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Lectures on inflammation and pathology by Maurizio Bufalini, 1836-1853.

Papers of Patrick Alfred Buxton, 1908-1957, relate to his employment as Head of Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1927-1955, and notably include research notes, correspondence, maps, diaries and publications.

Notes of lectures by Giuseppe Canziani, on veterinary medicine, anatomy, physiology and phrenology, [1840-1845].

Notes from the lectures of Pietro Carboni, taken down by Francesco Petrucelli at Naples.

Sir Robert Carswell's anatomical drawings, with manuscript notes describing the cases illustrated, 1827-1838, and a catalogue, dated 1864.

Typescript of paper by Marjorie Caygill 'The British Medical Association and its Overseas Branches: A Short History' on the development of medical links within the Empire and Commonwealth, and variations between the UK pattern and its overseas offshoots. The paper covers the establishment of the BMA in the UK and in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India and the Colonies; the development of the medical education and General Medical Council recognition; and the establishment of the Commonwealth Medical Conference and the Commonwealth Medical Association. It is a working paper prepared in the 1970s as part of Terry Johnson's project on the Nature and Significance of Professional Links within the Commonwealth.

Students' notes of Mario Cecchini's lectures on tumours, at the Archiospedale del Santo Spirito, Rome.

Miscellaneous certificates and tickets, 1816-1862.

Papers of Herbert Davies Chalke, 1924-[1980] including lecture notes, papers and publications, including re alcoholism, TB, care of the elderly, and food safety. Also papers re service with RAMC in North Africa.

Papers of Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, 1931-1938, relate to his time as Chairman of the Court of Governors and member of the Board of Management of the School of Tropical Medicine, and the aftermath of his death. Correspondence regards Chamberlain's role on the Court of Governors and Board of Management; information on donations and subscriptions; correspondence with his family after his death and on the commissioning of a portrait of him after his death; a note on his relationship with the School and letters to the Chairman of the Chadwick Trust.

Papers of Thomas Hancock Arnold Chaplin, 1915-1920, consisting of his papers on medical history, specifically on the rate of mortality in the British Army in 1815, 1915; an analysis of the Roll of the Royal College of Physicians by William Munk (Munk's Roll), 1918; and a history of medical education in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1500-1850, 1920.

Records of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 1823-1997, later Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, comprising minutes of the Committee of Management, 1823-1950; School Council, 1950-1997; Academic Board, 1949-1997; Finance Committee, 1911-1923; Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1948-1993; Joint Liason Committee, 1967-1968; Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1945-1965; Division of Medicine, 1945-1965; Division of Surgery, 1945-1965; Institute of Pathology, 1919-1959; Academic Sub-Committee, 1943-1960; Joint School and Hospital Subcommittee, 1900-1907; Dean's and annual reports, 1927-1996; Dean's register, 1882-1934; Dean's disciplinary book, 1900-1914; prospectuses, 1904-1998; Charing Cross Hospital Gazette, 1899-1973, 1981-1984; honours list, 1879; bylaws, rules and regulations, 1894; 1930; constitution of the Students' Union, 1977; dental students' register, [1935-1954];
annual accounts for Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 1950-1984; Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, 1984-1997; Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School Students' Union, 1992-1997.

The archive of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy provides a comprehensive record of its activities and development, dating back to its foundation - with two press cuttings books of the 1894 'massage scandals' (P.1), and Council minutes from 1894 onwards (B.1). The core of the collection is formed by complete runs of minute books for the various committees. There are no committee working papers or correspondence files other than those bound with the minutes. Papers relating to education and examination including minutes for all the major committees and sub-committees (C.1), and material relating to the actual administration of examinations: syllabuses, examination papers, result books and reports (C.2). Records relating to membership including membership registers 1895-1975, published lists of members 1920-1986 and minutes and registers of the fund and prize committees 1949-1957 (D). Records of some branches and special interest groups within the CSP can be found in section J.

Material relating to protecting and improving the status of its members within the medical profession can be found in section F, especially in connection with the debates on the place of physiotherapy within the NHS - training, conditions of service and its existence as a profession distinct from others such as occupational therapy. These topics are also discussed in publications (N). Other publications illustrate specific physiotherapy and lifting techniques and advertise physiotherapy as a career. Section P contains 'historical' material relating to the early years of the Society: the 'massage scandal' press cuttings, and correspondence re the Harley Institute massage school 1912-1914. Section P also contains material relating to the writing of the Society's commissioned histories, and personal papers and reminiscences, including a group of papers and photographs relating to Olive Guthrie-Smith and the Swedish Institute, (later St Mary's Hospital School of Physiotherapy), 1904-1939. There is a substantial photograph collection (Q.1), dating from 1900-1980, illustrating many aspects of the Society's work as well as specific treatments and hospital departments. There are also nine films (Q.5), 1942-1976, illustrating techniques, training and events; sound recordings (Q.3); and a series of tapes of oral history interviews recorded in 1992 (Q.4).

Papers of Sidney Chave including 'War Diary' from service in Emergency Public Health Services, 1939-1942; diaries of the Harlow New Town Survey, 1958-1965; lecture notes and teaching files; publications, research and reference files on public health and its history; correspondence.

A thick file of unpaginated duplicated material entitled 'Child Health and Environment: Bethnal Green', 1960s, apparently course material distributed in connection with a course in, presumably, child health, at St Bartholomew's Hospital (University House). The material is undated but from references within the text and given in the bibliography would appear to have been compiled in the late 1960s. The approach taken in the course would seem to emphasise the environmental aspect of child health and to take a social medicine perspective. Notes circulated in connection with a course on the above given at St Bartholomew's Hospital during the late 1960s.

Notes from Pierre Chirac's lectures, 1696-1734.

Notes from lectures of Nicolaus Cirillus, 1699-1735.

Records of the City of London Maternity Hospital, including Governors and Management Committee minutes, 1750-1948; Court of Governors minutes, 1883-1948; Finance Committee minutes, 1905-1948; lists of governors and annual reports, 1764-1948; reports concerning Brockett Hall Emergency Maternity Hospital, 1939-1940; new hospital charter and related papers, 1918-1935; Acts of Parliament concerning the hospital, 1773-1869; architects plans for alterations and modernisation, 1937; admissions registers, 1750-1948; registers of baptisms, 1813-1978; Matrons' case books, 1921-1949; out-patients admission registers, 1872-1953; district case books, 1913-1942; prospectus for the midwifery training school, 196-; salaries and wages books, 1912-1940; register of wills and legacies, 1754-1965; playbill for Sir Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for the benefit of the Hospital, 17 Dec 1776; programme of concert at Mansion House arranged by the Ladies' Association in aid of the City of London Lying-in Hospital on 23 June 1914; includes photographs of exterior of hospital, interior of ward and chapel; issues of Onward, journal of the City of London Maternity Hospital, 1924-1944; history of the hospital, 1922 and guide for expectant mothers, [1950s].

Notes of lectures on chemistry taken by Aimé Marie Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre when a student, plus three short pieces on chemistry, 1800-1801.

'Reminiscences of the Hospital at the Corner', St George's, Hyde Park, by Pamela Mary Clewett as a probationer nurse, 1939-1945. This is an autobiographical account of what it was like training as a nurse at St George's and elsewhere during the war years.

Papers of Henry Cline, 1777-[1824], comprising three notebooks, 1777-[1824], labelled 'pathology and surgery', 'anatomy and physiology', and ' effects of the mind on diseases' containing notes on pathological conditions and contemporary surgical practice, with individual case histories, details of patients inoculated by Cline, 1778-1789, his post-mortem examination of Charles James Fox, account of influenza, 1782; notes on a course of lectures on anatomy, physiology and surgery, [1790]; notes on lectures on surgery, [1818], delivered 1805-1806.

Anatomy by Henry Cline and Mr. Astley Cooper, Surgeons, 1804, St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, London, and by Henry Cline, Junior. (Vol. I.) The second volume contains notes of lectures, extracts, receipts, and some case-records at Guy's Hospital, by the same hand. Illustrated by a few rough pen-drawn anatomical figures, etc. The first volume is lettered on the spine: 'Anatomical Notes', and 'End of the first volume' is written on the last leaf of text. The second volume is lettered 'Notes.', and appears to be a continuation of another volume now missing. Some of the notes in this second volume are dated January and February 1805. Produced in London.

Notes on surgical lectures [given in London] by Henry Cline, and taken by an unnamed student. The text, neatly written in a uniform hand, is possibly a fair copy of notes taken at an earlier date. Dated watermarks are partially visible on the outer margin of leaves (e.g. MS. 6009, f. 98, where the date 1821 seems discernible).

Papers of Henry Gore Clough, 1779-1792, comprising a volume titled Lectures Anatomical and Chirurgical by William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. 1779. Volume 1st, containing manuscript notes by Clough of lectures by Hunter, including a copy of a portrait of Hunter by J Thornwaite; a volume titled Lectures Anatomical and Chirurgical by William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. 1779. Volume 2nd, containing manuscript notes by Clough of lectures by Hunter, covering topics such as embalming, c 1779. Including patient case notes, 1779-1792, and a letter from Mr Wyatt to Clough, 14 Apr 1792, regarding publishing a case; and a volume titled Lectures Anatomical and Chirurgical by William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. 1779. Volume 3rd and sub-titled Lectures on the Gravid Uterus by William Hunter, MD and FRS, 1779, containing manuscript notes by Clough of lectures by Hunter.

Material relating to the use of nitrus oxide, chloroform and ether, mostly notes, including some on an operation carried out on Napolean III, and notes for lectures given by Clover. There is some personal material relating to Clover's education, including some family correspondence.

Medical student's notebook, [1563-1574].

Correspondence between the Ministry of Health and the RCOG concerning the Ministry of Health and Scottish Home and Health Department working party on ambulance training and equipment; a copy of the report; drafts of the RCOG's comments on the report, 1966-1967.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Continuing Medical Education Committee, 1992-1998, comprising minutes, agendas and circulated papers.

Correspondence relating to various aspects of the work of the Working party on continuing medical education, papers agenda and minutes and the final report, 1988-1992.

Recollections of Diana Cooke's nursing career during and shortly after the Second World War, with photographs. Introduction by M A L Cooke. Ts, spiral bound, 2002.

Papers of William Cooke, 1790-1815, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by Cooke, of lectures by John Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, including anatomy, physiology, and bone diseases, 1806; a volume of manuscript notes by Cooke, of anatomical lectures by John Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, including notes on Dr Powell's and Dr Robert's Lectures on Medicine, 1806; a volume of manuscript notes by Cooke, of lectures by John Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, titled Extracts from Mr Abernethy's Lectures on Surgery 1806, including additions dated 1815, and a section titled Extracts from Cooper on Hernia relating to Sir Astley Cooper, 1806-1815; a volume of manuscript notes by Cooke, of surgical lectures by Henry Cline, including notes on bandages, and Goulard's Preparations of Lead, 1800; 2 volumes of manuscript notes by an unidentified hand, of lectures delivered by Osborn and Clark, titled Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery and the diseases of Women and Children by Drs Osborn and Clark 1790-1791, including manuscript notes probably taken by Cooke, of lectures by Andrew Thynne, dated Oct 1805.

A course of lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, delivered by Astley Paston Cooper and Benjamin Travers at the Theatre of St. Thomas's Hospital, during the years 1818-1819. Produced in London.

Notes, 1957-1966, made by Sir Zachary Cope in preparation for a History of Dispensaries in Great Britain, plus a piece on his own writings. Produced in London.

Papers of Phil[lip] Cornish, 1773, comprising a manuscript volume titled Lectures on Surgery, taken verbatim as Mr Else (one of the surgeons of St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals) delivered them, by Phil. Cornish. Surgeon containing notes on surgical lectures. Including notes titled Lectures on Dislocations by Mr Frank, surgeon to Guy's Hospital.

Papers of William Birmingham Costello, 1779-1849, comprising information mostly relating to his publication The cyclopedia of practical surgery, including an etymological and critical terminology; detailed descriptions of instruments and apparatus; a copius bibliography; and an historical view of the progress of the science to the present day: ... a complete digest, alphabetically distributed, of the doctrines and practice of surgery/ conducted by William B Costello; assisted by numerous distinguished writers; illustrated with numerous engravings and wood-cuts. Volume 1: ABD-DYS (Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper: London, 1841) containing correspondence, 1829-1849; drafts, proofs and publication details, 1837-1841; and personal notes and papers, 1779-1844.

Papers of William Cribb comprising his notes on lectures by Joseph Else on diseases of the bones, [1779].

Papers relating to William Cumberland Cruikshank, 1785-1804, comprising 9 volumes of manuscript lecture notes by Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, titled Anatomical lectures by Mr Cruikshank. Course 1st, vol. 1st, October 1785.; Anatomical lectures by Mr Cruikshank & Mr Baillie. Course 1st, vol. 2nd, 1785.; Lectures on anatomy by Mr Cruikshank. Course 1st, vol. 3rd, 1786.; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank and Mr Baillie, course 2nd, vol. 1st, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank and Mr Baillie, course 2nd, vol. 2nd, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 3rd, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 4th, 1786; Lectures on anatomy, by W. Cruikshank, course 2nd, vol. 5th, 1786; and Lectures by Mr Cruikshank, containing physiology notes; a volume of manuscript notes on anatomy by William Clift, titled Mr Cruikshank and Dr Baillie 1798.; and a manuscript volume containing notes on muscles, notes on Cruickshank's lectures, remarks by J Thompson, and a report from the Board of Curators concerning the skeleton of a mammoth, 1793-1804.

Papers of William Cullen, comprising notes of his lectures, taken by an unidentified student, 1771, entitled 'Methodus medendi febrium', including lectures on arthritis and gout, malaria and measles.

Transcript of William Cullen's lectures on the practice of medicine taken by E. Dowsett, Edinburgh, 23 May 1770.

Papers of Morris Myer Datnow, 1929-1946, mainly comprising copies of papers produced by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) for circulation to Fellows and Members, 1935-1946, and including letter from William Blair-Bell inviting Datnow to join the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (BCOG), 1929; by-laws and regulations for the admission of Fellows and Members, 1929-1935; prospectus and regulations for the Diploma, 1933; BCOG memorandum regarding a standard rate of puerperal morbidity, 1937; BCOG memorandum setting forth certain principles which in the opinion of the College should be incorporated in a National Maternity Service, 1936; RCOG Inter-departmental Committee of the Ministry of Health on Medical Schools, 1943; BCOG list of donations to the endowment fund and the decorations and furnishing fund, 1934; notice of ordinary general meeting and annual report of Council for 1945, 1946;draft reply of the Liverpool Reference Committee to the College's request for information on the role of consultants in local maternity services and ante-natal clinics, 1937.

Papers of George William Davies comprising his notes on lectures on surgery delivered Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1808.

Synopses and lecture notes used at the London Hospital Medical College, c 1945.

Papers relating to Thomas Denman, comprising notes on his lectures on midwifery, 1782, taken by an unidentified student.

Notes of lectures, written by Gabriel Daubry: Commentarii in Aristotelis Physicam, Philosophiam Moralem, Oeconomicam et Politicam. The 'Physica' is illustrated by pen-drawn diagrams and figures. Text within red rules. Vol. I. Compendium philosophiae moralis (26 pp.), Commentarii in decem libris Aristotelis ad Nicomachum (752 pp.), Commentarii in Aristotelis Oeconomica et Politica (149 pp.). This volume is dated 1654. Vol. II. Compendium Physicae (23 pp.). Commentarii in Physicam (1251 pp.). Included in this are commentaries on 'De coelo et mundo' (pp. 530-600), on 'De elementis (pp. 601-658), on 'De ortu et interitu (pp. 659-757), on 'De meteoris' (pp. 758-924), on 'De anima' (pp. 926-1170), on 'De somno et vigilia' (pp. 1171-1188), 'De anima' [cont.] (pp. 1190-1251). At the end is a 'Tractatus de mundi sphaera (150 pp.) by Desperiers.

Papers of Grantly Dick-Read, c 1906-1971 including family correspondence and papers, letters from mothers and doctors, papers relating to dissemination of doctrine, personal material.

Papers of Walter Dickson, 1841, comprising an Inaugural dissertation by Walter Dickson titled On the Pathology of Dropsey, which was submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, 24 Mar 1841.

The series at present comprises only the final report of the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (DRCOG) working party, 1993.

Notes by John Dixon on medical matters and on things of personal interest to him such as astrology and photography spanning his entire career, 1848-1903. MS.5191 comprises more formal material, namely certificates and indentures.

Personalia and memorabilia of Walter Ernest Dixon and G Norman Myers, 1865-1949; files relating to their pharmacological research (digitalis, morphine substitutes, coramine, etc) and teaching and glass lantern slides, some of Dixon and colleagues, mostly relating to research.

Papers of Dr David Dobbie, 1943, comprising notes on tropical medicine, made in Army Field Message Book, 1943. Divided into sections on Malaria; Amoebiasis; Relapsing Fever; Leishmaniasis; Typhoid; Vitamin B deficiency; Ancylostomiasis; Schistosmiasis; Infective hepatitis; Smallpox; Typhus; Virus diseases (CNS); Effort syndrome; Plague; Deficiency malnutrition and Differential diagnosis of certain fevers. Possibly compiled while taking a course on the subject.