The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh have launched a new digital resource – The People’s Dispensary (https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispensary).
This site contains over 10,000 pages of patient case notes from the Royal Edinburgh Dispensary, dating from its foundation in 1776. These notes were created by Edinburgh physician Dr Andrew Duncan. Most patients have at least two or three pages detailing their case, some many more.
The pages are fully transcribed, tagged and searchable. They are indexed by patient name, practitioner name, disease, treatment, symptom and body part.
Records can both be browsed: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispensary/browse/browse.html and searched: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispensary/search/search.html
Some potentially interesting topics they contain are:
• Occupations (not all, about around a quarter of the patient records detail their occupations and the impact those had on their condition)
• Domestic medicine (some notes detail any treatment undertaken by patients before they were admitted into the dispensary)
• Practitioners (the records contain information on 174 practitioners – from physicians and surgeons to folk healers and quacks, not only those in Edinburgh but in England and continental Europe)
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