Collection GB 0120 GC/7 - Cavanagh, John Barr (b 1921)

1 box

This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

GB 0120 GC/7 1958-1977 Collection 1 box Cavanagh , John Barr , b 1921 , Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology

It consists of various papers deliberately assembled by Professor Cavanagh on the subject of Minamata Disease, a neurological disorder caused by methyl mercury poisoning of which there was an epidemic at Minamata Bay in Japan in the 1950s due to industrial pollution of the water. It includes a number of original papers accumulated by Dr Douglas McAlpine who conducted the 1958 investigation at Minamata with Dr S Araki of Kumamto, and also later correspondence of Cavanagh with McAlpine himself and others who help to elucidate the nature and causation of the disease in order to discover the various contributions.

This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Documents on 'Minamata disease', 1958-1977.

box as set out above in Scope and Content.

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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Copied from the Wellcome online catalogue by Barbara Ball

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.

August 2008 Pathology Toxicology Poisoning Mercury poisoning Mercury poisoning, nervous system Medical sciences Cavanagh , John Barr , b 1921 , Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology Japan East Asia Far East

This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

Documents on 'Minamata disease', 1958-1977.

box as set out above in Scope and Content.

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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English

Online catalogue

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.

• anglais