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The collection chiefly comprises material relating to the latter part of Hodgkin's life, the 1850s and 1860s, following his marriage to Sarah Frances Scaife. Included are items relevant to Hodgkin's marriage and personal life (his marriage certificate, letters to his wife, miscellaneous papers relating to him and his wife, papers related to the subsequent history of the Scaife family and a Hodgkin pedigree book); papers relating to Hodgkin's lobbying and philanthropic activities during the years of his marriage; and a memorandum on the relationship of religion and physiology, drafted during this late period of his life but based upon discussions with Samuel Tuke that took place in 1821, while Hodgkin was still a student.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Morell Mackenzie including on goitre and Mackenzie's treatment of the Emperor Frederick III, 1864-1891.

Correspondence of Charles Clay including letters to Clay from various correspondents, 1842-1890 and autograph album compiled from letters to Clay, containing signatures, fragments, and a few whole letters. The album consists of a volume of printed legal papers for the Glasgow Autumn Circuit 1846, the autographs being pasted over the printed matter.

Records of the Bristol ethnic minorities health investigation including questionnaires, interview transcripts, cassette tapes, and published results of survey of concepts of illness, use of health services, etc, among Punjabi-speaking women in Bristol, 1986-1987.

Pseudonymous autobiography of family doctor, in his 80s in 1990s, describing his own sexual experiences and deficiencies of medical education respecting sexual questions. 'The Enigma of Sex' Introduction. Chapter One: Childhood Behaviour Chapter Two: Courtship Chapter Three: Early Married Life Chapter Four: Middle Age and Beyond Chapter Five: Reflections and conclusions Chapter Six: Positive Suggestions Chapter Seven: Some Thoughts on the Art of Rearing a Family.

Manuscript by David Thomson, 'Photographic Researches on the Bacteriology of the Respiratory Tract in Health and also during Colds and Influenza', copiously illustrated with microphotographs, [c 1930s].

Papers of Robert James Stout, 1941-1998, comprising notes and record cards of cases anaesthetised during the Second World War, in Normandy 1944 and Burma 1945; records of anaesthesia accidents, 1941-1983; biographical and memoirs

SS PARTHIA Surgeon's Memorandum Book, 1945-1966: memoranda relating to duties of ship's surgeons and other medical personnel on Cunard liner SS PARTHIA.

Papers of John Cary Gilson, 1940s-1989, including correspondence, notes, papers, reports, lectures and articles, relating to the work of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit, 1952-1976; RAF Physiology Laboratory during the Second World War; asbestosis and pulmonary cancers.

Research papers of Diana Gittins, 1905-1998, for her book Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, (London: Routledge, 1998), including tapes and transcripts of interviews with staff, ex-patients and patients, and background information on the hospital.

Transcripts of 162 interviews with medical and nursing staff for a study on inter-professional relations between doctors and nurses (covering attitudes to patients, characteristics of good/bad staff, responsibility for medical decisions, training, etc.), 1989-1990.

Papers of Mary Ethel Corry Knocker,1912-1925, including unpublished typescript memoir entitled 'Through shadows and sunshine, 1914-1918', diaries, 1912-1921, and memorabilia, including photographs, 1912-1925, mainly relating to her nursing training and service as a nurse on the Western Front during the First World War.

Papers of Professor Leonard Goodwin, protozoologist, including student notes, examination papers and related material, while at University College Medical School, 1948-1950.

Blood transfusion certificates and reports issued by the British Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service, 1926-1939. Also some papers relating to South East London Mass X-Ray Service, 1960-1973.

Minutes and connected papers of dental professional bodies: Incorporated Dental Society Head Council, 1942-1957; British Dental Association Representative Board, 1944-1951; Joint Advisory Dental Council, 1946-1947; and papers relating to Appeals under Regulation 18 of the National Health Service (Service Committee and Tribunal) Regulations, 1948 and 1956, 1948-1964. The papers cover the period just before, during and immediately after the introduction of the National Health Service and deal very largely with its impact on the dental profession. They consist of the minutes and circulated papers of the three bodies representing the profession, with which R G Torrens was associated (the three later amalgamated), with a little connected correspondence, and papers concerning appeals under Regulation 18 of the National Health Service (Service Committee and Tribunal) Regulations in which R G Torrens was involved (dealing with the legitimacy or otherwise of fees charged for treatment).

Papers of John Guyett Scadding's including photocopies of reminiscences on development of thoracic surgery, 1970; lecture on the Institute of Diseases of the Chest, 1970; article on the history of the Thoracic Society, 1983; undated note 'Russell Brain's notes on his encounter with Winston Churchill'.

Comments and reports on the British Pharmaceutical Codex by F B Power and others, 1907.

Records of the Veterinary Research Club including minutes of meeting re proposed formation, 1924; minutes of Council meetings 1935-1973 and minutes of General Meetings 1935-1974.

William Keen collection, including correspondence, biographical material, notes, unpublished writings and photographs, including material on his opposition to the anti-vivisection movement, and the effects of lightning, c 1885-1929.

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.

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).

Registers of patients treated by Frederick Burkitt in private practice, 1923-1959.

Laboratory notebook, copybook of reports, patent applications relating to the development of compounds in the Bayer 205 series, [1914-1923].

Papers of Egon Kodicek, 1934-1984; comprising biographical and bibliographical items; laboratory notebooks of work at the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge, 1950s-1960s, and writings on nutrition research; some correspondence and photographs.

Papers of Sir Philip Manson-Bahr, 1959, including 'Whole original handwritten manuscript of 'The Story of Filaria''. This is the original text of 'The Story of Filaria bancrofti: A Critical review' published in Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1959, 62, pp53-61, 85-94, 106-117, 138-145, 160-173. This was divided up into five parts: I Early history; II Metamorphosis of W bancrofti, in the mosquito and filarial periodicity; III Advances in the 20th century; IV Mosquito intermediaries of W bancrofti; V Description of W bancrofti and pathology of filiariasis. Also watercolours illustrations of parasites, etc; photographs and charts re amoebiasis.

Documents on 'Minamata disease', 1958-1977.

Letters to Archibald Vivian Hill, 1911-1957, a few typed carbon copies of Hill's replies are included.

Papers of Baron Franz von Rigal relating to his illness and to his daughter, Marguerite, 1911-1920.

Papers of Ivy Keess including degree certificates, testimonials, photographs, [1909-1937].

Copies of correspondence from the Rockefeller Family Archives, pertaining to support given to the English Eugenics Society for their researches, 1934-1940, in particular the funding of Dr J R Baker's researches for the development of a cheap and safe spermicide.

Diary of Elston Grey-Turner's Royal Army Medical Corps service 1942-1945; BMA correspondence, 1948-1956, 1974; lectures and articles, 1949-1975.

The collection includes material on several research projects undertaken by McCance and Widdowson, 1929-1993, as well as a small amount of personalia. There are notebooks recording the first research on analysis of foodstuffs carried out in the UK, started by McCance when at the Diabetes Department of King's College Hospital, after R D Lawrence asked him to analyse cooked foods. Widdowson joined him in 1933 and together they devised the separate methods for estimating different carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch and dextrose). In 1940 their findings were published as Chemical composition of foods, the first of now regularly produced Standard Food Composition publications. There are notebooks and photographs of self-experimentation undertaken within the department, on salt-deficiency, conducted by McCance on himself, colleagues and medical students, involving not only a salt-free diet, but exposure to a hot air bath to sweat the salt out of the body, and also on absorption and excretion of iron. There is also his diary of the experimental study of rationing undertaken in 1939. There are 220 complete questionnaires from their survey of female colleagues and acquaintances for a study of physical and emotional periodicity in women, undertaken 1929-1930. There are experimental notebooks and files relating to research into body composition and development from 1944 onwards. This collection represents only a part of the diversity of research undertaken during the course of their long careers.

Patient records and practice and partnership agreements of Dr Lawrence Dulake, c 1926-1965.

Papers of Hugh Mervyn Emrys-Roberts, 1951-1972, comprising indexes and notes on 1951-1952 morbidity study of general practice patients including daily list of patients; patient index cards; summary cards; classification of diseases; incidence of certain conditions ; patients X-rayed; relative humidity throughout period 1951/1952; letters and article and paper by Hugh Emrys-Roberts entitled 'The Evaluation of Hospital Output - 1972', c 1972.

Draft partnership agreement, 1962, financial statements, 1962-1993 and notes on the history of the practice, 1996.

Patient record envelopes (male and female), 1920s-1980s, with brief notes of consultations, from practice in Wellington, Somerset. Prior to 1948 they include details of insurance society of patient.

Tapes and transcripts from Wellcome Trust funded project, 1980s, to derive information from individuals who entered general practice between c 1936 and c 1940 and c 1946 and c 1952, and some additional tapes relating to general practice.

66 Ear, Nose and Throat pathology illustrations, in pencil, ink and watercolour, by Dr John Stewart Mackintosh, c 1899-1900.

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Dr Stefan Cembrowicz with elderly general practitioners in the Bristol area, Dr Freddie Morgan, formerly Morgenbesser, Oct 2000, and Dr Ivor Ernest Doney, 2004.

Volume of practice accounts and a day-book of visits to patients of Marcus Maurice Scott. The practice accounts include some relating to a practice in Wandsworth, 1923-1924 (probably not Scott's, as he did not qualify until 1927), which moved to no 9 Newington Causeway in November 1924.

Papers of Dr Brian Gough, 1920s-1990s, comprising personal, professional and patient correspondence, including material about local institutions with which he was involved, and on his interests in medical history.

Papers of Henry William Thomas Ellis, 1832-1936, comprising certificates and tickets, chiefly relating to Ellis's training in Edinburgh.

Miscellaneous certificates and tickets, 1816-1862.

The collection comprises three bound volumes describing Markham's travels in South America in 1852-1853 (beginning his journey in Canada and ending it in Southampton), apparently prepared for publication in Markham's old age but not published in this form (the volumes include inserted material, some of it dating from before the journeys in question, and overall span the period 1845-1915); and a file of letters by Markham, spanning the period 1865-1913 (plus undated material).

Notes, diaries, certificates and cuttings by or about Eleazer Birch Roche or, in a few cases, other members of his family, 1782-1967.

Originals and photocopies of 58 papers and associated material, forming 'The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968' on mental health development, 1960-1968. Some papers include editorial notes.

Journal by Dr Forrest Leon Loveland, general practitioner, Topeka, Kansas, documenting a trip he made to Europe with his wife Helen, 29 Jul 1931-23 Dec 1931. The journal describes the pair's travels through England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and, in particular, Austria and Italy. The main focus of the trip was Vienna, Austria, where the Lovelands stayed from 29 Aug to 27 Nov 1931. Immediately on arrival Dr Loveland joined the American Medical Association of Vienna and began attending medical classes at Vienna University, including Dr Hermann Chiari's pathology class. Numerous photographs, postcards, tickets, newscuttings, maps, souvenirs etc. are pasted into the volume, and loose items were inserted between the pages up to 1949.

Correspondence between French naturalists and entomologists, 1816-1846.

Lecture notes, examination scripts and essays by Sir Colin Leonard Berry as a medical student, 1955-1959.

Manuscript translation into English, by an unknown hand, of Petrus Martyr Anglerius, Opus epistolarum ... Cui accesserunt epistolæ Ferdinandi de Pulgar, Latinæ pariter atque Hispanicæ (in Latinum idioma conuersæ a J. Magon), cum tractatu Hispanico de viris Castellæ illustribus, edited by C. Patin, (Elsevir, Amsterdam, 1670) 'The Work of the Letters of Peter Martyr of Angleria, a Milanese...to which are added the letters of Fernandez de Pulgar....'.