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Papers comprise a flyer advertising a protest meeting against the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany, 1938.

Tape recording and transcript of H P Greenberg's memories of Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine and his correspondence with them; obituaries of, articles by, reviews of Hunter and Macalpine and Hunter's job applications, 1950-1996.

Papers of Mary Louisa Drabble, 1917-1931, comprising notebooks as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, 1920-1925, testimonials; certificates; photograph; personalia. The collection also contains nursing notebooks of her sister Margery Drabble, was a nurse at Guy's Hospital during early 1920s (notebooks spanning 1922-1925).

Four volumes of notes made by E J Thomas from lectures to trainee nurses at the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley by Bow, East London, c 1905-1910.

Notes on symptoms and prescriptions in 'Wellcome's Medical Diary and Visiting List', 1919.

Photocopy of thesis of Dr Montague Rayne, c 1958-1959, submitted for the degree of MD entitled 'The prognosis in essential hypertension. A survey of five hundred patients' .

Papers of Henry Edward Crooks, [1967-1998] including reminiscences relating to his work as radiographer entitled 'Shaftesbury Military Hospital: A Radiographer's World War II recollection of 21st Company, RAMC Military Hospital, Dorset (with map and photographs)', Nov 1998; extract from 'Once Upon A Ward: VADs' own stories and pictures of Service at Home and Overseas 1939-1946', compiled by Doreen Boys, containing further information about Shaftesbury Military Hospital; paper by Crooks, 'The Introduction of the Copper-Reference X-Ray Pentameter', Oct 1998; United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Research Group Memorandum, 'Diagnostic X-Ray Beam Quality', by GM Ardran and Crooks, 1967 and Curriculum Vitae of Crooks.

Prescription books, Martindale and Co chemists, 1936-1970.

Personal accounts on the development of interferon and cytokine research, mainly written in the 1990s and early 2000s, and related materials including photographs correspondence, slides, offprints and other papers.

Papers of Professor James Walter McLeod, [1940-1945], including minute book of the Central Penicillin Committee, Leeds, Oct 1944-Apr 1945, and photographs of laboratories, University of Leeds, c 1940s.

'Essays on the general problems of pathology: an introduction to the study of morbid life by Hans Ortel', c 1940. Typescript, with some manuscript additions and emendations.

Papers of Professor Thomas Richard Parsons, 1922-1959, including correspondence, lecture notes and memoranda, mainly 1920s-1930s.

Papers of Ernest George Pringle including lecture notes and case notes (while at St Bartholomew's Hospital) and personal items c 1900-1913.

Lecture notes on comparative embryology, psychology and prehistory, Keble College, Oxford, early 1920s.

Papers of Frederick William George Wolff entilted, 'Research in medicine in North America. Some impressions of a study and lecture tour undertaken between March and June 1958.'

Papers of Moya Woodside including leaflets of the Society for Constructive Birth Control, Belfast, with some National Birth Control Association material, c 1937-1942, reminiscences of work in birth control, 1981, 1984, and histories of the Edinburgh Brook Centre.

Charles Berry collection of 3 notebooks: pathology, bacteriology, tropical medicine, c 1920.

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.

Case transcripts, press cuttings, memoranda, reports and correspondence acquired by Henry Hillyard, Sanitary Inspector to Malvern UDC, relating to cases concerning responsibility for polluted water at a hydropathic establishment and a school in Malvern, 1898-1910.

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 relating to Montague Knapp's service as Fleet Surgeon, Senior Medical Officer to XI Destroyer Flotilla, HMS Blake, 1915-1917; medical records (largely relating to syphilis), 1910-1917; documents from German naval surgeon; photographs.

Tape recordings of interviews with the Biochemistry Society, on Albert Chibnall's life and work and the development of biochemistry in Britain, with transcripts, 1983-1984.

Lecture notes, miscellaneous correspondence and "memoirs" (short stories, often with an autobiographical element) covering his career, 1909-1976. The collection comprises 7 series: 1: file on career, 1920s-1976; 2: 'memoirs' - short stories, composed at various times during Hartridge's life which he intended to publish on his retirement, 1909-1976. His daughter selected those stories which had an autobiographical element in them; 3: Notes, 1947-1953; 4: Corrrespondence, 1928-1951; 5: Lectures, 1920s-1950s; 6: Publications, 1949-1950; 7: Photograph and painting, 1920s-1970s.

Thirteen slides of interior views of Lakeside Health Centre [1975-1976].

Papers of Richard Henry Hardy, 1952-1992, including records of cases and correspondence, general practice, Exmouth, 1952-1970, and Hereford General Hospital Accident and Emergency Department, 1971-1984, with reprints and unpublished writings, 1948-1992.

Papers of Julian Tudor Hart, including patient records from practice, microfilms, administrative files and card index, 1961-1997.

Notes of Grays Health Centre patients seen privately, 1971-1978, and on behalf of Ford Sick Benefit Society, 1975-1988; also some correspondence and ephemera, 1920s-1940s.

Papers of Keith Hodgkin, 1939-1994, including index cards of lecture, ward round and case notes made while a student at the Radcliffe Infirmary and the Hammersmith Hospital 1939-1943, and patient records from his practice 1954-1979. There are also reports and surveys illustrating the use of practice records in research. His Family Record contains reminiscences and evaluation of his professional, as well as family life, and material relating to his grandfather's uncle, Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866).

Practice accounts of Dr Alfons Letchner, 1935-1974 and a brief history of the practice by Letchner's daughter.

Cash books, ledgers and day books, of general practice in New Cross, London SE4, 1918-1933.

Papers of David Hutchison, 1942-1980, including copies of partnership accounts, 1951; plans and photographs of 1960s alterations to practice premises; audio tapes of reminiscences: description of general practice pre- and post-war, mainly relating to record keeping and surgery, description of alterations to premises (with transcripts), school and student days, service in the RAF medical service in South East Asia during the Second World War and gypsum 'wart stones' .

Papers of Dr Alfred Model, 1890-1968, including cash book, 1939-1948, from Model's GP practice in Reddish near Stockport; reprints of journal articles, 1957-1968 and dissertation by Dr Model's father, Lehmann (1864-1918) on Bronchitis Fibrinosa, 1890.

Notes, cards, forms and other papers accumulated over the years by Dr David Greig and his predecessors at Somerset General Practice, 1916-1949.

Lecture notes, taken by various students, 18th and 19th century.

Medical, cookery, and household receipts and prescriptions. There are many blank leaves, and a large number of the receipts are inserted loose. Among the latter are 17 holograph receipts, dated between 1830 and 1832 by Jules Sichel [1802-1868], the ophthalmologist. These were all prescribed for Lady Julia.

Papers of Sir George Ballingall, 1808-1852, including correspondence and papers collected by Ballingall, used to illustrate his lectures at Edinburgh University; correspondence with David Barry (1780-1835) FRS, on colon inflammation and other matters; letters, memoranda and case studies on venereal disease, amputations and other surgical procedures, army and navy punishments, hospital conditions and tropical medicine including with Sir Andrew Halliday (1781-1839) and Joshua Brookes (1761-1833) and printed material with diagrams of litters for troops in India.

Material relating to Stuart Craddock's research while working with Alexander Fleming, 1909-2000, in particular on penicillin and acne, a personal manuscript memoir of Fleming, and correspondence with Fleming, Lady Fleming, Ronald Hare, Prof F Bustinza of Madrid, Norman Heatley and others, also some personalia.

Manuscript exhibition labels listing Spanish and Persian medicines.

Early eighteenth century transcript by an unknown writer of John De Gorter's [Jan van Gorter] Commentaries.

One notebook on practical chemical analysis while at St Hilda's School Cheltenham, notebooks of lectures and courses while a student at London School of Medicine for Women, notes of cases seen while medical student, some later notebooks on matters of medical and surgical interest, and accounting lectures, diploma from the Comité Britannique de la Croix Rouge Française for service to France during the First World War, resolution from the Medical Women's Federation congratulating her on being made a Dame of the British Empire.

MS. 3352: Copy dated c1805 of a journal of a voyage from London to Cochin-China, 11 September 1792-15 June 1793. Note on verso of leaf 2 signed 'J.B.' (Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), Secretary to the Admiralty, and founder of the Royal Geographical Society) states 'This journal was written by Lord Macartney on board the Lion merely for his own amusement and to pass away a few heavy hours on a very long sea voyage'. MS. 5746: Correspondence and papers relating to medical services in Madras, 1782-1787, comprising 2 letters to Macartney from John Ruding, surgeon, Chingleput, 1782, 1783; letter to Macartney from James Hodges, Masulipatam, 1783; letter to Macartney from George Bell (d.1789), surgeon, Tanjore, 1783; Committee Minute on a proposal by Macartney for a fixed establishment of surgeons, 1784; letter to Macartney from Terence Gahagan, surgeon, enclosing a copy of his plan for the reform of the medical department, Vellore, 1787 (the plan is addressed to Macartney's successor as Governor of Fort St George, Madras, Sir Archibald Campbell).

Rogers' holograph manuscript. Volume 1 is entitled 'Obituaries of eminent persons'. Volume 2 (dated on the title 1847) is entitled 'Obituary of eminent persons and private friends', and is illustrated by 32 tinted photographs. Among the photographs are those of: Sir Charles Hastings (1774-1866); Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865); and Sir Joseph Paxton (1804-1865). The volumes contain numerous biographies of doctors and scientists who died during the period of the record. The obituaries include various figures of Australasian interest such as Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826); Rev. Daniel Tyerman, missionary; George Bennet, missionary (fl.1812-1841); Rev. Thomas Slatyer, missionary, Samoa; and Colonel Robert Torrens (fl.1837).Each volume contains a stipple engraved portrait of the compiler, and his armorial book-plate.

Notes taken from the lectures by Jean Astruc (and occasionally other figures), produced in Paris or Montpellier, 1723-1761.

Notes of Charles Barbeyrac's practice taken chiefly by his students. Some case histories are included in MS.7126.

Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, avec des Mémoires: Classe de Philosophie Expérimentale. Illustrated with folding and other pen and wash drawings. Produced in Berlin, 1748-1757.

Correspondence and papers of Thomas Bickerton, 1884-1927, mainly concerning professional matters. The papers reflect Bickerton's interest in colour blindness, and his studies of seamen and railwaymen in this respect. Also his work at Liverpool Medical Institution is well documented, with details of opthalmic surgery and case photographs surviving.

Two volumes of notes, on medical and chemical books, and on diseases and their treatment, c 1800-1823.

The collection comprises correspondence, writings and administrative material relating to the Jenner family, particularly Dr. Edward Jenner (pioneer of smallpox vaccination) and the associated Black and Davies families, 1680-1877.

The material on Edward Jenner includes papers relating to organisations set up in the aftermath of his vaccination discoveries: the National Vaccine Establishment, the Royal Jennerian Society and the London Vaccine Institution.

Notes on anatomy and physiology illustrated with many carefully executed anatomical drawings in coloured inks. At the end of Vol. II, are a few notes on surgery, dated 1873.

Notes on Herman Boerhaave's lectures and material extracted from his publications, with some material by others, 18th century.