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Letter of recommendation from the Finsbury Dispensary, including details of Medical Officers, instructions for patients and foot treatment, 1937.

Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

Copy letter from the Matron of Friern Hospital, Mrs A M Blythe, 1941, describing the reception of mothers and babies from the City of London Maternity Hospital after that hospital was severely damaged by bombing, and the treatment and experiences of air raid casualties.

Papers of the Central London School District, 1788-1935, including signed minutes of the Board; minutes, agendas and reports of various Committees including the Education Committee, House Committee, Farm Committee, Ophthalmia Committee, Industrial Training Committee and the Visiting Committee; financial accounts; outgoing letter books; correspondence with local government bodies including the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and Local Board; title deeds and legal documents; weekly returns of children maintained at the school; admission and discharge registers; creed registers; ophthalmia registers; lists of boys and girls for domestic service; and plans of the Hanwell school.

The collection contains minutes of the NUTC and the LUTC from their foundation to the 1950's. Files date from the 1940's to 1984. It also contains a minute book of the Sunday Closing Special Campaign Committee (SCSCC) which transferred its work to the NUTC in 1903 (this Committee may have been appointed by the NUTC). The secretary of the NUTC (and LUTC) also served as one of the two general secretaries on the SCSCC. A minute book of the Free Churches Pledge Signing Campaign Committee (FCPSCC) appears in the collection. This committee was dissolved in 1911. Representatives of the NUTC and LUTC attended meetings which were held in Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, and in 1911 the secretary of the NUTC and LUTC was also secretary of the FCPSCC.

A minute book of the Society of Cogers appears in the collection probably because an NUTC member, H. Weightman (later NUTC secretary and treasurer), was acting secretary of the society c.1919.

The recording of financial income and expenditure into ledgers was not always done. A number of blank ledgers deposited suggest the aim of entering such information, but it was never achieved. An almost complete set of audited, annual summary accounts from 1911 to 1975 provide the bulk of information on finance.

Records of the Hawtrey-Deane family, including manorial records such as court rolls; estate management records such as surveys, rentals and accounts; muniments of title; papers relating to Ruislip parish and church, including the rectory, glebe and tithes; family and household papers and financial accounts; legal papers including records relating to a dispute with King's College and Chancery cases; records of taxation; papers relating to an outbreak of plague in 1636; records relating to Parliamentary business; and verses and poems.

Records of the Small Pox Hospital, Saint Pancras, including registers of outpatients, giving date, from whom inoculated, name, age, residence, remarks, and notes of progress of inoculation on subsequent days of attendance, 1808-1810 and 1821-1822; register of patients showing date, name, age, period of disease on admission, employment, address, payment/name of parish, character of disease, vaccinated/otherwise, date of discharge/death, 1827-1838, (the volume also contains statistical analysis of patient admissions and deaths, 1776-1859 and a list of resident physicians, 1819-1835); and register of in-patients at the Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital, Highgate, 1879-1907.

Records of the Brook General Hospital, Woolwich, including patients' registers, 1897-1963; register of staff, 1926-1930; steward's report book, 1929-1936; account book, 1896-1930; inventories, 1896-1924; administrative files and histories of the hospital.

Records of the National Heart Hospital, consisting of a sample of the case files kept by the physicians of the hospital between 1907 and 1963 and photographs taken by Dr John Mathias Senior Registrar of the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom in 1968.

Case registers from the North Western Hospital, Hampstead, 1896-1948, providing the following information - number, date of admission, name, sex, age, address, parish or area, disease certified on admission, disease diagnosed in hospital (except for the 1st register), complications, and date of discharge, transfer or death.

Records of Hither Green Hospital, 1897-1976, including case notes, registers of admission and discharge, creed, post-mortems, operations, and casualties; records of staff service and conduct and Chaplain's records.

Records of the Joyce Green Hospital, 1873-1980, including Visiting committee and Chapel committee minutes; engineer's reports; papers of the Medical Officer; correspondence; administrative files on the River Ambulance service, hospital ships, and the Royal Commission on Vaccinations; case books; operations registers; baptism registers; death registers; cemetery registers; register of staff; nurses records; matron's records; chaplain's reports and journals; plans of hospital buildings; photographs used to aid identification of rashes, glass plate negatives of smallpox patients, stereograph viewer and prints.

Patient case files from the Portman Clinic and the Tavistock Clinic, 1930-1979.

These records consist of photographs of the staff of the Southern Hospital, Dartford; and plans of Gore Farm Convalescent Hospital, Gore Farm Lower Hospital, Southern Lower Hospital, Southern Hospital and Mabledon Park, Darenth.

Records of Pinewood Sanatorium, 1910-1966, including admission and discharge registers, case register, registers of operations, register of death and mortuary registers.

Papers of the Clare Hall Hospital, 1905-1929, including minutes of the meetings of the Board, Finance Committee, General Purposes and House Committee, Visiting Sub-committee and Farm Sub-committee; annual reports; finance reports; financial papers and papers relating to superannuation.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1935-1982, dated 1911-1982, principally comprising administrative papers relating to his Army career, 1938-1971, including postings in India, Iraq, Persia, Egypt, Cyprus and Singapore; papers relating to his attendance at the 'Buffalo' British nuclear weapons tests, Maralinga, Australia, 1956; course syllabuses, lecture summaries andassociated papers, [1935-1966], notably concerning tropical medicine, entomology, public health, malaria and encephalitis; unsigned report, photographs and other papers relating to flood relief operation, Vientiane, Laos, Sep 1966; photographs, 1942-1961, mainly relating to his service in Malaya, 1958-1961; official War Office and Government of India publications concerning army regulations, training and health and medical services; Bulletins of the Ross Institute, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, 1956, 1959-1962; personal and family correspondence, 1938-1982.

US Armed Forces in Vietnam, 1954- 1975 are microfilmed copies of official and unofficial papers relating to the US Army involvement in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975. Papers are categorised into the following sections: 'Vietnam: Reports of US Army Operations', US Army after action reports during the Vietnam War, 1966-1969; 'Vietnam: US Army senior Officer Debriefing Reports', senior US Army officer debriefing reports during the Vietnam War, 1968-1973; 'Vietnam: Lessons Learned', post-action analyses of the conflict in Vietnam, 1972-1980, and; 'Indochina Studies', reports presented to the US Army Center of Military History, Washington, DC, relating to the effect of the Vietnam War on the Republic of Vietnam, Cambodia (and later the Khmer Republic), and Laos, 1979-1980. US Army after action reports presented to the US Adjutant General's Office (Army), Washington, DC, relate to military operations, including the US joint operation, Operation CRIMP, the attack by air and land to strike at Viet Cong strongholds in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), Jan 1966; and, search and destroy missions and military operations pursued in the Republic of Vietnam by US 1 Infantry Div, US 1 Cavalry Div, US 1 Cavalry Div, US 25 Infantry Div, US 18 Infantry Div, US 101 Airborne Div (Airmobile), US 1 Air Cavalry Div, US 4 Infantry Div, US 11 Armored Cavalry Regt, 1 Australian Task Force, US 1 Special Forces, Feb 1966-Apr 1969. Senior officer debriefing reports presented to the Adjutant General's Office (Army), Washington, DC, relate to US Army organisation and command; Vietnamese local government counterinsurgency actions; the Mission of the US Army Support Command, Saigon; the causative factors of Vietnamese insurgency; US psychological operations (PSYOPS); US Army medical statistics; the US pacification program; the US 101 Airborne Div (Airmobile) re-organisation following the Tet Offensive, 30 Jan- 24 Feb 1968; US Special Forces assistance to the Vietnamese Special Forces; land clearing in Indochina; US Long Range Patrol Activities; the Phoenix Program; the process of 'Vietnamization'; and, the US Army Drug Abuse Program, Feb 1968-Nov 1972. Papers presented to the US Department of the Army on lessons learned from the Vietnam War primarily relate to base development in the Republic of Vietnam; US Army communications and electronics; airmobility; riverine operations; US Army Special Forces operations; US Army command and control; financial management of the campaign in Vietnam; logistics and support; US military intelligence; US tactical and material innovations; allied participation and contributions to the war; US training of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; and, the effect of the war on the US soldier, 1972-1980. 'Indochinese Studies' papers presented to the US Army Center of Military History, Washington, DC, relate to the Vietnam War and its effect on Cambodia and the communist Khmer Rouge; the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong Easter Offensive against the Republic of Vietnam; the effect of the pacification program on the South Vietnamese population; the state of Royal Lao Army; and, the effect of the war on South Vietnamese society and the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, 1979- 1980.

Papers relating to his medical career with the RN, 1939-1952, dated 1908, [1943]-1950, principally comprising typescript texts written as Chief Malariologist with the British Pacific Fleet, [1943-1946], including accounts of his work in Singapore, Hong Kong and Pacific Islands; typescript texts by Mockler and others on malaria and its treatment, [1943-1946]; official annual reportsas Naval Medical Officer of Health, Hong Kong, 1951-1952; lecture notes circulated at the RN Medical School, Alverstoke, to accompany a course on radiological defence, [1947]; British, Australian and US military publications on health and medical issues, 1942-1950, mainly malaria and tropical diseases.

Offprints of articles by Sidney Rosenbaum including: Heights and Weights of the Army Intake, 1951', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General), Vol 117, Part III, 1954;Head Injuries to Motor-Cyclists', with D T Beeston, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 102, 1956; abstract of article Changes in Body Weight and Subcutaneous Fat Thickness in Man on a Polar Expedition', with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Abstracts of the 20th International Physiological Congress, 1956;An Epidemiological Study of Rheumatic Fever in the Army in 1953', with J D H Slater, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 103, 1957; Tuberculosis in the Armed Forces and its Control by BCG Vaccination: A Report to the Research Committee of the British Tuberculosis Association', Tubercle London, 1957;Experience of Pulheems in the 1952 Army Intake', British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol 14, 1957; Army Medical Department Statistics', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 104, 1958;Research in Practice', Army Medical Directorate Bulletin, Second Series, No 9, 1958; abstract of Review of Morbidity Among Young Soldiers', Proceedings of Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 52, 1959;Cross-Sectional Review of Morbidity Among Young Soldiers', British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, Vol 13, No 3, Jul 1959; Acute Rheumatic Fever in Young Men', with J D H Slater, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Vol 18, No 4, December 1959;Report of the Royal Sanitary Commission, 1858', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 105, No 4, 1959; The Association of Medical Discharges from the Army with Initial Grading', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 106, 1960;Body Weight and Skinfold Thickness of Men on a Polar Expedition' with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Clinical Science, Vol 19, No 4, Nov 1960; Home Localities of National Servicemen with Respiratory Disease', British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, Vol 15, No 2, Apr 1961;Stability of Basal Metabolic Rate on a Polar Expedition', with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 16, No 3, May 1961; Health Assessment of Senior Officers: The Value of Periodic Medical Examinations', with W R M Drew, The Lancet, Nov 17 1962;Nomograms for Rates per 1,000', British Medical Journal, Jan 19 1963.

Tables of Average Weights and Expected Variation for the use of the Services', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 109, No 2 1963;Some Aspects of Tuberculosis among National Servicemen', Tubercle London, Vol 44, 1963; `Special Enlistments', with J L Gordon, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 110, No 2, 1964.

A Survey of Sport Played in the Army', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 113, No 2, 1967; manuscript ofA Review of Earlier Work on Skinfold Thickness, Particularly Among Army Personnel', 1979; Population Estimates of Height and Weight in Great Britain at Ages 11 and 15, 1983 and ages 16-19 inclusive, 1980', Annals of Human Biology, Vol 14, No 4, 1987;100 Years of Heights and Weights', The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General), Vol 151, Part 2, 1988; More Than a Century of Army Medical Statistics', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 83, Jul 1990;Casualties in the Two World Wars', The Blue, Vol 120, No 1, Mar 1992; 'British Army Recruits: 100 Years of Heights and Weights', with J P Crowdy, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 138, 1992; Manuscript of A Comparison of Casualties in 200 Years of War', nd. Also articles by others: amendment toChapter 16: Medical Statistics' of the Manual of Army Health 1954, 1958; `A Survey of Heights and Weights of Adults in Great Britain, 1980', by R K Skinner, I B Knight and J S Garrow, Annals of Human Biology, Vol 12, No 2, 1985.

Typescript memoir entitled '37 years in the IMS [Indian Medical Service]', [1938], notably concerning the treatment of tuberculosis in India, 1910-1937, service in Waziristan, North West Frontier, India, 1901-1902, prison service, Jhansi, 1906-1907, and service in World War One with the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1916-1918, 304 pps.

Short papers given by Charles Firmin Cuthbert mainly on surgical subjects, author's holograph MSS and corrected typescripts, comprising (1) 'How and why we breathe', a paper read to the [Gloucester] Philosophical Society, 19 May 1885; (2) Miscellaneous notes on surgical operations, cases, etc, 1889-1923; (3) Evidence given in a Compensation case for alleged injuries to a finger from carbolic acid, 1898; (4) 'Haemorrhage from a chronic gastric ulcer: operation, recovery': with a second draft, the first leaf of which is wanting, 1904; (5) Presidential Address, Gloucestershire Branch of the British Medical Association, 17 Nov 1904, with a corrected typescript copy; (6) 'Malignant disease of the rectum removed by operation: with a discussion on the symptoms and diagnosis of cancer of the rectum', read to the Gloucester Branch of the B.M.A. 18 Oct 1906, with a holograph critical letter on the subject from Louis Bathe Rawling [1870-1940]; (7) The surgical side of the Discussion on Dr. Kirkland's paper 'Where Physician and Surgeon meet' with three holograph corrected typescript copies of Cuthbert's 'Surgical criticism of Dr. Kirkland's paper'. 1907; (8) 'A plea for early operation in Appendix cases', a paper read to the Meeting of the Gloucestershire Branch of the B.M.A., 15 Oct 1908 and holograph-corrected typescripts, letters, notes, etc. collected for the preparation of, or connected with this paper; (9) 'Diagnosis and treatment of cancer of the tongue', with a few holograph corrections and additions, 1910, read at the Gloucestershire Branch of the B.M.A. Meeting on 20 Jan 1910; (10) 'Some surgical considerations relating to the Workman's Compensation Act' with a case-history and medical evidence in an Action under the Act. 1912; (11) 'Permanent care of feeble-minded persons', an address to the [Gloucestershire] Charity Organisation Society, 28 Mar 1912; (12) 'Pitfalls in practice' read at a Meeting of the Gloucestershire Branch of the B.M.A. 26 Apr 1916; (13) 'Demonstrations on the equipment and technique of bone graft surgery by the method of Albee', read at the B.M.A. Association Meeting at Wotton Lodge Nursing Home 20 Dec 1917; illustrated with 38 tracings in ink, mounted on boards from Albee's 'Bonegraft surgery', 1915; (14) 'The surgical aspects of tuberculosis', an address given at the Guildhall, Gloucester, 6 May 1920; (15) 'Paralysis in children: deformities resulting from paralysis', [c. 1920] (16) Addresses by or connected with Dr. Cuthbert, etc., 1923-1926.

The collection comprises lectures and papers by Davey on administration and health issues as they relate to East Africa

Two abridgements of Pierre Dionis's 'Cours d'opérations de chirurgie', in Italian.

Clifford Dobell's personal papers, including protozoology drawings, his reviews of books, original plates and drawings for Dobell's scientific papers. Also, Dobell's papers relating to Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854-1925) and his claim to priority in the discovery of the mode of transmission of malaria.

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.

Much of the collection is made up of diaries and notebooks relating to expeditions sent to Africa by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to study diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. From Todd's subsequent career there is also material on journeys to Western Canada to study Swamp Fever in horses and to Poland to study Typhus, some general notes on tropical diseases, a laboratory notebook on experiments with fever ticks and a paper on the Congo Free State as a political unit. The dates covered are 1901-1920. A final block of material consists of letters and loose papers including sketches, covering 1890-1949.

Personal correspondence and papers of Baron Ernst von Feuchtersleben, mainly relating to medical topics and to the Faculty of Medicine in Vienna, 1826-1858. The papers are mainly copies of medical texts with mansuscript annotations and copies of medical essays by him - some unpublished. Also, his case book 1836-1842. The records often relate to the Viennese Medical Faculty, his interest in medical education, and addresses given by him. The correspondence is primarily from medical colleagues in Austria and Germany.

Student notes of lectures delivered by Antoine Fizes in Montpellier.

Papers of Frederick Gardiner comprising short papers on dermatological subjects, and material for the third edition of Gardiner's Handbook of Skin Diseases.

Anonymous student's lecture notes, the manuscripts, written largely in the same hand, have been assigned to Estienne Louis Geoffroy. Produced in Paris, [1760].

Miscellaneous scientific notes of Isidore Geoffroy St-Hilaire, 1783-1861, mainly relating to taxonomy and hybridisation. With some fragmentary corrected proofs of published works and other printed matter.

Papers of Thomas Graham comprising notes, chiefly on chemistry, and some correspondence, 1821-1868.

Note-books of William Dobinson Halliburton chiefly of lecture notes taken while a student at University College, London. Author's holograph MSS. Produced in London, 1874-1902.

Papers of Godfrey William Hambleton including holograph MSS and corrected typescripts, mainly relating to Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Produced in London, 1878-1914.

Papers of Matthew Hay on chemistry, 1882-1884, in particular its application to the life sciences; nitrogen compounds and their use in treating angina pectoris comprise the largest subject. One item (MS.2796) is produced in collaboration with Sir David Orme Masson (1858-1937).

MSS.2968-2988 are chiefly related to Hurry's publications; the best-represented subject in this block of material is "vicious circles" in disease and in general society. In addition, there are papers relating to Hurry's work on Imhotep (vizier and physician to the Pharoah Zoser) and to the woad plant. MSS.6821-6823 comprise correspondence: on the Japanese edition of Vicious Circles in Disease (MS.6821), on the woad plant (MS.6822) and general correspondence (MS.6823).

Traité des fièvres. The general title, and that on the spine is 'Leçons de Médecine'. The work is probably incomplete, as at the end of the second volume is 'Fin du tome second': it appears to be a student's notes of lectures, probably given at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. On page 416 of volume one, the date 1814 occurs, which is stated to be 'l'année dernière'. Produced in Paris.

Correspondence of the Mayor and Aldermen of Kingston-upon-Hull. 1660-1698. Also their meeting book, 1668-1669, containing entries refering to the Plague and quarantine.

Notes of lectures of Jacques Lazerme, physician, 1729-c 1755.

Lectiones in primum librum primi Canonis Avicennae, a Gerardo Cremonensi translati, 1505-1517.

Daybooks of Friedrich Wilhelm Lorinser containing surgical notes, and a collection of manuscripts, 1852-1893.

The collection has two main themes: tropical medical work in West Africa, and swamp fever in horses (the latter relating to work carried out in Winnipeg, Canada).

Notes of lectures (on medical jurisprudence), on cases, and on diseases such as material on digestion and on hip disease, 1877-[1885].

The collection comprises case notes of patients in Amoy and Hong Kong, correspondence, including a typed copy of one to Sir David Bruce (1855-1931) and some miscellaneous papers; the correspondence includes some letters neither to nor from Manson but kept by him, including one from David Livingstone (1813-1873) to his family. Particularly noteworthy is MS.6133, typescript copies of letters from Ronald Ross to Manson written during the former's period of malaria research in India (1897-1899).

Papers of Jean Nicholas Marjolin and his son René Marjolin, 1849-1894, including notes of Jean Nicolas Marjolin's lectures, by a medical student; letters from René Marjolin to his friend Edmond Dascols relating mainly to personal affairs, and the health of the Dascols family (with advice on cholera and other maladies) and letters from Paris at the time of the siege and the Commune, 1870-1871, when René Marjolin was active in treating the wounded prior to his arrest as a Bonapartist agent.

Collection of papers chiefly on gynaecology, plus file of documents relating to the surgeon, Christopher Martin (certificates, letters, biographical information), 1887-1930.

The collection centres on tropical medicine. MSS.3521-3522 consist of general notes on tropical medicine and on museums of tropical medicine; MS.3523 consists of an interleaved copy of Megaw's The first laws of health, considerably expanded.

The collection covers both Pettigrew's medical and antiquarian activities, which are intermingled in the material's arrangement. The medical items include correspondence with many medical figures, medical jurisprudence (an Anniversary Oration delivered to the Medical Society of London), corpulence, hydrophobia, medical observations by army officers in India, and an autobiographical memoir of the philanthropist and prison-reformer James Neild (1744-1814), transcribed by Pettigrew and incorporated into his life of John Coakley Lettsom M.D. The antiquarian items include material on Kett's Rebellion, Hindu deities, the library of the Duke of Sussex and correspondence with the Italian antiquary Giovanni Spano (1803-1878) and Gaetano Cara, as part of Pettigrew's role as Vice-President of the British Archaeological Society. Types of material held include notebooks, loose papers, correspondence and diplomas.

Student notes of Papa's lectures, Naples, 1728-1731.