https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/files/original/cf25af51e7c5496c8f14879e7ce3ce96.jpg 5e3cf29d652d1d9305e76b4517e73c9a https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/files/original/784112e86cad3b2a63a87eb7ad618eb4.pdf f22a14d9ed4b0e87b90b6f965e9984a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Archives Subject The topic of the resource Archive collections Description An account of the resource The archives of the College date from 1602, from our first minute book, to licentiate registers, to comprehensive records of the College’s activities up to the present day. We also hold deposited archive collections from some of the physicians and surgeons who have been associated with the College over hundreds of years. Connecting to our locality in the West of Scotland, we also hold many records relating to local medical societies and associations. We've digitised a selection of items from our archive collections, and we add new items regularly. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data manuscript volume Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 18th century book of herbal remedies Description An account of the resource <p><iframe width="480" height="430" src="https://archive.org/stream/BookOfHerbalRemedies/Herbal?ui=embed#mode/2up" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p>Whilst it is impossible to know exactly when we first started using herbs and plants for medicinal purposes, archaeological evidence suggests that herbs have been used in Scotland since the Bronze age. Indeed the use of herbs as healing remedies goes back to the very beginnings of medicine itself, from 3700 B.C. Egypt, followed by the Chinese and later the Greeks and Romans. The earliest written account of herbal remedies comes from China and dates back to 2800 B.C.</p> <p>In Scotland there has been a long held tradition of herbal folk medicine. However, written accounts of commonly used remedies did not appear until very much more recent times, knowledge of plants having been initially passed from generation to generation by word of mouth. Particularly in the more remote areas of Scotland, folk medicine was handed down by tradition, with little change, until the 17th Century. Opportunities for medical education were limited, and means of transport extremely bad, making it difficult for medical practitioners to reach patients out with the principal towns. As a result many had to rely to a great extent upon remedies which were available locally.</p> <p>The provenance is unknown for the College’s 18th century herbal but it is believed to come from lowland Scotland. It was digitised courtesy of the Scottish Archive Network and is an excellent example of the way in which the remedies, previously passed from generation to generation as an oral tradition, began to be collected together in hand-written volumes. Many examples of similar documents can be found within collections of household manuscripts, correspondence and accounts, and it would appear that many households across the social spectrum kept such documents</p> <p>Many herbals, particularly those belonging to Scottish land-owning families, were very decorative, typically leather bound and often interspersed with ornately decorated pages with drawings and elaborate hand-writing. Individual volumes were often written in different hands with recipes and remedies occasionally being attributed to individuals. Indeed a particular 18th century volume (in the National Library of Scotland) entitled ‘Physick and Cookery of various Kinds’ compiled by Martha Bruce, Countess of Elgin, contains contributions from eminent individuals including Dr Herman Boerhaave’s cure for Chilblains and Asthma and remedies from Dr Ratcliffe, Physician to Queen Anne.</p> <p>Herbals often contained not only herbal remedies but also recipes and beauty and household remedies, and in later years, the traditional household herbal came to resemble more of a cookery book with sections for herbal remedies being relegated to the back of the volume. The remedies and recipes often remained unchanged with the same herbs and methods being used for centuries.</p> <p>This particular volume is only a small illustration of the abundance of similar material which can be found in public and private collections of household papers, and provides a small insight into the strong tradition of herbal medicine which has existed in Scotland down the ages.</p> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCPSG/1/20/3/1 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18th century Language A language of the resource English Apothecary Herbal Medicine https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/files/original/23bbf885bf73be262b57dfb36e458160.jpg dff6dd15edcebb8056a9a6d6ca84ef18 https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/files/original/ddae1549f778f404c2f0a3c117544b0c.jpg a8b3111f7a35366d7f798dfc1569acb1 https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/files/original/562d8f853710cb34507d40242e097e02.jpg 0e36c7fd5963fee39de08180241b89fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books Subject The topic of the resource Book collections Description An account of the resource The College Library was founded in 1698 when Faculty members donated books for our first home at the Trongate in Glasgow. We have been collecting books both old and new ever since, and our collection of rare books stretches back to the 15th century. We hold many fine examples of important historical texts, with particularly strong representation in medicine, surgery, botany and materia medica from the 18th and 19th centuries. We also hold a collection of several thousand medical pamphlets from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Most of the book collection can be found on our online catalogue and we regularly add new records to make our collections more discoverable. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A curious herbal Description An account of the resource A curious herbal : containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Blackwell Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1737-1739 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Bookstore BLA [oversize] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available London : printed for Samuel Harding in St. Martin's Lane Book Herbal Medicine Illustration