Certificate

Description

Certificate of attendance at the Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital, issued to James Edwards and signed by James Hamilton, Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh, dated 24 April 1836

Museum reference

T.1994.3

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Certificate

Production information

Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital, Issuer
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1836

Materials

Paper

Physical description

Paper

Associations

Recipient: James Edwards, d. 17 December 1878
Signatory: Hamilton, James, Professor, 1767 - 1839
Hamilton, Alexander, Professor, 1739 - 1802

Exhibitions

• Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life (02 Jul 2022 - 30 Oct 2022)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Edinburgh & Medicine: a commemorative catalogue of the Exhibition ..., compiled by R.G.W. Anderson and A.D.C. Simpson, 1976, p. 50, item 319

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 65, 1958; J. Sturrock, 122

Dictionary of National Biography

Nomina Eorem que Gradum Medicinae Doctoris in Academia Jacobi serti scotorum Regis quae Edinburgi est, adepti sunt, 1528 - 1845, p. 111