Papers relating to the Wellcome Witness Seminars, 1993-1997, including original audio tapes of the seminars (in most cases, master plus copy); photographs of witnesses and other participants; correspondence, both administrative and between the Twentieth Century Group and witnesses; and programmes and lists of participants.
Wellcome Witness SeminarsPapers on a development by Henri Spahlinger of a controversial vaccine treatment for tuberculosis, 1909-1929, and press-cuttings relating to public reaction to his claims 1932-1939.
Spahlinger , Henri , 1882-1965 , Swiss bacteriologistPapers of the Medical Research Club, 1891-1974, comprising minute books, 1891-1974; proposal books, 1891-1924; attendance books, 1891-1984; and centenary history, 1992.
Medical Research ClubPersonal 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.
Archives Committee of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokin ResearchPapers of Forrest Fulton including records of work during Second World War on typhus and marasmus; teaching files for Diploma of Bacteriology and other courses at the LSHTM, material on research and administration, published and unpublished writings, 1950s-1960s.
Fulton , Forrest , 1913-1971 , Professor of Virology'Memorandum on Yellow Fever in Africa' [1941]; notebooks on tropical medicine, including case histories of blackwater fever among military personnel in West Africa, 1941-1945, and anthropology and history of Africa.
Findlay , George William Marshall , 1893-1952 , pathologistPapers of James Craigie including reports, notes, and articles on cancer, typhus, typhoid and polio, spanning the years 1937-1957; also personal papers and photographs. Unfortunately hardly any correspondence survives. Craigie made important discoveries in virology; in particular, during the 1940s in Canada, identifying different types of typhoid strains and other viruses and the bulk of the collection comprises his memoranda produced at the Connaught Laboratories in Canada.
Craigie , James , 1899-1978 , epidemiologistPapers of Professor Leslie Harold Collier including laboratory notebook re heat-stable smallpox vaccine, 1949, and 8 files of correspondence and papers re trachoma research, 1944-1971.
Collier , Leslie Harold , b 1921 , virologistPapers of the British Society of Immunology since the 1950s, plus some papers of individuals connected with the Society.
British Society of ImmunologyDiaries and notebooks, including ornithological, entomological, variological [1910]-1927; research notebooks, common cold and influenza, 1930-1933; notes on international congresses, 1950s-1960s.
Andrewes , Sir , Christopher Howard , 1896-1989 , Knight , virologist