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Hystérie-pithiatisme et troubles nerveux d'ordre réflexe en neurologie de guerre

"Hysteria or pithiatism : and reflex nervous disorders in the neurology of war"

J. Babinski and J. Froment

c. 1918

Lower Library WM 173 BAB

French

Psychological Medicine

Psychological medicine : a short introduction to psychiatry. With an appendix War-time psychiatry

Desmond Curran and Eric Guttmann

c. 1944

Lower Library WM 100 CUR

Edinburgh : E.& S. Livingstone

English

Manic Depressive Insanity and Paranoia

Emil Kraepelin

c. 1921

Lower Library WM 207 KRA

Edinburgh : E.& S. Livingstone

English

The Psychology of Insanity

Bernard Hart

c. 1912

Lower Library WM 140 HAR

Cambridge: University Press

English

Atlas of Clinical Medicine

Sir Byrom Bramwell was a British neurosurgeon, medical author and artist. The illustrations in Bramwell’s atlas were all his own work and based on the cases he came across in his wards at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Sir Byrom Bramwell

c.1892-1896

Bookstore BRA [folio]

Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable at the University Press,

English

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Set of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) in a cardboard box. Includes:

WAIS manual
British supplement to the manual,
Digit-Symbol key
Object Assembly Layout Shield
Word List
Blank Record Forms
Picture arrangement booklet
Picture completion and block design cards booklet
Box containing coloured Block Design pieces
4 plastic bags with Object Assembly Test pieces

NFER Publishing Company Ltd

c. 1971

2018/15.1

38 x 26 x 13 cm

Wodd, paper, card.

David Yellowlees Medal

David Yellowlees medal in leather-covered case.

Dr David Yellowlees was the Physician Superintendent of the Glasgow Royal Asylum (Gartnavel) from 1874 to 1901. He also held the post of Lecturer in Insanity at the University of Glasgow from 1880.

A controversial figure in his day, Yellowlees was an advocate for using restraint in certain patient cases at Gartnavel, despite the majority of asylums moving away from this method.

c. 1901

2003/40.17

Length: 4.7 cm

Leather, metal, satin, velvet, wood.

Robert Cleghorn (c.1760–1821), MD, Physician to the Glasgow Royal Asylum (1814–1818)

Robert Cleghorn gained his medical education at the University of Edinburgh, taking his MD in 1783. He was one of the first managers of Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the first physician to the Glasgow Asylum for the Insane, now Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

Robert Cleghorn studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated MD in 1783 moving to Glasgow in 1785. He entered the Faculty (now Royal College) of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1786, becoming its President between 1789 and 1791 and Librarian from October 1792.

He was physician to the poorhouse or Town’s Hospital in Glasgow between 1786 and 1791 and also one of the original managers of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary which opened in 1794. A number of his casebooks from this period are preserved in the College archive. He subsequently (in 1814) became first physician and then a director of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics in Dobbie’s Loan.

19th century

on loan from Gartnavel Royal Hospital

74 x 61 cm

oil on canvas

Portrait of John Balmanno MD President 1802-1804, 1812-1814

Seated three-quarter length by a desk. Oil on canvas.

The physician John Balmanno was Visiting Physician to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Glasgow Royal Asylum, and served two terms as President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons between 1802 and 1814.

He studied medicine in Edinburgh, graduating in 1798, and was admitted to the College in 1801. He took up his position at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1804, then going on to taking up the role of Visiting Physicians to the Glasgow Royal Asylum in 1821- this post was previously held by Robert Cleghorn.

Balmanno’s mother was a well-known apothecary in the Trongate in Glasgow.

MacNee; Sir; Daniel (1806-1882); Artist, RA); Studio of Sir Daniel Macnee (Chrisitie's) or Raeburn; Sir; Henry (1756-1823); Artist (Gibson, 1983)

19th century

38

125 x 100 cm

Oil on canvas