Old Medical Books in Edinburgh Libraries: The Royal Medical Society Catalogue Project

A catalogue of medical incunabula in Edinburgh libraries

A Catalogue of Medical Books

IN two world wars the American surgeons have entered the field with enthusiasm but with little experience. At first they have shown themselves to suffer from a failure of transfer from civilian practice to the stress and urgency of war. This stress and urgency is not so continuous that it does not allow time for thought and learning, and it is at this that the American surgeons have excelled in...

Catalogue of Medical Books in Manchester University Library, 1480–1700

American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

Royal Medical Benevolent Fund Society of Ireland

draw ouit aitlir-SiZC(l 1w(lliCe I(Ii tllcI'lSCI\ ts', all(l vet ar1,c hOt 'O CIflorl that approacli to the pe(licle is iml)ossible. I'rior to closing the abdomleni, the gall-bladder---small, firmii, thick-wallc(l, and conitracted-was exanmined, andl founcd to conltainl up near the cystic duct three calculi, each the size of a smiiall pea. Cholecystectomy was pcrfomed, which was not easv throug...

Royal Medical Benevolent Fund Society of Ireland