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Papers of William Clift, 1794-1808, comprising 2 volumes of manuscript notes taken at lectures on practical surgery by Sir Everard Home, delivered at 13 Castle Street, Leicester Square, 1794-1796. The notes were corrected by Clift in 1808.

Papers of Thomas James Poole, 1825, comprising an indenture of the apprenticeship of Poole as a surgeon, apothecary and accouchier to Anthony Huxtable and Henry Clark, 1825.

Papers of Hugh Owen Thomas, c 1857-1875, comprising a casebook, 1857-[1867]; a notebook containing drawings, 1875; correspondence with his wife, Elizabeth Thomas; and a volume of papers.

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 George James Guthrie, 1841-1856, comprising a letter from Guthrie to William Clift, 15 Jun 1841, requesting a skeleton hung up in the theatre. Clift has noted at the end of the letter "This note came a week after the date"; and an obituary for Guthrie, from the Illustrated London News, 10 May 1856.

Papers of Lord Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1893-1936, comprising 45 volumes of case books, 1893-1936; 22 volumes relating to private operations, 1908-1935; 7 volumes relating to private operations in London, 1927-1935; 1 notebook relating to London patients, 1920-1922; 2 volumes relating to records of pathological researches, 1921-1923; press cuttings relating to euthanasia, 1924-1936; 2 albums of tributes to Moynihan, 1936; press cuttings relating to Moynihan, 1908-1930; scrap book relating to Moynihan, c1913-1934; miscellaneous material including photographs of Moynihan, letters, lecture notes, testimonials and articles, c1913-1934; album of newspaper cuttings relating to Moynihan, Sep 1934- Aug 1936; album of newspaper cuttings relating to Moynihan, Sep 1930- Jul 1934; and 47 diplomas awarded to Moynihan, 1886-1935.

Papers of Lord Russell Claude Brock, 1926-1977, comprising 5 volumes of surgical notebooks, 1926-1976; an undated manuscript of a book on Astley Cooper; correspondence relating to the annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; material for a British Medical Journal article on the importance of environmental controls in the operating room and the intensive care unit, c 1975; a file of charts and readings relating to clinical temperature observations: material for a British Medical Journal article titled 'Observations on central and peripheral temperatures etc relating to shock', c 1969; and material for a Journal of Physiology article on the thermal sensors of the heart, 1977.

Papers of Thomas Moore, early 19th century, comprising a volume of manuscript notes taken at the anatomical, physiological, and surgical lectures of, presumably, Alexander Monro secundus, at the University of Edinburgh, covering topics such as sutures, lithotomy, paracentesis and hare lip; and a volume of manuscript notes titled An account of the operations of surgery taken from the lectures of Alexander Monro, professor of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh and FRS, covering topics such as gastroraphia, lithotomy, and couching cataracts.

The correspondence, papers and scientific notebooks of Sir George Lindor Brown. The majority of notebooks relate to the investigations of Brown and his co-workers (notably Feldberg, Harvey and Maycock) at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead, into neuromuscular transmission. The correspondence and remaining papers cover Brown's administrative work in the decades from the 1950's. His relationships with the Royal Society and the Medical Research Council are well represented. The papers include personal files, correspondence with institutions and individuals, working scientific notes and sets of slides.

Extensive papers of Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, relating to almost every aspect of his career in science and public life. The scientific materials include a complete run of laboratory notebooks, 1924-1968, files on the work for which Florey is best known, penicillin and antibiotics, 1940-1962, together with papers, research notes and photographs on mucus secretion, traumatic shock and electron microscopy. Florey's writings are preserved in the form of drafts and proofs of published items, together with relevant correspondence. His correspondence indicates the depth of his involvement in the affairs of particular organisations, notably the Oxford University School of Pathology and the Royal Society. The work of Ethel Florey (née Hayter) and Margaret Augusta Florey (née Fremantle) is also present.

Letters, papers and original drawings including the manuscripts of Marcello Malpighi's works published by the Royal Society.

Papers, c1917-1948, of William Sheldon Ridge, comprising photographs, manuscripts of books containing material used for his lectures on Chinese international relations, and miscellaneous papers. Includes papers relating to his wife Frances.

Papers, 1928-1991, of Dr Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole, including private correspondence; papers relating to his professional career in Newcastle and Nottingham, including letters from his patients; papers relating to his work with the Colonial Office; papers relating to his work in Nigeria and Sierra Leone; scholarly work, including manuscripts, articles and speeches; and financial papers.

Typescript memoir by Charlotte F Tippet, 'Diversities of Operations', 1938, written at Chefoo, including her childhood and religious development and beliefs, nursing career, and missionary work and life in China (1902-1938), including medical, educational and evangelistic work.

Papers of William Roberts, c 1843-1847, comprising a volume titled Rough Journal containing case notes on patients attended whilst in the Royal Marines during the landing at Montevideo, Uruguay, from 1843-1845; and as Acting Surgeon on the HMS FROLIC, stationed in the Pacific, from 1845-1847.

Copies of letter to Hargreaves from Maj Gen Bernard Montgomery, thanking him for medical care he received in the British Military Hospital, Haifa in May-Jun 1939, written on 16 July 1939, with covering letter from Hargreaves to the Centre, 1988.

Photograph album presented to Haughton by RN Hospital Haslar to commemorate the visit of HRH Prince Charles to the hospital, 28 Jun 1982, including photographs of troops wounded in the Falklands War, 1982.

Summary of his military career, 1890-1932, [1932], his daughter's birth certificate, 1905, and a list of medals, papers and other items relating to Hudson received by the National Army Museum, 1980. 'Correspondence regarding the removal of the grave of Capt Granville Gower Loch CB, RN from the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma', 1924-1929, a pamphlet published at the request of MajGordon Loch in 1929.

Papers relating to his service in the Middle East, principally comprising account of his work at No 62 General Hospital, Tobruk, Libya, Oct 1941-Feb 1942; cutting of newspaper article based on this account, written by Patrick Marnham (his son) in 1991; text of his lecture on surgery in the Middle East, 1940-1943, [1943]; photocopy of his printed article 'The Tobruk Plaster', 1945;diary of Col H V Leigh, Commander, No 62 General Hospital, Oct 1941-Jan 1942; Leigh's official report on No 62 General Hospital for the period Oct-Dec 1941, written in Jan 1942.

Diary, 17 Sep-16 Oct 1944, covering his service at Battle of Arnhem (Operation MARKET GARDEN), with part of 'Suggested medical plan' prepared for Deputy Director of Medical Services, 1 Airborne Corps, 22 Sep 1944, and part of note relating to the strength of medical forces, [1944]. Transcript of part of above diary made by Sir Basil Liddell Hart, with related correspondence, 1949-1951. Bound transcript of above diary made by Lt Col Kenneth Garside, Honorary Keeper of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, with foreword by Warrack, 1979. The diary formed the basis of Warrack's book Travel by dark: after Arnhem (Harvill, London, 1963), and a BBC television production Arnhem: the story of an escape, originally broadcast in 1976. Typescript copy of 'The Airborne Hospital, Willem 111 Kazerne, Apeldoorn, 25th Sept 1944 to 26th Oct 1944. Nominal roll of the wounded' compiled by Peter H Starling, Curator of the Army Medical Services Museums, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1998.

Papers relating to his service in Italy, 1943-1944, principally comprising 1 Div, 3 Infantry Bde and 3 Field Ambulance operation orders concerning the landings on Pantelleria (Operation CORKSCREW), May-Jun 1943, and at Anzio (Operation SHINGLE), Jan 1944; report on the action at Campoleone, 30 Jan-4 Feb 1944, written by J G James, Commander, 3 Infantry Bde, 12 Feb 1944; 3 Infantry Bde intelligence summary for Operations ANT and APHIS; three aerial photographs of Anzio beaches, 1943, and plan of Blue Beach (North), Anzio, 1944; two parts of 'The First Division in action' covering the Anzio campaign, Jan-Jun 1944, written in Apr and Jul 1944.

Papers of William Sampson Handley including student notebook Guy's Hospital, 1894, with notes on surgical techniques and diagnosis,and notes on cases seen at the Middlesex and Samaritan Hospitals, 1902-1912, with correspondence inserted.

Papers of Bernard Lewis Williams, 1942-1945, including case book containing patient records, with enclosed memorabilia; the case-book is described by Mr Williams as `my private record of cases of special interest concerning which I requested follow-up information', but was continued for another two months after his departure from the unit.

Follow-up cards for most of the cases were attached to the relevant pages of the volume. For conservation reasons, these and the other enclosures have been removed to separate folders (GC/172/2-3).

Mr Williams also allowed copies to be made of text and photographs from a scrapbook which he had put together of his service with No 6 Field Surgical Unit (FSU), and of loose photographs, including transparencies.

Copy of account of his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Sudan, 1924-1931, written for [The Sudan Society].

As at Jan 2009, The Women's Library held approximately 562 badges in the Museum Collection, with c 200 additional badges identified in the archives.

The earliest badges held in The Women's Library were produced by women's suffrage campaigns, organisations represented include: the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, the Women's Social and Political Union, Women's Freedom League, and faith-based organisations such as the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society and the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage.

In addition, the collection contains women's liberation movement and contemporary badges dating from the 1970s to the present day. It includes a selection of badges produced by women's anti-nuclear and peace organisations, campaigns against male violence, pro-choice (abortion) organisations and lesbian support and campaigning groups.

A small number of modern women's campaigning jewellery items, such as earrings and pendants that are currently stored in this collection.

As at Jan 2009, The Women's Library held approximately 1050 posters in the Museum Collection, with c 100 posters identified in the archives.

The earliest posters held result from suffrage activities and can be divided into three main groups; advertisements for meetings and events, illustrated propaganda posters arguing why women should get the vote, and thirdly newspaper bills bearing suffrage related headlines, used to promote paper sales.

All other posters are arranged by subject and date from the 1970s to the present day. The collection represents a mixture of women's campaigning, campaigning by organisations to promote gender equality, and posters produced to advertise women-focused events and publications. There are a small number of posters that portray women's issues and campaign work internationally. The work of The Equal Opportunities Commission in England and Ireland is particularly well represented as a result of a large donation of their obsolete posters during the 1990s. Also well represented with almost 80 posters is the work of See Red Women's Workshop, a women's liberation screen-printing collective (1974-1984).

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).

Notes of lectures on anatomy and surgery by William Hunter and William Cruikshank, taken by a student. The notes cover a course of 79 lectures given at Hunter's Great Windmill Street School, London, at some time after he had been joined by Cruikshank as assistant in 1771 (cf. MS. 5595). The latter's contribution to the course seems from these notes to have been considerable, suggesting that he was already well-established as co-lecturer. The student was probably John Power (fl. 1791-98), later a surgeon at Market Bosworth, Leics.

Papers of Joshua Henry Porter including manuscript draft and published version of The Surgeon's Pocket-book, 2nd edition, 1880 and military scrapbook, 1850-1881.

Although Barlow is best known for his original researches on infantile scurvy, there is very little material relating to that subject in the collection. There are manuscript drafts of his address to the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and his Bradshaw Lecture on infantile scurvy (BAR/E1-2), but the bulk of the clinical and scientific component of the papers relates to other matters, particularly Raynaud's disease and erythromelalgia, diseases to which Barlow turned his attention later in his career.

Among Barlow's clinical papers is a notebook recording minutes of a 'Clinical Club', 1875-77 (BAR/D.2), whose members included, apart from Barlow himself, Sidney Coupland, Rickman Godlee, William Smith Greenfield, Robert Parker, and William Allen Sturge.

Most of Barlow's private patients' records have not survived, though there is an index to his private patients' books, covering the years 1876-1918 (BAR/F.1).

Scientific and clinical matters are also discussed in Barlow's correspondence, but again this is relatively thin for the period when he was active in research. Barlow's non-family correspondence has clearly been heavily weeded: there are few letters from patients, with the exception of some prominent individuals, such as Mary Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon, Randall Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Salisbury and Lord Selborne, and in general it seems that while letters from important or well-known figures have survived those from individuals deemed less important have been discarded. Significant numbers of letters remain however from several of Barlow's regular correspondents, such as the poet, Robert Bridges, Lord Bryce, and William Page Roberts, dean of Salisbury, as well as medical figures like Sir William Jenner and Sir James Reid.

Barlow's personal papers and family correspondence have survived in bulk and form a rich source of material for both his private and family life, and his public career. There are travel journals and sketchbooks from his earlier years, mainly documenting visits to the Continent, 1869-83; correspondence with his parents, brother, wife and children, 1852-1940, including letters written by Barlow from Balmoral, where he served as royal physician intermittently between 1897 and 1899, an eye-witness account of the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 (BAR/B.2/4), and letters and telegrams from court in 1902 during the crisis of Edward VII's appendectomy; and commonplace and scrapbooks compiled in retirement, 1920-37. Also from this period are various temperance notes and addresses.

The archive also comprises letters and papers of Barlow's parents, 1842-87; of Barlow's wife, Ada, including letters from her brother and sisters in India, 1858-80, and to her daughter Helen studying in Darmstadt, Germany, 1905-6; of Barlow's sons, Alan, Thomas and Basil, including letters from the last-named while serving on the Western Front, 1916-17; and notably of his daughter Helen, including correspondence with Archbishop and Mrs (later Lady) Davidson, 1910-35, and letters from Sir John Rose Bradford and his wife while serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, 1914-19. Helen Barlow's papers also include records of three charities with which she was associated: the University College Hospital Ladies Association, 1900-50, the Southwark Boys Aid Association, 1914-36, and the Quinn Square [Southwark] Social Centre Society, c. 1935-1951. Finally there is a handful of letters to Andrew Barlow, Sir Thomas's grandson, mainly relating to articles he wrote about his grandfather, 1955-81.

The collection covers Lord Moran's life and career. It includes papers (committee minutes, correspondence, notes, printed material, ephemera, articles, parliamentary papers, etc.) re his position as Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1920-1945; as President at the Royal College of Physicians, 1941-1950; his role in negotiations over the establishment and structure of the NHS, 1942-1960; as Chairman of the Awards Committee, 1948-1962. His other professional activities are covered in general correspondence files; a series of medical records, including material on Winston Churchill, 1944-1965; subject files relating to his role on various government, educational and medical bodies, including the commission to determine whether Rudolph Hess was mentally fit to stand trial in 1945. The collection includes drafts and papers re Anatomy of Courage (including photocopies of his World War I army notebooks), and Winston Churchill: Struggle for Survival. There is also a section of unpublished writings and speeches, 1921-1970. Papers consulted by Professor Lovell in Australia while writing his biography of Lord Moran, were returned in two batches, the first in April 1990, when he helped with the initial sorting and listing of the papers, and the second in April 1991. Some of these papers have been returned to the main body of the collection, however most have been kept in a separate section in the list (section L). The collection also contains personal and family material, photographs, press cuttings and ephemera, and a section comprising personal and professional papers of Lord Moran's wife Dorothy, Lady Moran (d.1983).

Papers of Ann Gwendolen Dally and Peter John Dally, 1953-1991 including patient and other records of their joint private practice, plus Dr Ann Dally's correspondence with General Medical Council and writings relating to drug addiction.

Papers of George Grey Turner including correspondence; biographical material; photographs; lecture notes; cuttings; reprints, 1935-1951.

Records of the Cancer Research Campaign formerly the British Empire Cancer Campaign, covering all aspects of the Campaign's organization and activities. Sections A-C comprise committee minutes, agenda and papers, 1923-1976. The minutes of central headquarters committees are extensive, but there are serious gaps in the top level committees: Grand Council, the Executive Committee and the Scientific Advisory Committee. Efforts to locate the missing records have so far been unsuccessful. In addition, many minutes of sub-committees are either incomplete or unsigned copies. The collection contains very few records of regional branches; and information regarding either their existence or whereabouts is scant. The main body of the archive, Sections D-R, consists largely of files generated by Campaign headquarters, mainly the General Secretary's office. Files contain correspondence, reports, pamphlets, legal documents, press cuttings, articles, off-prints, posters, ephemera, etc. They cover the Campaign's history and organisation; senior members; relations with regional councils, branches, affiliatated bodies and other cancer organisations, both in the UK and overseas; cancer research and government provision; fund raising; research materials and equipment; cancer cures and causes; views and enquiries from the general public; cancer education and publications. There is also a series of press cuttings volumes, and three publicity films made in the 1950s.

Minute books, 1926-1927, and Annual reports, 1926-1938, of the Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, and volumes of press-cuttings about the Centre 1929-1961; files, publications and ephemera relating to the activities of the Centre, 1925-1952; files of the Pioneer Health Centre Ltd following the closure of the Centre, 1950-1999; books about the Centre; photographs, films and videos; papers of George Scott Williamson, 1910-1991, including personalia, correspondence, lectures, drafts of articles and books, notes; papers of Innes Hope Pearse, including personalia, correspondence, notes, manuscripts, drafts of The Quality of Life, reprints; materials relating to Scott Williamson and Pearse's research on pathology and the thyroid, including notes, lectures, manuscripts, correspondence, and reprints.

The collection comprises material on medical history and notes on scatological remedies used in Mexico, and biographical notes on Dr. Miguel Francisco Jiménez (1813-1876).

The papers in this collection comprise official documentation issued by the authorities in New Spain (specifically, in Mexico). They include the appointment of José Gracida y Bernal (1760?-1815) as one of the Protomedicatos who were in charge of medical matters in New Spain (WMS/Amer.96); three certificates issued by Protomedicatos giving individuals licence to practice medicine (WMS/Amer.51, 64 and 97); a copy of a notice suspending quarantine procedures in the city of Mexico during the fever epidemic of 1813 (WMS/Amer.3); and a order authorising payment to F.X. de Balmis (1753-1819) for work on indigenous plants in the treatment of syphilis (WMS/Amer.62).

Records of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) and its predecessors comprising:

minutes of the British Institute of Radiology meetings 1922-1943; Council, 1943-1952; Council and General meetings, 1951-1993; Special General meetings 1934-1960; Medical Committee 1928-1983 ; Museums and Library Committee 1928-1930; Library Committee 1954-1970; Organisation Committee, 1962-1963 ; Physics Committee, 1966-1974; Stanley Melville Memorial Award Committee, 1934-1935; Editorial Committee, 1924-1959; House, Finance and Staff Committee, 1938; Finance Committee, 1939-1944, 1981-1983; Finance and General Purposes Committee 1952-1962; Officers committee, 1977-1994; General Programme Committee, 1959-1992; Developments Committee, 1966; Nuclear Medicine Committee, 1968-1982; Industry Committee, 1928-1981; Radiation Physics Committee 1968-1983; Radiation Protection Committee, 1921-1985; Scientific Committee, 1968-1982; Radiation Hazard Committee papers 1961-1962;

BIR election register, with death dates annotated, 1929-1939; BIR list of members, 1926; Lists of members, 1954-1989; printed copies of BIR Yearbook and list of members, 1930-1950; printed copies of Handbook of the BIR, 1953-1966; proof copy of Handbook of the BIR, 1978 (1 file); BIR Handbook and list of members, 1991;

visitors books, 1958-1998;

papers relating to the Institute's relocation to premises at 36 Portland Place, London, including, papers relating to the appeal for funds, Lord Penny's broadcast, donors and covenants, tender documents, removal plans, architect plans, opening by the Queen, 1977-1984; letters relating to the purchase of the lease for the Welbeck St premises 1922-1924; papers relating to the Special General Meeting, 1953-1954;

BIR memorandum of objects, officers and council, 1925; articles of association, of the BIR incorporated with the Röntgen Society, 1929; royal charter, 1958; BIR Byelaws, 1959; memorandum and articles of the Society of Radiographers, 1920;

papers relating to arrangements and programme BIR Annual Congress 1954-2001; files relating to the International Congress, London 1950, Copenhagen, 1953, Munich, 1969; correspondence relating to the Royal Charter, 1959; papers relating to centenary of X-ray, 1990-1996; papers relating to amalgamation with other radiological and medical associations, 1950-1951;

papers relating to the Royal College of Radiologists' George Simon lecture, 1970s;papers relating to Sugden and Poole's experiments on oxygen tension (undated); offprints and articles by various authors, 1917-1970s;

photocopies of indexes to volumes of Patent Specifications particular to Radiology (original volumes are no longer held by the BIR), 1925-[1975]; files relating to Symposia and meetings papers; Symposium Ossium cash books, 1967-1968;

collection of BIR advertisements from the British Journal of Radiology, 1920-1994;

financial records of the BIR including Register of Seals, 1929-1978; Charities Act 1960 income tax exemptions; List of securities 1926; Detailed balance sheets, 1922-1960 (incomplete); papers relating to BIR voluntary liquidation, 1960; and Stocks and shares - award funds, [1920s];

radiology related material held by the BIR including miscellaneous financial ledger, 1904-1915; Trade catalogues for radiology equipment from various companies, [1930s-1960s]; Vinyl disc recordings (78 RPM) of a lecture given by Lord Rutherford at Goettingen on 14 Dec 1931 (8 discs); Index to transparencies illustration normal subject technique 'Radiology - a routine normal subject technique';

minutes and papers of the Radiology History Committee (now the Radiology History and Heritage Charitable Trust), 1990-1995; minutes, correspondence, and papers of the British Radiation Protection Association, 1984-1991; minutes of the International Congress of Radiology Provisional Committee, Organising Committee, and Grand Committee, 1924-1925; attendance book, 1925;

papers of F G Spear relating to British Radiation Martyrs -presented 1961; copies of letters to and from William Roentgen, 1896-1905; telegram from Lord Kelvin, 1896; news cuttings relating to radium, 1903-1904; volumes of radiographs including W A Coldwell's collection of albums of radiographs 1901-[1918] ; Albums of radiographs, Vol 1, [1896-1898] and Vol 2 [1915]; and album of x-ray plates, (undated).

photograph albums including BIR 22nd Annual Congress, 1961; BIR album compiled by Dr F Gordon Spear, President 1961-1962 [1940s-1960s]; BIR technical exhibition 1967, and 1964; Farewell to No 32 [Welbeck St, 1981]; BIR Portland Place, 1980s; Official opening [of Portland Place premises, 1982]; album of photographs of x-ray tubes, presented by the Physics Department, The City University, 1976; and other photographs 1990-1993;

glass plate negatives collection including images of Röntgen tubes [1879-1911]; X-ray tubes (37 slides) part of collection of slides listed in the 1966 BIR Handbook; large glass plate negatives of Lord Salisbury's hand, 1896; Crooke's hand; fish-lemon sole; A J Balfour's hand 1896; and Lord Kelvin's hand 1896;

x-ray plates, including Lord Salisbury's hand, 1896; and early x-ray glass slides (undated);

hospital records including Guy's Hospital, London, Radiographic Day Book, Edward W H Shenton, 1900; Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, X-ray register, 1914-1915; Middlesex Hospital radium requisition book (carbon copies), Apr 1963;

printed copy of Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters, J S and H G Thompson, T Fisher Unwin, London 1920 (containing some photos and loose papers relating to Thompson); copy of thesis 'Adult Bronchiectases', Dr Barclay, 1930.

The study was based on meetings and taped interviews with consultants, junior doctors and nursing staff, plus documentary evidence. The latter is not included in the records given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, nor (with one exception) are the records of meetings, but the taped interviews have been deposited in full. The interviewees give pseudonyms rather than their actual names.

Surgical notebooks and notes of Robert Ramsay on operation for congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus, c 1917-1934.

Collection of short papers on surgical subjects, c 1925.

Notes relating to Robert Hull, c 1820-1847, including notes of lectures by James Blundell (1790-1877), taken by Hull, and notes on operations by Hull at the Norwich Eye Infirmary.

WMS/Amer.91 is one of a series of annual orders for general estate supplies sent by Washington to London. MS.7799 comprises a photograph of a letter from Washington shortly before his death, discussing his false teeth, plus supporting documentation.

MSS. 5958-5963 comprise journals of A B Barton, mainly written while he was a medical officer in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P & O), 1853-1858. They cover his journeys between Bombay, Singapore and Hong Kong; to the Crimea; and to the Far East. They include descriptions of the progress of the Chinese rebellion (MS. 5959), tending to and transporting the sick and wounded from Balaclava to Scutari (MS. 5960), and his shipwreck off the coast of Ceylon, together with General Henry Havelock, on the steamer Erin (MS. 5962). Some are manuscript or typescript copies. MSS. 7589-7594 comprise journals and sketches mainly relating to the Yangtse expedition, led by Captain Thomas W Blakiston, on which Barton served as a medical officer, 1861. One journal, MS. 7591, also records the end of the expedition and Barton's journey to Ceylon via Singapore, with entries on hunting expeditions in Ceylon. The journals are all fair copies. MS. 7592 comprises a narrative of the Yangste expedition read by Barton to the Royal Geographical Society, based on his journals. MS. 7593 is a series of mainly topographical illustrations relating to the expedition, comprising sketches by Barton, plus photographs and engravings based on other sketches by Barton, some of which were used to illustrate Five Months on the Yang-Tse by Thomas W Blakiston (London: John Murray, 1862). MS. 7594 comprises later papers of Brian M Gould relating to Barton and his journals, 1967 and n.d.

'Notes médicales prises dans les hôpitaux de Paris aux Cours de MM. Velpeau, Claude Bernard, Wurtz, Orfila, etc.' Produced in Paris.

(1) Bouillaud (J. B.) médecine clinique. n.d. (40 ll. + 4 bl. ll.).

(2) Velpeau (A. A. L. M.) Clinique chirurgicale. 1852 (46 ll.).

(3) - Observations de chirurgie. 1852 (32 ll.).

(4) Andral (G.) Observations de chirurgie. 1852 (46 ll.).

(5) Velpeau (A. A. L. M.) Pathologie externe. 1854 (26 ll. + 12 bl. ll.).

(6) Bernard (C.) Cours de physiologie. 1849-50 (46 ll.).

(7) Wurtz (C. A.) Chimie organique. 1849 (92 pp.).

(8) - Chimie organique. 1849 (48 ll.).

(9) - Chimie inorganique. [Incomplete] (27 ll.).

(10) Orfila (M. J. B.) Chimie inorganique (26 ll.).

(11) Velpeau (A. A. L. M.) Notes de pathologie chirurgicale. (14 ll. + 10 bl. ll.).

(12) Notes de médecine légale. (30 ll.).

(13) Notes de médecine légale. [Incomplete] (18 ll.).

(14) Notes de l'hygiène. (34 ll.).

Material comprises typescript papers by Buxton on anaesthesia and dentistry, and notes by Buxton on The muscles of the human body grouped according to their action, with their vascular and nervous supply, C J Manning and F H Elliot (London: H K Lewis, 1875).

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.

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.

MSS.2208-2216 comprise notebooks and essays. MSS.2210-2211 are broader in subject than the rest of this block of material, comprising lectures in physiology; the remainder of the manuscripts in this block focus on issues of specifically tropical medicine. Kala-azar and malaria are particularly featured. MS.2208 also includes a list of birds in Dunduan. MSS.5692-5697 consist of illustrative material (primarily water-colours from microscope slides relating to tropical parasitic diseases), correspondence, cuttings and offprints, and miscellaneous other papers relating to Donovan's work on tropical medicine.

Papers of Rickman Godlee as a student comprising notes of lectures given by Thomas Huxley, sketches of anatomical dissections, and volume on surgery for the anniversary of University College London, 1867-1924.