Introductory lecture by John Black Cowan

Reference
- GB 248 DC 003/2/3/4
Dates of Creation
- 1861
Language of Material
- English

Scope and Content

Including a brief history of epidemics from the 17th century and a brief note on mental health

Other Finding Aids

See also University of Glasgow Collections

Archive Record|Table of contents

Papers of Robert Cowan, 1796-1841, and John Black Cowan, 1829-1896, physicians and surgeonsDC 003

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Inverkeithing in favour of Robert Cowan, merchant in BurrowstounnessDC 003/1/1

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Aberdeen in favour of Robert Cowan, merchant in BurrowstounnessDC 003/1/2

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Rutherglen in favour of Harry Horsburgh, merchant in GlasgowDC 003/1/3

Certificate election to membership of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow of Professor John B Cowan, MDDC 003/1/4

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy in favour of Robert Cowan, surgeon in GlasgowDC 003/1/5

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of William Kingan, merchantDC 003/1/6

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of John McCaul CowanDC 003/1/7

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of Alexander CowanDC 003/1/8

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy in favour of John Kingan, merchant in GlasgowDC 003/1/9

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Perth in favour of Robert Cowan, GlasgowDC 003/1/10

Certificate of membership of the Old Revolution Club of John McCaul Cowan, minister of the Gospel at SymingtonDC 003/1/11

Certificate of membership of the Merchant's House, Glasgow, admitting Robert Cowan, Home Trader, as a memberDC 003/1/12

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of Robert Cowan, merchant, whose oath is written aboveDC 003/1/13

Letters Patent appointing Dr Robert Cowan to be Regius Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Forensic Medicine in the University of GlasgowDC 003/1/14

Letters Patent appointing Dr John Black Cowan to be Regius Professor of Materia Medica in the University of GlasgowDC 003/1/15

Diploma of Honorary Doctorate granted by the University of Glasgow to John Cowan, MDDC 003/1/16

Letter to Dr John Cowan expressing their gratitude and good wishes on his retiralDC 003/1/17

Circular letter proposing that Dr Allen Thomson's portrait should be paintedDC 003/1/18

Letter to Dr Cowan from the Office of the Secretary of WarDC 003/1/19

Letter of Instructions to Dr Cowan of his procedure on arriving at Scutari from the Superintendent at RenkioiDC 003/1/20

Circular letter giving terms of service for Civil Hospital in the East, at the period of the Crimean WarDC 003/1/21

Letter from Charles Lindley WoodDC 003/1/22

Letter to Dr Cowan from the War OfficeDC 003/1/23

Letter from the War Office to Dr Cowan informing him that he is to be paid å£24.15.4dDC 003/1/24

Letter of Request for transport for Dr CowanDC 003/1/25

Steamship ticket for Dr Cowan from [Trieste?] to CospoliDC 003/1/26

Letter to Dr Cowan from the War Office (per Fred J Prescott)DC 003/1/27

Volume of Robert Cowan's notesDC 003/2/1/1

Letter from John Cowan concerning his great-grandfather's prescription bookDC 003/2/1/2

Notes of lectures on Materia Medica given by Dr MillerDC 003/2/2/1

Letter from John Cowan to Dean Morris relating to the notes of Dr Miller's lecturesDC 003/2/2/2

Volume containing essays, lecture notes and class exercises 1877DC 003/2/3/0

Introductory lecture on the spread of contagious diseases:DC 003/2/3/1

Introductory lecture by John Black Cowan on epidemic diseasesDC 003/2/3/2

Introductory lecture by John Black Cowan commemorating 100 years of "Materia Medica" at Glasgow University (JBC)DC 003/2/3/3

Introductory lecture by John Black CowanDC 003/2/3/4

Introductory lectureDC 003/2/3/5

Essay on inductive logic by John Black CowanDC 003/2/3/6

Exegesis essay by John Black Cowan entitled Is Induction a distinct species of Reasoning?DC 003/2/3/7

A series of 14 class exercises on mainly pathological mattersDC 003/2/3/8

John Black Cowan's Pathology case notesDC 003/2/3/9

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled On the Moral Effects of Legal Provision for the PoorDC 003/2/3/10

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled On the diagnosis and treatment of the neck of the femurDC 003/2/3/11

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled A Legend of the RhineDC 003/2/3/12

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled On Varicella and its identity with Small PoxDC 003/2/3/13

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled Labore et Honore on What effects are to be ascribed to the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks on European LiteratureDC 003/2/3/14

Notes for essay on the division of nature into animal, vegetable and mineralDC 003/2/3/15

A collection of essays by Robert Black Cowan, one entitled A Description of the 1st Eclogue of VirgilDC 003/2/4/1

Introductory lecture by Robert Cowan concerning clinical instruction at Glasgow Royal InfirmaryDC 003/2/4/2

Text by John Black Cowan entitled On the Moral Effects of a Legal Provision of the PoorDC 003/2/4/3

John Black Cowan's prize essay for the Materia Medica class entitled On the Beelbaru Bark , including coloured sketches of the barkDC 003/2/5

John Black Cowan's notes on practical pharmacology and the preparation of medicinesDC 003/2/6/1

Sheet of pencilled notes with an extract of a poem on Bannockburn by ScottDC 003/2/6/2