A 15th-century materia medica, with specifics and a calendar, decorated with ornamental initials and colour. Formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians, it was sold to the Advocates Library by Robert Freebairn, bookseller, in 1736.

Shelfmark: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 758

Photographs and postcards Photographic print on silk of Edith Cavell Postcard includes a description of the training camp Easy French dictionary, with English pronounciation and 'ditches' corrected to trenches. || Fred Asquith, Clayton-le-Moors, enlisted in the Royal Medical Corps and was sent to the Kitchener Hospital at Elm Grove Brighton, which treated wounded soldiers from the Indian Army. He always carried a pocket-sized nurse's dictionary - and OXO cubes! There are photographs from inside the hospital, and from a trip to Southampton before the war. He was posted overseas.