reading, in the House of Commons, on 22d June 1884. (pdf)
• Two Great Scotsmen, The Brothers William & John Hunter
  By George Mather MD (1893)
• Reminiscences of a Country Doctor 1840-1914
  By David Pride, M.D., J.P. (1914) (pdf)
• Life in the Sick-Room
  Essays by Harriet Martineau (1845) (pdf)
• Influence of Scottish Graduates Outside Scotland in the Nineteenth Century
  A chapter from the History of Scottish Medicine (pdf)
• Jubilee Chronicon
  A Valedictory Address delivered on the occasion of retiring from the Chair of the Medico-Chirurgical Society on 7th January 1875 by P. D. Handyside, M.D. (pdf)
• Herbal Remedies
  By Andrew Chevallier. The last decade has seen a rapid increase in the publication of books on herbal medicine. However, it is rare to find one, such as this, that incorporates details of over-the-counter remedies, written for the general public by a practicing herbal practitioner. Andrew Chevallier brings to this book years of experience in clinical practice and book authorship (he is the author of the Encyclopaedia of Medicinal Plants, also published by Dorling Kindersley). Andrew is a well-known and respected member of the herbal fraternity in the UK, having been in the past President of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (2007) (pdf)
• Caledonian Medical Journal
  Including an article on Old Gaelic medical manuscripts By Dr. MacKay (1904) (pdf)
• Address of John Marshall, F.R.S.
  President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London at the Annual Meeting, March 1st, 1883 (pdf)
• The Story of a Doctor's Telephone
  Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh (1912) (pdf)
• The Physicians's Wife
  And the things that pertain to her Life by Ellen M. Firebaugh (1894) (pdf)
• The Sick Man's Friend
  Being a plain, practical medical work designed for the use of families and individuals on vegetable, or botanical principles: in four parts by Peter Elkins Sanborn (1836) (pdf)
• A Scotch Insane Asylum
  By Dr. John Fraser of the Fife and Kinross District Lunatic Asylum, Cupar, Fife, Scotland, January 28,1875.(pdf)
• The Caledonian Medical Journal
  Edited by W. A. MacNaughton, M.A., M.D., D.P.B and Andrerw Little, M.B. C.M. (1904) (pdf) Contains notes on old Gaelic Medical Manuscripts.
• Covid video advert in Scotland (mp4)
• Life of Dr. John Reid
  Late Chandos Professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the University of St. Andrews by George Wilson, M.D., Author of the "Life and Works of the Hon. Henry Cavendish". (1852) (pdf)
• Highlands and Islands Medical Service Committee Report
  To the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury (c1910) (pdf)
• Dr Roger McNeill and public health in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
  By J W Sheets, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, USA (pdf)
• Girdles
  Their Origin and Development, particularly with regard to their Use as Charms in Medicine, Marriage, and Midwifery by Walter J. Dilling, M.B., Ch.B., Lecturer in Pharmacology, Aberdeen University (1914) (pdf)
• Dr. William Butchart and "The Milne Treatment"
  Honour for a Scotch Superintendent (1912) (pdf)
• How to Heal with Herbs
  From Hamish Martin of Secret Garden Distillery
• The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
  Statistical observations on the Health of the labouring population of the District of Kelso, in two decennial periods, from 1777 to 1787, and from 1829 to 1839 by Charles Wilson, M.D., Corresponding Member of the Medical Society of London, &c., Surgeon to the Kelso Dispensary. (pdf)
• The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
  Volume 19 (1923) (pdf)
• Extracts from the Journal of a Scotch Medical Student of the Eighteenth Century
  Edited by L. M. A. Liggett (pdf)
• The Household Physician
  A Family Guide to the preservation of health and the domestic treatment of ailments and desease, with chapters on food and drugs, and first aid in accidents and injuries by J. M‘Gregor-Robertson, M.A., M.B., C.M.(Honours), F.F.P.S.G., F.R.S.(Ed.) Formerly Lecturer on Physiology in the University of Glasgow, with an introductory note by John G. M‘Kendrick, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, Glasgow University (1898) (pdf)
• Arrana Fairfariana Manuscripta
  A manuscript volume of Apothecaries' Lore and Housewifery nearly three centuries old, used, and partly written by the Faifax Family (1890) (pdf)
• Report of the Joint Sub-Committee on Welfare Foods
  By the Central and Scottish Health Services Councils Standing Medical Advisory Committees (1957) (pdf)
• The Henderson Trust Reports
  At a meeting held on the 6th March, 1905, the Trustees of William Ramsay Henderson, Esq. of Warriston and Eildon Hall, resolved to devote a portion of the funds at their disposal to the collection of facts likely to be useful in the study of Anthropology, having reference especially to the cranial conformation of man, to the size and configuration of the brain and larger nervous centres, and to other kindred subjects, and to publish from time to time the records of such collections of facts under the designation of The Henderson Trust Reports. (pdf)
• Designed to Care
  Renewing the National Health Service in Scotland presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Scotland by Command of Her Majesty December 1997 (pdf)
• The Northern Journal of Medicine
  Monthly Survey of the progress of Medicine at home and abroad edited by William Seller, M.D., and T. Lindley, M.D., with the assistance of a body of gentlemen engaged in the practice and teaching of medicine.
• Charles Alexander Lockhart Robertson
  Distinguished medico-psychological physician, obituary (1897) (pdf)

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