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Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner
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Neil Stewart watercolour

Neil Stewart watercolour. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Cancerous softening of the brain closely resembling ordinary red and yellowish softening to unaided senses but its nature clearly demonstrated on microscopic observations. No tumour. Woman aet 52. Cancer of uterus, liver etc."

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Neil Stewart watercolour

Neil Stewart watercolour. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Peculiar lesion of corpus striatum-case of tetanus."

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Neil Stewart watercolour

Neil Stewart watercolour. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Tubercle of liver. (See microscopic [--illegible--] Aug 29th, 1849) Case of tuberculosis (Robert Campbell)"

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Neil Stewart watercolour

Neil Stewart watercolour. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Dilated gallbladder and ducts with jaundice. Slight ulceration at duodenal papilla but orifice in dead body quite pervious. The cause of the obstruction not altogether apparent. Gallbladder was attached and densely matted to thickened omentum. Hence an error of diagnosis (supposed to be a case of enlarged and canerous liver). Patient, a soldier aged 80, who had served at Walcheren in 1811."

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Neil Stewart watercolour

Neil Stewart watercolour showing 3 illustrations..Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Firm cancerous nodules in 'liver (secondary)'. Case of cancer of --illegible-- stomach. Aet 46 (Kennedy)"

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Neil Stewart watercolour

Neil Stewart watercolour. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Disease of spleen associated with leukemia. Thomson, male, aet 45." (Microscopic drawings 25-7-1851. Physiological Society, July 1851)

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Neil Stewart watercolours

Two separate illustrations by Neil Stewart, each signed and mounted together. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Sections of lung, the surface of which is shown in another drawing. The upper drawing shows a section of emphysematous portion near the anterior border of lung, the bronchi thickened and containing pus, the mucuous membrane highly congested. The lower drawing is only so far completed in detail as to show a cartilaginous bronchus divided in its length and opening into an irregular cavity lined by a well-formed smooth membrane and closed by a fibrous piece and several partial [--illegible--] such are sometimes seen in tuberculous excavations. There was no tubercle."

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Painting of two bones

Painting of two bones. One is titled 'Medulla Ossium Rubra', while the other is called 'Medulla Ossium Lympahdenoides'.

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Pathological drawing

Engraving, signed "WTG" in ink. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read: "Scorbutic gums. Engraved on a wood block from a sketch in watercolours taken from nature in Edinburgh."

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Pathology Drawings

  • MS 16
  • Collection
  • 1848 - 1998
This collection consists of various pathological materials, including watercolour drawings, engravings and photographs. The majority of the pathological watercolours, dated between 1848 and 1855 are by Neil Stewart and feature comments by Sir William Tennant Gairdner, the eminent pathologist and physician. Other names featured include Henry Scott Lauder, James F. Goodhart, W. Hurst, John Richard Farre, J. Smith, Dr. Greenfield, Dr. Goodheart, Prof. Alfred Kast, Dr. Theodor Rumpel, Mr J. Campbell Mclure, M. Arnold Ruffner, William McArtney, T.O. Affleck, A. McPhail, Henry Scott Lauder, Robert Lee, Jonathon Hutchinson and Professor McDonald

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Piece of card

Piece of card entitled "Pathological Laboratory, University College, Dundee - Nerves"

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Piece of card

Piece of card entitled "Pathological Laboratory, University College, Dundee - Liver"

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Transcripts from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Patient notes

Folder containing 34 typescript transcripts from patient notes of patients admitted to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary c 1850-1851. [Compiled by W. L. Yule?]. Two copies of notes for each named patient. Also floppy disk containing Pathology Case Notes 1-34. [Notes relate to the subjects of the drawings].

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Watercolour

Unsigned watercolour but it is likely the work of Neil Stewart. Commentry by W.T. Gairdner reads "Colon of Pat McGuire aet 6. Unvaccinated. Admitted to E.R.I. with smallpox and died on the fourth day of the eruption. There were violent haemorrhages from the bowels --missing--. Blood was found extravasated also after death in kidneys and lung. The appearances here --missing-- and exact rep [?] were regarded as a smallpox eruption occuring on the mucous membrane --missing--. See Ed. Med. Journal, Feb 1849 p549 {?}. Jan 1849"

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

Watercolour

Unsigned watercolour but probably by Neil Stewart. Comments by W.T. Gairdner read "Kidney in acute process of degeneration with complete necrosis (gangrene without foetor [?]) of considerable portions of cortical substance. Case of Wm. Saunders. Cholera, rapidly suceeding smallpox. Section seen in another drawing."

Neil Stewart and William Tennant Gairdner

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