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Manuscript notes taken by Robert Steavenson on 'A complete course of lectures on midwifery and on the diseases of pregnant and puerperal women and of children' from lectures delivered by Thomas Young, Edinburgh, 21 Jul 1776.

Holograph notes taken down by [Sir] Charles Blagden [1748-1820] when a student at Edinburgh University, from Thomas Young's lectures on midwifery .

Papers of The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, 1617 to present day, chart the history of its development and its changing roles and activities and notably comprise constitutional records, 1617 to present day, including charters, grants of arms, rules and ordinances, and bye-laws; records of governance, 1617 to present day, including Court and committees' minutes and standing orders; membership records, c 1670s- present day, including Yeomanry and Livery lists, freedom admission registers, quarterage books and apprenticeship bindings, and financial records, 1626 to present day, including Wardens' accounts, ledgers, bonds and annual accounts.

The collection also includes records concerning associated trade/professional organisations including the Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal College of General Practitioners, University of London, Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and British Medical Association. Also those of specialist interest bodies of the Society, including The Friendly Medical Society, The Association of Physicians and Surgeons of the Society of Apothecaries Limited, The Association of Certificated Dispensers; the Society's educational charities The Faculty of History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy and The Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine; The Court of Examiners and Examinations Committee, including minutes, correspondence, lists of Licentiates including Elizabeth Garrett and Ronald Ross, lists of 'Assistants to an Apothecary', candidates' entry books, questions papers and marking sheets; Chelsea Physic Garden, including Garden Committee minutes, account books, catalogues of plants, deeds and photographs; the pharmaceutical manufacturing and retailing businesses including the Laboratory, Navy and United Stock companies; Society's awards and lectures including the Rogers Prize, Gillson Scholarship in Pathology, Galen Medal, Strickland Goodall Memorial Lecture and Gold Medal and the Keats Lecture.

Papers include administrative and legal records, including those of the Clerk's office, Counsels' opinions, those concerning hospitality and ceremonial events, year books, Royal Addresses, Royal Commissions of Enquiry and staff records. Records of gifts and charities including Distressed Members' Fund, Widows' Fund, donations and bequests, and records of the Hall including deeds, plans, inventories, rentals, records of building works and photographs.

Papers of Thomas Wormald, 1818-c 1867, comprising a certificate for apprenticeship to John Abernethy, and autobiographical notes, 1818-c 1867; and letters from Sir Richard Owen, 1856-1859.

Records of the Woolwich Group Hospital Management Committee, comprising correspondence files, 1935-1974, on subjects including the Endowment and Amenities Fund; land and buildings of the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies; the constitution and reorganisation of the National Health Service; maternity services at the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies; the Medical Planning and Joint Health Services Committee; the standardisation of medical records; training schools for nurses; staff appointments and resignations and the Group Officers and Hospital Secretaries' Meeting.

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.

The collection is arranged in chronological order and includes letters written by and to individuals concerned with work in this area, including: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, Sir John Seeley, George Eliot, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Cardinal Manning, Lady Strangford, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Rickman J Godlee Dr Helen Wilson, Dr Sophia Jex-Blake, Frances Power Cobbe, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lord Baldwin and Margaret Lawrence (45 items, 1865-c.1972). Subjects include the training of women as doctors, the medical profession and their experiences as medical students.

Records of Leslie R Wolfson's dental practice, 1934-1987, consisting largely of accounts such as balance sheets, cash books, bills, receipts and tax papers relating to Mr Wolfson's dental practices in Enfield; sample of patients' record cards (patients unidentifiable); booklets, pamphlets, and so on regarding aspects of dentistry, National Health Service leaflets and other leaflets on dental charges; and correspondence concerning property transactions in Enfield including agreement for sale of general practice at Grange Park, Enfield.

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 Albert Wilson, c1870, comprising a volume titled [H]uman [P]athology, Prof. Saunders, 2 containing manuscript notes by Wilson, taken at the Pathology lectures of Professor Sanders at Edinburgh University; and a loose sheet containing notes on Tubercular Phthisis. The sheet of paper is from the Edinburgh Medical-Missionary Society's Training Institution and Dispensary at No 39 Cowgate. Wilson was resident physician at the Cowgate Dispensary.

Papers of Dr. W. O. Williams comprising:

B WO A Williams committee papers 1966-1971
Records relating to Dr. W. O. Williams' membership of the Research Committee and the Academic Review Committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners. B WO B Williams Research Unit papers 1972-1988
Records relating to Dr. W. O. Williams' involvement with the Epidemic Observation Unit and the Swansea Research Unit of the Royal College of General Practitioners.B WO C Williams research and publications 1954-1988
Records relating to Dr. W. O. Williams' research projects and publications, includes bornholm disease, whooping cough, death certification, genetic cancer and doctors' workload. B WO D Williams miscellaneous papers.

Papers of Charles Wilkinson, 1787-1788, comprising a volume containing manuscript notes by Wilkinson, of lectures given by John Hunter. Including a note by William White Cooper written in 1838, containing information about the author, the lectures, and how he located the manuscript.

Manuscript volume containing notes on Robert Whytt's clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh University, [1760], taken by an unidentified student. Also includes some 'Directions given by the Physician General at the Havannah to the surgeons of the Army relating to the management of the sick'.

Papers of Sir Harold Whittingham including A. Personal Papers and Early Career, 1904-1956, including papers on cancer research, Glasgow, 1904-1915; B. RAF Sandfly Fever Commission, Malta, 1921-1952; C. RAF Medical Services, c.1920-1945; D. Biochemistry Lectures, London School of Tropical Medicine, 1926-1930; E. British Red Cross Society, 1946-1959; F. Flying Personnel Research Committee, 1940-1976; G. British Airways Overseas Corporation, 1945-1970; H. International Air Transport Association Medical Committee, 1949-1960; J. World Health Organisation, 1948-1968; K. Commonwealth Development Corporation, 1958-1976; L. History of RAF Medical Services, 1958-1983 and M. Publications, 1911-1975.

Papers of John Whitsed, early 19th century, comprising a transcript of notes by Whitsed of John Hunter's lectures on Surgery, originally taken by Mr Hopkinson in the early 1780s; letter from William Clift to Dr Whitsed, 6 Sep 1785, regarding the loan of the volume to him; a cutting from The Englishman magazine regarding the manuscripts of John Hunter; a letter from the donor Thomas James Walker MRCS; and a reply of thanks from the College.

Manuscript volumes collected by Richard Whitfield comprising lecture notes taken either by Whitfield or unidentified pupils including:
one volume of notes on a course of anatomy lectures by Henry Cline including lectures on pathology and physiology, 1793, delivered 1787, taken by Whitfield;
one volume of notes on anatomical lectures of Joseph Else delivered at St Thomas's Hospital, [1780], including notes on John Hunter's lectures on anatomy, 1781, taken by an unidentified pupil;
six volumes of notes on Fordyce's lectures on medicine, delivered [1788-1789], taken by Richard Whitfield, [1792], containing lectures on material medica, natural history of the human body, doctrine of diseases, doctrine of fevers, doctrine of inflammations, particular inflammations, inflammation of the mucous membrane, lues venereal, eruptive fevers, chronic diseases, spasmodic disease;
three volumes of notes on lectures on the practice of physic of James Gregory, delivered at Edinburgh, 1814, taken by an unidentified student;
one volume of notes on William Herbeden's lectures containing observations on the history, nature and cure of poisons, delivered at the College of Physicians, 1749, with copy notes made by Whitfield, 1792;
two volumes of notes on surgical lectures by John Hunter, 1786;
four volumes of notes on anatomical and surgical lectures by Alexander Monro, [1788];
1 volume of notes on Percivall Pott's surgical lectures, delivered [1787], taken down [1794];
and one volume titled Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica vel Institutiones Chirugicae.

Records of the Westminster Hospital Medical School, later Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, 1885-1986, comprising minutes of the Academic Board, 1948-1984; minutes of the Finance Committee and Council, 1948-1984; minutes of the School of Medicine Committee and Council, 1933-1961; minutes of the Library Committe, 1948-1986; minutes of the Brabazon House Committee, 1948-1962; students' registers, 1890-1973; exam results, 1934-1985; prospectuses, 1947-1984; Westminster Hospital Reports, 1885-1934; copies of The Broadway, 1899-1970.

Papers of the West Lambeth Health Authority, including:
District Management Team minutes, 1974-1991;
standing orders and provisions in the National Health Service Regulations governing the conduct of meetings and proceedings of the authority, 1982;
reports and papers relating to planning for healthcare provision, 1974-1986;
papers regarding the computer policy, 1976-1985;
general reports and papers relating to the functioning of the hospitals, 1974-1984;
papers of the Department of Community Medicine, 1973-1979;
papers relating to Lambeth Hospital and Community Care Centre, 1977-1986;
papers relating to the South Western Hospital, 1973-1983;
papers of the Terminal Care Support Team, 1977-1982;
papers relating to Tooting Bec Hospital, 1975-1985;
publications, 1975-1988;
issues of 'Inner Circle', staff newsletter, 1976-1988;
papers relating to the proposed transfer of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, 1982-1987;
papers relating to Saint John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, 1981-1985;
papers relating to other hospitals, including the South Western Hospital, 1979-1981, South London Hospital for Women, 1974-1989, Royal Waterloo Hospital, 1978-1981, Grosvenor Hospital, 1979-1980 and Belgrave Hospital, 1980-1987;
papers of the Strategies and Resources Advisory Committee, 1987-1990;
minutes and papers of West Lambeth Health Authority meetings, 1982-1993;
district reviews, 1983-1987;
papers of the Resource Allocation Working Party, 1982-1988;
membership papers, including correspondence, 1987-1999;
Saint Thomas' Health District (Teaching), District Management Team master papers, 1974-1981;
West Lambeth Health Authority, District Management Team master papers, 1981-1992;
District General Managers Advisory Group papers, 1985-1990;
District Management Board papers, 1986-1990;
Nursing Policy Group meeting papers, 1976-1982;
reports and papers of the Chief Nursing Officer, 1965-1987.

Letters of the Weekes family, comprising mainly correspondence between Hampton Weekes and his family, 1801-1803, whilst a medical student at St Thomas's Hospital, 1801-1803, detailing his expenses, his training and operations he saw by hospital surgeons, including those by John Chandler, Astley Cooper and Henry Cline; also includes letters from Owen Evans to Mr Weekes, 1796; letter from Mr Brown to Mr Weekes Jnr, 1806; letter from Charles Betham to Miss Weekes from, 1890. Also letter relating to the deposit of the material, 1942.

Webb's letter books compiled whilst a medical student, 1903-1909, containing letters from Webb to her friends, Mrs Annie Lancaster, Mrs Eliza Romiley, and Miss Christabel Cadbury, describing her life as one of the first women students at Birmingham Medical School, including newspaper cuttings regarding Edinburgh University's graduation ceremony, 1907. Webb prefaced each volume with an explanatory note dated 1924.

Papers of Henry Warren comprising his notes on lectures on anatomy delivered at St Thomas's Hospital by Sir Astley Paston Cooper and Henry Cline, [1802-1803].

Volume of shorthand notes attributed to James Ware, the occulist, on a second course on lectures on surgery, delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, 1810.

Papers of W Waller, surgeon of Gosport, late 18th century, comprising a manuscript volume of notes taken by Waller at John Hunter's lectures, titled An Abstract of Lectures on Surgery delivered at London by Mr John Hunter.

Notes of lectures given at Naples University, all apparently taken by the same student, c 1750.

Students' notes of lectures on veterinary medicine by Verrier, c 1815.

Student notes taken from Gabriel François Venel's lectures including on materia medica and chemistry, 1761-1796.

Small ring binder containing manuscript lecture notes of Eva Veneer on hygiene, dietetics, practical and theoretical nursing, 22 Oct 1940-Nov 1940.

Papers of Dame Janet Vaughan, mainly 1939-1949, including material on her work with the Emergency Blood Transfusion Service, social and industrial medicine and post-War medical services, child guidance, Health Survey and Development Committee in India, and treating sufferers from starvation liberated from Belsen.

Manuscript volume comprising J William Valantines' 'fugitive extracts' and 'practical remarks' from Henry Cline's lectures on anatomy and surgery, 1802, delivered at St Thomas's Hospital, 1783.

Order and account books of Bristol University Physiology Department, 1910-1980 (63 volumes), including Veterinary Department, 1949-1962, order books, 1925-1959, animal register, 1948-1968, repairs and supplies, 1959-1962, capital and revenue accounts, 1948-1980.

Papers of Edgar Ashworth Underwood, 1911-1980. The surviving Underwood papers represent a far from complete record of his career. His correspondence is incomplete and his early career in public health glimpsed by a few notes and papers. The bulk of the collection is made up of the drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of his writings, some of which were never published. Underwood was a perfectionist and polished his work many times. However his immense work for a second volume of A History of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London (to follow Wall and Cameron's history and cover the period 1815 onwards) was never published and sadly the drafts appear to lack one chapter (chapter 15) which has evidently strayed. Similarly a great deal of labour was spent on a history of urology in the late 1950s and early 1960s and on a life of Edward Jenner but neither of these works was ever published, Underwood's failing eyesight inhibiting his researches. However, the collection is valuable in that Underwood meticulously researched and checked evidence and normally kept full records of his work: thus anyone interested in the history of medical education or the apothecaries for example should note the numerous transcripts and copies of administrative records and documents held by the Public Record Office, Guildhall, Royal College of Physicians and elsewhere.

Notebooks of Walter Pickett Turner, 1887-c 1910, containing lectures and observations on tuberculosis: with other notes on medical and scientific subjects, drafts of letters, etc. Author's holograph MSS.

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

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Trainees Committee comprising correspondence and papers, including relating to the establishment of the committee, 1991-2002; agenda, minutes and meetings papers, 1991-2008; papers relating to surveys, 1991-2003.

Notes taken from the lectures of Luca Tozzi on 'Anathomica synthesis, Anthropologia selecta, Synthesis geneanthropologica and Liber practices', c 1685.

Lecture notes on fever, on pathology, and on general medicine from the lectures of Giacomo Antonio Domenico Tommasini.

Papers of John Newton Tomkins, 1831-[1834], comprising his essay on the mechanism of the circulation and the diseases of the heart and large arteries, illustrated by cases and with references to preparations in St Thomas's Hospital's Museum, [1834] (medical prize essay); surgical case notes of 110 patients admitted to St Thomas's Hospital, 1831-1832.

Papers of John Gordon Thomson, 1914-1941, comprise a personal file relating to his appointment, his position and work at the School of Tropical Medicine, and his death (1914-1941) and correspondence with various individuals relating to tropical diseases including blackwater fever (1921-1929).

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

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.

Pseudonymous autobiography of family doctor, in his 80s in 1990s, describing his own sexual experiences and deficiencies of medical education respecting sexual questions. 'The Enigma of Sex' Introduction. Chapter One: Childhood Behaviour Chapter Two: Courtship Chapter Three: Early Married Life Chapter Four: Middle Age and Beyond Chapter Five: Reflections and conclusions Chapter Six: Positive Suggestions Chapter Seven: Some Thoughts on the Art of Rearing a Family.

Minutes and papers of the 1942 Club, 1942-1993.

Papers and correspondence, 1860-1944 and undated, of and relating to Sir George Dancer Thane, largely concerning his career, comprising papers on lectures, 1879-1918, including drafts and newspaper reports of his introductory address at the opening of the Medical School at University College London, 1879, and various lectures on anatomy, 1899-1918; notes, 1872-[1911], 1923-1929, on various subjects including dissection, racial characteristics, and other aspects of anatomy, and a list of books to the Anatomical Library of University College London; ten scrapbooks of anatomical drawings, 1867-1913, and undated loose anatomical drawings and medical photographs; other medical papers, 1878-[1926] and undated, including scrapbooks of medical press cuttings, 1878-1914, dates and subjects of dissection classes, 1885-1900, printed papers of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1887-1897, announcements of lectures, including some by Francis Galton, 1873-1912, papers on University reform in London, 1919, and miscellaneous others; correspondence, 1880-1930 and undated, from over 110 correspondents; personalia and ephemera, 1860-1930 and undated, including certificates, invitations and programmes, papers concerning honours including Thane's knighthood, papers relating to his death, and genealogical notes relating to the Thanes and others, and also papers concerning Lady Thane, 1884-1944; photographs, 1883-1920 and undated, including eleven photographs of Thane, 1883-1920, an undated photograph of Lady Thane, an album of photographs of their honeymoon, 1884, and a photograph of the dissecting room of University College London [1918]; box of bones and fossils.

University College London typescript medical biographies.

Lezioni di Clinica Medica, per l'anno scolastico 1807-1808, 1808-1809. On the fly-leaf of the first volume is the following inscription: 'Queste lezioni di Clinica Medica/che il Professore Testa/diceva/Le raccolse e scrisse di mano propria/un mio compagno di studio/il quale/dappoi per bisogno vendeva/chi li compri/fu il Dottor Vincenzo Minelli/chi vendette/Alessandrini/[Signature of Minelli]/Sant' Agata Bolognese, 16 Gennaio 1876/Visto autografa la soprascritta/firma del Sig. Dr. Vincenzo Minelli/Il Sindaco/[Signature of Antonio Cave, Lodi, Asst. delegato. Official Stamp of the Munioipio di Sant' Agata. Bologna]. Produced in Bologna.

'Trattato di chirurgia'. Lettered on spine 'Instituzioni Chirurgiche': an unnamed student's notes of lectures taken from the lectures Gaetano Termanini. Produced in Bologna, c 1815.

Papers of John Henry Sylvester, 1852-1853, comprising a manuscript volume of notes titled Occupation during Studentship at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1852, describing the actitivies of Sylvester whilst he was a Student of Anatomy, including dissections, remounting specimens, listing and cataloguing specimens, reading in the Library, and hospital visits. Sylvester's work is countersigned by Frederic Carpenter Skey, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery from 1852.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Subspecialty Board / Subspecialty Committee, 1984-2007, comprising: minute books (1984-2002); agenda, minutes and papers (1984-2007); survey on subspecialisation; requests for funding; correspondence regarding eligibility; sample assessment forms; Chairmans' correspondence; subspecialty guidelines (1991-2003); papers regarding community gynaecology and reproductive health. Trainee files are not retained, although reports on individual trainees can be found in the agenda papers.

Papers of the RCOG Sub-specialisation advisory group, including agenda, minutes, correspondence and other records of the advisory groups into fetal medicine, gynaecological oncology, and reproductive medicine, 1984; correspondence with senior British obstetricians and gynaecologists concerning further sub-specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology, 1983; proposed curriculum and special requirements for sub-specialisation in gynaecological oncology, undated; curriculum for specialisation in fetal medicine and proposals for learning and training in maternal-fetal medicine, undated; training programme for gynaecological urology, undated; guide to learning in reproductive medicine, undated; papers of T L T Lewis, chairman, 1983-1984; correspondence of Professor Richard Beard, chairman, Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee (SAPC), concerning the sub-specialisation advisory group, 1983-1984; draft copy of final report, with amendments, 1984; copies of the report of the working party on further specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology; report of the manpower advisory sub-committee of the RCOG and RCOG Regulations for Accreditation of Completion of Higher Training of Members of the College, 1980-1983.

William Sturton's certificate of attendance at lectures in surgery, St Thomas Hospital Theatre, 1830-1831.