GB 0120 MSS 0883-0921, 5792-5797 - Aldrich-Blake, Louisa Brandreth (1865-1925)

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GB 0120 MSS 0883-0921, 5792-5797

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Aldrich-Blake, Louisa Brandreth (1865-1925)

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  • 1886-1925 (Creation)

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42 notebooks, 1 file, 2 diplomas

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Biographical history

Entered the London Medical School for Women 1887, MB 1892, BS and gold medal for surgery 1893, MD 1894, MS (first woman to attain) 1895. Practised as a surgeon in London, and from 1910-1925 was surgeon to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. She was also surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. 1914-1925 Dean, London Medical School for Women. Served with Women's Unit under the Anglo-French Red Cross in France during the First World War. Created Dame of the British Empire, 1925.

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GB 0120 MSS 0883-0921, 5792-5797 1886-1925 Collection (fonds) 42 notebooks, 1 file, 2 diplomas Blake , Dame , Louisa Brandreth , Aldrich- , 1865-1925 , surgeon

Entered the London Medical School for Women 1887, MB 1892, BS and gold medal for surgery 1893, MD 1894, MS (first woman to attain) 1895. Practised as a surgeon in London, and from 1910-1925 was surgeon to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. She was also surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. 1914-1925 Dean, London Medical School for Women. Served with Women's Unit under the Anglo-French Red Cross in France during the First World War. Created Dame of the British Empire, 1925.

Presented by Rosamond Wigram to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1926.

One notebook on practical chemical analysis while at St Hilda's School Cheltenham, notebooks of lectures and courses while a student at London School of Medicine for Women, notes of cases seen while medical student, some later notebooks on matters of medical and surgical interest, and accounting lectures, diploma from the Comité Britannique de la Croix Rouge Française for service to France during the First World War, resolution from the Medical Women's Federation congratulating her on being made a Dame of the British Empire.

Two blocks of manuscripts; within each, material is held in chronological order.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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Item descriptions in S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, II, MSS. Written after 1650 A.D. A-M (London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973), pp. 20-21 and Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999), p.149.

4 notebooks among archives of London Medical School for Women (presented by Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at the request of Lady Barrett, 1927)

Description compiled by Lesley Hall, based upon entries in Moorat and Palmer. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. July 2001 Awards Blake , Dame , Louisa Brandreth , Aldrich- , 1865-1925 , surgeon x Aldrich-Blake , Dame , Louisa Brandreth Chemistry education Clinical medicine Comité Britannique de la Croix Rouge Française Educational systems Europe France Girls education Higher science education International conflicts London School of Medicine for Women Medical education Medical personnel Medical profession Medical sciences Medical Women's Federation Military medicine Personnel Physicians Science education Social behaviour Social norms St Hilda's School , Cheltenham Surgery War Western Europe Women physicians Womens education World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Wars (events) People by occupation People

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Presented by Rosamond Wigram to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1926.

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One notebook on practical chemical analysis while at St Hilda's School Cheltenham, notebooks of lectures and courses while a student at London School of Medicine for Women, notes of cases seen while medical student, some later notebooks on matters of medical and surgical interest, and accounting lectures, diploma from the Comité Britannique de la Croix Rouge Française for service to France during the First World War, resolution from the Medical Women's Federation congratulating her on being made a Dame of the British Empire.

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Two blocks of manuscripts; within each, material is held in chronological order.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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English

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Finding aids

Item descriptions in S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, II, MSS. Written after 1650 A.D. A-M (London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973), pp. 20-21 and Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999), p.149.

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Wellcome Library

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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