Matrons, medics and maladies : inside Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the 1840s /

Matrons, medics and maladies : inside Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the 1840s /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Yule, Bill.
Imprint:	East Linton : Tuckwell, 1999.
Description:	xiv, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh -- History. Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Medicine -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century. Hospital care -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century. Hospitals. Scotland. Scotland -- Edinburgh. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4347403

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Varying Form of Title:	Matrons, medics and maladies : Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the 1840s.
Other authors / contributors:	Johnstone, John.
ISBN:	1862320918
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-235).

Table of Contents:

A Note on the Prescriptions
1. The Layout of the Infirmary with a note on its history
2. Nursing in the Royal Infirmary
3. The Board of Management
4. One of the Surgeons
5. Two Matrons
Unusual Cases from the Journals: I
6. Ague
7. Controlling the Junior Doctors
8. Edinburgh and the Beginning of Anaesthesia
9. One of the Physicians
10. 'A Disease almost Unknown in these Parts ...'
Unusual Cases from the Journals: II
11. Poverty in Edinburgh
12. The Fever Epidemics
13. Logistical Problems of the Fever Epidemics
14. Funding the Infirmary in the Fever Years
15. W. T. Gairdner, Pathologist and Physician
Unusual Cases from the Journals: III
16. Edinburgh and the Medical Press
17. A very rare Disease
18. The Infirmary and the Railways
19. Cupping, Leeching and other Activities
20. Smallpox and Measles
Unusual Cases from the Journals: IV
21. The Infirmary and Trauma
22. The Infirmary and the Horse
23. The Infirmary and the Fishing Industry
24. Another Surgeon
25. A Success Story
Unusual Cases from the Journals: V
26. Four Eye Cases
27. The Pox
28. The Terrible Case of David Brown.