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Engraving from book West Port Murders, A laconic narrative : [1829]

PC1, box 30, Folder 5, Item 5
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: A laconic narrative of the Life & Death of James Wilson known by the name of Daft Jamie. In which are interspersed, several anecdotes relative to him and his old friend Boby Awl, an idiot who strolled about Edinburgh for many years. He's to be pitied, that's such a silly elf, who cannot speak nor wrestle for himself. Jamie was such a simpleton, he'd not fight with a boy; nor did he ever curse or swear, at those who'd him annoy. Published by W. Smith, Bristo Port, Edina. Price Thrip Pence. 1829. Reprinted (1881) by A. & G. Brown, 15 Bristo Place and the Mound, Edinburgh.

Engraving of a theatre of anatomy : [16--]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 2
File
[190-?]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a reproduction of an engraving. Accompanying note states: Andreas Stog's Engracving of Pieter Paaw's Theatre of Anatomy -- the first of its kind -- which was built in Leyden, 1589 -- the first one erected in the Low Countries.

Engraving of Authentic Confessions of William Burk : [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 8
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Text reads: AUTHENTIC CONFESSIONS OF WILLIAM BURK, Who was Executed at Edinburgh, on 28th January 1829, for Murder, emited before the Sheriff-Substitute of Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr. Reid, Catholic Priest, and others, in the Jail, on 3rd and 22d January. EDINBURGH: Printed and Sold by R. Menzies, Lawnmarket. 1829. Price Twopence.

Engraving of Claudius Galen (131-201AD)

PC1, Box 30, Folder 4
File
[1881]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a bust of Claudius Galen. Inscription:
P.P. Rubens Del: Ex Marmore Antiquo. J. Faber sen[io]r Fecit.
GALEN
A most excellent Physitian, born at Pirgamos in Asia. He was a great improver or the Hypocratick System of Physick, and
the beginner of that Method of Practice [unknown abbreviation] has been used from his time till lately, & from him called Galenick. He is said to have been
author of 200 volumes y were burnt in y temple of peace. And is numberd by Garden among y12 most subtil wits of the World. He was of a [illegible] & crazy constitution yet by temperance preserved his life to a great age. He died about the middle ... [illegible due to damage].
Accompanying note: CLAUDIUS GALEN (131-201 A.D.)
Galen was the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates. His original investigations concerned chiefly Anatomy. In the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Vol. IV., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881, can be found a series of articles about Galen, written by Dr. George Jackson Fisher.

Engraving of Dr. Knox, the anatomist of the West Port Murders [1791-1862]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 12
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Image is of Dr. Knox with his hand on a book as if being sworn in. Inscription is illegible. Accompanying note reads: Robert Knox, The Anatomist : 1791-1862.

Engraving of Frederick II, Emperor of Germany

PC1, Box 30, Folder 6
File
[19--?]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a medallion with the profile image of Frederick II of Germany. Inscription: Frederick II from a Medallion in the Church della Porto Santo in Andria.
Accompanying note: Frederick II., (1194-1250), Emperor of Germany, King of the Two Sicilies, the last one of the Christian Kings of Jerusalem, the Author of a Treatise which contains a Complete Account of the Anatomy of the Falcon.

Engraving of Henry VIII granting a charter to the Barber-Surgeons' of London

PC1, Box 64, Folder 21
File
[19-?]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a black and white reproduction of an engraving of a painting. Note attached reads: This is a copy of Hans Holbein's picture, which was painted whilst the artist was enjoying the favour of Henry VIII., showing the granting of a Charter to the Barber Surgeons of London.

Engraving of page of book West Port Murders, character statements : [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 11
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Text reads:
West Port Murders.
Characters
Of
BURK, HARE, AND, Dr. KNOX.
[From the Noctes Ambrosiance of Blackwood's Magazine for March 1829.]
BEING PART OF A CONVERSATION BETWEEN NORTH, TICKLER, AND THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.

Shepherd. - Did you ever see sic a preparation o' a skeleton o' a turkey? We maun send it to the College Museum, to staun in a glass case aside Burk's.
North. - What did you think, James, of the proceedings of these two Irish gentlemen?
Shepherd. - That the were too monotonous too impress the imagination. First ae drunk auld wife, and then anither drunk auld wife - and then a third drunk auld wife - and then a drunk auld or sick man or twa. The confession got unco monotonous - the Lights and Shadows o' Scottish Death want relief - though, to be sure, poor Peggy paterson, that Unfortunate, broke in a little on the uniformity ; and sae did Daft Jamie ; for whilk last murder, without ony impiety, ane may venture to say, the Devil is at this moment ruggin' that Burk out o' hell fire wi' a three-prong'd fork, and then in wi' him again, through the ribs - and then stirring up the coals wi' that eternal poker - and then wi' the great bellows blawin' up the furnace, till like an Etna, or Mount Vesuvius, it vomits the murderer out again far ower into the very middle o' the floor o' the infernal regions.
R. Menzies, Printer, Edinburgh.

Engraving of Portrait of Daft Jamie : [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: Portrait of Daft Jamie. See the impudence of that little boy, challenging Jamie to fight with him ; had Jamie possessed the spink o' a louse, he would have taken him and drawn his neck, as a poultry man draws a hen's; but what else can be expected from such pigmy delinquents, when so much encouragement is given to vice.

Engraving of portrait of Helen McDougal : [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 9
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Inscription reads: Helen McDougal as she appeared at the Bar taken in Court. Published by Thomas Ireland Jun[io]r. Edin[burgh].

Engraving of portrait of Margaret Laird or Hare and baby: [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 10
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Inscription reads: Margaret Laird or Hare as she appeared in the witness box taken in Court. Published by Thomas Ireland Jun[io]r. Edinburgh.

Engraving of the Conversion of Galen [1798]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 7
File
[1798?]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a reproduction of an engraving. Inscription: Engraved by J. Caldwell. GALENT CONVERSIO.
Accompanying note:
THE CONVERSION OF GALEN.
This undated copperplate, engraved by J. Caldwell, is found in Vol. IV., third edition, of an anonymous work entitled, Medical Extracts, or the Nature of Health, London, 1798. It is credited to Dr. Robert John Thornton.

Engraving of the Execution of William Burke taken on the spot : [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: Execution of William Burke taken on the spot. Published by Thomas Ireland Jun[io]r Edinburgh.

Engraving of William Burke as he appeared at the Bar : [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: William Burke as he appeared at the Bar taken in Court. Published by Thomas Ireland Jun[io]r Edinburgh.

Engraving of William Hare as he appeared in the witness box taken in Court : [1829]

PC1, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
[1829]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: William Hare as he appeared in the witness box taken in Court. Published by Thomas Ireland J Jun[io]r Edinburgh.

Epsom Salt

MS-2-671, SF Box 99, Folder 2, Item 18
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Alexander Sutherland Murray fonds

Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920. Caption says "If “Salts” have lost its savour where with shall it be salted?"

Ernest Ansermet : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 10, Folder 11
File
1949

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