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Papers of Norah Woodman, 1906-1938, comprising an account of her training as a nurse in 1906; miscellaneous material on the Lambeth Infirmary/Hospital, including annual reports, 1921-1938; financial statements of the Parish of St Mary, Lambeth Board of Guardians, 1910-1929.

Reports, correspondence, published and unpublished papers, 1933-1974, specifically A: Research files and correspondence, 1933-1958; B: texts of papers, c 1933-1955; C: published papers, 1933-1976; D: correspondence files, 1955-1974.

Unpublished autobiography of Charles Wilcocks: 'A Tropical Doctor in Africa and London' with some associated biographical material. Contents: Chapter 1 The First World War Page 1; Chapter 2 Demobilization Page 33; Chapter 3 First Tour in Tanganyika, 1927-30 Page 41; Chapter 4 Second Tour in Tanganyika, 1927-30 Page 73; Chapter 5 Tuberculosis research Page 85; Chapter 6 Third Tour in Tanganyika, 1934-37 Page 99; Chapter 7 At the Bureau of Hygiene... Page 133; Chapter 8 Retirement from the Bureau, 1961 Page 190; Chapter 9 Interlude on greatness Page 201; Chapter 10 Personalities Page 215; Chapter 11 Conclusions Page 232; Epilogue Page 267; Bibliography Page 272.

Cassette tape and transcript of an interview, 1993, with Professor Kurt Hellman, Professor Gerald Westbury and Dr Kenneth Newton, former colleagues of Sir Stanford Cade at Westminster Hospital. Their reminiscences cover the closure of the radiotherapy department at Westminster and the re-organisation of the National Health Service in the 1980s, as well as their early years and the work of cancer therapy under Cade.

Papers of Charles Wenyon, 1900-1916, comprising Zoology notebooks as a student at University College London, c 1900-1905; field notebook while with HM Forces in Egypt 1916 (work on intestinal protozoa).

Papers of Wathen Ernest Waller and his sister Dorothy, 1912-1944, notably illustrated typescript account of service in Iraq, 1916-1918; inventory for insurance purposes of house, including contents of surgery; materials relating to Miss Waller's work in the Red Cross and the Voluntary Aid Detachment, 1912-1920.

Background papers concerning ULAVC collection of medical films and videos now held by the Wellcome Trust, 1971-1986. Most files include at least the videotape production completion form, information sheets, and the agreement signed by the contributor permitting the loan or sale of the recording. Some files include publicity material, correspondence with the contributor, scripts, shot-lists, and related reprints, illustrative materials etc.

Order and account books of Bristol University Physiology Department, 1910-1980 (63 volumes), including Veterinary Department, 1949-1962, order books, 1925-1959, animal register, 1948-1968, repairs and supplies, 1959-1962, capital and revenue accounts, 1948-1980.

Drug registers, 1945-1955, and cash books, 1951-1957.

"Report of Special Operational Store Tyburn, Jan-Nov 1945", by Marinus van den Ende (1912-1957), bacteriologist; and notes and photographs by Dr Helène E. Bargmann, PhD, FRZS, ATS (1897-1987), biologist.

'Report of Special Operational Store Tyburn, Jan-Nov 1945', by Marinus van den Ende (1912-1957), bacteriologist; and notes and photographs by Dr Helène E. Bargmann, PhD, FRZS, ATS (1897-1987), biologist.

Tapes of interviews used as the basis for a BBC Radio 3 programme entitled 'Stuffing their Mouths with Gold', on the origins of the National Health Service, broadcast in 1982. A total of ten tapes, interviewees include Rt Hon Enoch Powell, MP, Minister of Health, 1960-1963, Frank Honigsbaum, historian of the NHS, Rt Hon Michael Foot MP, biographer of Aneurin Bevan.

Papers of Adrian Durham Stokes, painter and writer, comprising photocopies of letters from Melanie Klein, 1946-1958.

Report and correspondence on prevalance of spirilium fever and possible vectors, 1913.

Scrapbook on the subject of the use of sphagnum moss as a sugical dressing. Contents include: Carbon copy report by Charles W Cathcart, MB, FRCS, to the Director General, Army Medical Services, Jan 1916; copies of correspondence between Sir Henry Morris, FRCS, and the Marquis of Breadalbane, Jan 1916; newspaper cuttings, 1915-1919 and photograph of 'Drying and packing at the Glenelg Hotel, September 1915'.

John Simons papers, comprising an annual report, handing-over files, etc., Sudan Medical Service, Kordofan Province, 1927-1931; copy of memoir of Second World War service in North Africa and Italy; papers relating to the Parachute Field Ambulance and description of return of GOC, British Troops in Hong Kong after end of Second World War.

Correspondence and financial papers of P A Gordon (alias James Kasper) relating to Sequah Ltd, 1890-1892 and his work as a Sequah agent selling quack medicines, including a variety of advertising material and copies of the Sequah Chronicle.

Papers of Milosh Sekulich, 1932-1962; notably correspondence, notes, case records, and draft writings pertaining to his study of tuberculosis and its classification, mainly 1953-1962.

Papers of Jaques Frederic Alexandre Schupbach, 1945-1988, relating to the Society for the Study of Physiological Patterns (of which he was a founder), and other materials on alternative medicine, including lecture notes, correspondence and case notes, 1945-1988.

Savory and Moore prescription registers, 1912-1944.

Correspondence, press cuttings and records of establishment and administration of first aid courses in this campaign sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, 1985-1988.

Chiefly comprising the records of the Royal Maternity Charity, 1761-1949, notably minutes, 1761-1949 and the casebook of Robert Barnes, 1857-1868; Account of Royal Maternity Charity, 1829.

Cours de Chimie. Rédigé d'après les Leçons de Mr. Rouelle et transcrit en 1762. The half-title of Vol. I is 'Cours de Chimie. 1761'. The second volume is headed: 'Cours de Chymie rédigé d'après les Leçons de Mr. Rouelle, et transcrit en 1762. Commencé le IIe fevrier de cette présente année sur les cahiers de Mr. Vincent de Billi, venus de M. Huet par M. David qui les tenoit de M. Diderot'. At the end of the volume is a note: 'Mr. Rouelle a fini son Cours de Chymie ce 29e mai 1762 ... et il l'a commencé le 16e novembre 1761'. Produced in Paris.

Empyrica adversus Dogmaticismum vindicata, seu de Medicina Empyrica restituenda libri tres. Author's holograph MS. A very controversial work, apparently unpublished, which must have involved extensive research into medical literature. Among the many hundreds of notes and references is an added paragraph to Note 424 of the third volume, which is dated 1766.

MISSING SINCE 1983. Account books and Post book, relating to Roots' business as an apothecary, 1749-1853.

Personal and professional correspondence, photographs and papers of George Rolleston and his son Sir Humphry Rolleston, 1805-1947. There are also miscellaneous Rolleston family papers, as well as 2 papers given by John Davy Rolleston. George Rolleston's main areas of research were in comparative anatomy, zoology, archaeology, anthropology - his correspondence was often with contempories who were prominent in the same or related fields (botanists, biologists, natural historians). Humphry Rolleston was a keen photographer, and his albums contain a total of 323 photographs. These include portraits of relatives and friends, as well as contemporaries who were subsequently prominent in medicine and surgery. There are also general photographs taken during his career in medicine which are of interest for medical historians. His correspondence and papers cover both professional and personal matters.

Notes of Rodati's lectures compiled by students, c 1830, produced in Bologna.

Notes, taken while a Student at Edinburgh University, of lectures by John Rutherford, William Cullen, John Gregory and Alexander Monro [1733-1817]. Vol. I Gregory (John). Clinical lectures. 1773 (pp 1-204). Cullen (William). Clinical lectures (pp 205-935). Vol. II Monro (A.). Lectures anatomical and physiological (pp 1-253). Operations in surgery (pp 254-365). On the first preliminary leaf, containing notes of a case, is the date 1775. Vol. III Cullen (W.). Part of a course on the Institutes of Medicine (275 pp). Vol. IV Rutherford (J.). Clinical lectures (pp 1-316). Monro (A.). Treatise on wounds in general (pp. 317-386). A treatise on bandages (pp. 368-430). This last volume is in a smaller quarto. It is dated 1752 on p 1, but this may be the date when the lectures were first given. The script is apparently the same as that of the preceding volumes.

Institutionum medicinae pars prima [-sexta]. Vol. I. Economia animalis. Pathologia. Vol. II. Semilogia. Hygiene. Therapeutica. Vol. III. Praxis medicinae specialis. Apparently the author's holograph MSS., and perhaps the text of lectures. Produced in Catania?.

Recensus scriptorum celebriorum, seu Delectus autorum libris et lucubrationibus suis magis illustrium, ex Romano-Catholicorum, Heterodoxorum, ac Gentilium virorum ordine, compendiosa relatione perspicuus, ad cognoscenda et dignoscenda authorum nomina, libros, scripta, statum atque aetatem, anagnostae publico ac privato accomodus ex variis recentioribus conscriptus. At the end of the second volume are lists of Roman Emperors, Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, Kings of France, Spain, Hungary, Bohemia, and England. The latest date is that of the coronation of Francis I, husband of Maria Theresa, as Emperor 4th October 1745: Philip V of Spain, who died in 1746, is entered as still reigning. Items on the Papal Index [1681-1734] are marked in red. Each volume is stamped on the sides with an unidentified coat of arms, and lettered P.A.M.N.

Le Pharmacien accomply. Ou le Cabinet pharmaceutique. Contenant des moyens familières et facilles pour bien connoistre, distinguer et médicamenter les maladies ordinaires et extraordinaires qui peuvent arriver à l'homme, tant par préceptes astrologiques et Galénistes que par remèdes chymiques. Avec l'Antidotaire. Le tout reduict en ordre pour suppléer au véritable Médecin, et mis en pratique par F[rère] Is[aac] Q[uatroux] R[éligieux] M[édecin] or[dre] M[inime]. These MSS., now divided into two volumes, formed originally one volume. There is a pen-drawn historiated frontispiece to the 'Antidotaire': texts within black rules. The Antidotire is dated 1662, the other volume 1663.

Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted in 1988 by Sam Sussman with three Nottingham psychiatrists (A.D. Douglas, E.D. Oram and A. Minto). Mr. Sussman's intention had been to produce a history of psychiatric treatment in the U.K. through the eyes of its practitioners similar to the one he had already produced on Canada; copies of this work (Pioneers of Mental Health and Social Change by Djuwe Joe Blom and Sam Sussman, Third Eye, London Canada, 1989) are also included in this collection. A.D. Douglas and E.D. Oram of Saxondale Hospital were interviewed first; the recordings were typed up and subsequently corrected and slightly amended, evidently in preparation for the publication. The interviewees discuss their training and experiences as psychiatrists and the changes in the profession from the 1940's and 1950's. The Wellcome Library subsequently received cassettes of those interviews, as well as a cassette and transcript of a similar interview with Dr Alfred Minto of Nottingham.

Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1809-[1840], including on the growth of plants, polarity theory and the history of physic.

A collection of extracts and notes on alchemy, with a detailed account of the unidentified author's own experiments. This set of MSS. seems to have been begun in 1828 [cf. Vol. I] and the latest date found is in Vol. V, p. 102 'Aujourd'hui 1. Ap. 1834'. On fol. 772 of Vol. I he speaks of having been engaged on alchemical researches 'pendant plus de 30 ans', and on pp. 74-77 of the same volume, he gives details of various experiments and processes tried out from 1810 to 1825.

Prescriptions dispensed to various individuals by chemists in Central London, Harrow, Nottingham and Taunton, covering 1918-1946.

A medical commonplace book: in Latin. Title-pages seem to have been cut out from the first two volumes. Written by the same hand as MS. 854 [Adversaria] and on the rectos only. The date 1821 is found in Vol. II, p. 396.

Material on medical history (particularly on syphilis) and the history of the Power and Simpson families; correspondence, 1890-1940.

Papers of William Arthur Pool, namely notes taken at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, c 1921, while following a course on animal disease. Book VI of seven.

Papers on alchemy by Albert Poisson, including correspondence, translations, essays, notes on chemistry, John Dee, the occult, extracts from books on alchemy, 1885-1904.

Collection of extracts on the Plague, from the earliest times to 1687. An encyclopaedic collection of excerpts from works of physicians and others who have written on the subject, with references in each case to the books consulted: it includes also notes of prescriptions for prevention and cure, and is for the most part in Latin, though there are also extracts from English writers.

Praxeos medicinae libri II-IV. Authore D. D. Paschale Pisciottano, ad usum Joachimi de Angelis. Lecture-notes of a student at Naples University, of which Vol. I is wanting. The lectures are all by Pisciottanus except the second in Book IV 'De morbis venereis', which is by Francesco Dolce: and the last of the same Book 'De herniis', given by Agnello Firelli. Contents: Praxeos liber II. De morbis pectoris (1 l. + 37 ff. + 3 ll. (last 2 bl.)). III. De morbis abdominis (1 l. + 144 ff. + 4 bl. ll.). IV. De febribus. De morbis venereis. De morbis mulierum. De morbis infantum. De herniis (3 ll. + 269 ff. + 1 bl. l.). Produced in Naples.

Carbon copies of typescript quarterly reports, July 1956-December 1957, to the World Health Organisation's Regional Director, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, with some monthly progress reports and more detailed breakdowns of activities. Most of the reports are accompanied by photographs and manuscript maps and statistics.

Notes on physiology, diseases and their treatment, and chemistry and material medica, [1875-1880].

Summary of cases, classified by disease, by an unnamed doctor at an unidentifiable London hospital, 1901. The volume contains very brief tabulated entries of cases treated, arranged by disease and giving number of patient, surname, age and sex, a number which is presumably that of the ward, and a letter or letters indicating outcome: C=cured, D=died, Un=?unknown, Transf=?transferred to another ward or hospital, AOR=?admitted on another register? Entries sometimes include a brief note of other conditions found or discovered to be the problem rather than the presenting trouble. At the end are some summary lists of deaths, patients transferred to other registers and patients sent to the surgeon.

Papers of Dr Frank Richard Philps, comprising 'Prisoner Doctor', an account of his experiences as an RAF Medical Officer during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, 1942-1945; Chapter 1 Into the Bag Page 1; Chapter 2 Hippocrates Go Hang Page 17; Chapter 3 Haruku I Epidemic Page 33; Chapter 4 Haruku II Yeast Page 58; Chapter 5 Haruku III Coral Page 86; Chapter 6 Ambon Page 92; Chapter 7 Return to Java Page 96; Chapter 8 Return to Singapore Page 105; Chapter 9 Changi Gaol Page 115; Chapter 10 Return to Life Page 125.

Extent of the Estates of the Hospitallers in England. Taken under the direction of Prior Philip de Thame A.D. 1338. Transcribed from the original in the Public Library at Malta-1839-by me Lamb[er]t B[lackwell] Larking. Transcriber's holograph MSS.

Various prescription books, 1873-1917, 12 items: batch books, 1925-1951, and sales cash books, n.d., from unknown pharmacies (probably all in the London area, and the prescriptions books of a pharmacy based in Kensington).

Notes taken by students of lectures including those by Caietano Petrone, Naples, some family notes and poetry, [1766-1777].

Cours de Maladies internes, traittées par M.re Petit, Docteur et Professeur de Médecine au Jardin du Roy. Vol. II. This contains Partie 3: Maladies séreuses, and Partie 4: Maladies de cacochimie non virulentes. V. This contains Partie 5: Fistules. Poisons. This is followed by: Cours de Médecine pratique, Partie 1. Généralités. Playes, Maladies des yeux. Louis (Antoine) [1723-1792] Mémoire sur la certitude des signes de la mort. This MS. contains notes of Petit's lectures, etc. written by a student named Poinsot, whose signature is found on each title-page and at the end of sections. Produced in Paris.

Catalogue of 616 varieties of British Lepidoptera: with a separate Index-volume. Compiler, Geoffrey Peskett's holograph manuscript. This Catalogue seems to have been begun in 1906, the latest date in Vol. III is 1922.