A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832.

Charles Sherrington (left), Leon Fredericq (seated) and Paul Grützner (right) outside the Institute of Physiology in Liège. Copy photograph (1940?) after the 1898 original.

XIth International Physiological Congress, Edinburgh, 1923: delegates. Photograph by Debenham, 1923.

Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease / by William Stirling.

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"Attributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and reputation in science and medicine. This volume will help the reader to better understand the dynamics of the attribution of excellence throughout the 20th century. Contributors are Massimiano Bucchi, Fabio De Sio, Jacalyn Duffin, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson, David S. Jones, Gustav Källstrand, Ulrich Koppitz, Pauline Mattsson, Katarina Nordqvist, Scott H. Podolsky, Thomas Schlich, and Sven Widmalm"-- Provided by publisher.

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Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

607 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Sechenov : K 150-leti︠︡iu so d︠n︡ia rozhdeni︠︡ia [Sb. stateĭ] / Akademi︠︡ia nauk SSSR, Institut istorii estestvoznani︠︡ia i tekhniki ; Pod red. P.G. Ko︠st︡iuka [and others].

Studi su Felice Fontana

xix, 422 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.

Felice Fontana, life and work / Peter K. Knoefel.

These letters and autographs of scientists and doctors were given to Miss Ainsworth for her collection by Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, a friend of her father. A few of the autographs are from letters to her father, M Ainsworth, or collected by him for her. A number of them were annotated by Sir Charles, or Miss Ainsworth's father, with additional information.
Letters: 
Sir Joseph Barcroft, Cerro de Parco (Peru) 'high altitude expedition', 4 Jan 1922,
Sir Henry Dale, Mount Vernon House Hampstead NW3 'on occasion of knighthood', 3 Jan 1932,
Sir Ifor Evans, Provost, University College London, 3 Nov 1964,
Sir Howard Florey, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Oxford, 16 Nov 1960,
John Sanderson Haldane, Oxford, [3 page letter discussing physiology] 18 Oct 1928,
W D Halliburton, Church Cottage, Marylebone Road NW1, 26 Feb 1926,
Alan Hodgkin, Cambridge, 27 Oct 1963,
Ivan Pavlov, Leningrad, [in German, mentioning Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer], 10 Jun 1930,
Sir Charles Sherrington, Oxford, 9 Jun 1924,
Ernest H Starling, University College London [on Foulerton Professorship and insulin], 13 Dec 1922.
Autographs (in some cases more than one for each individual), mostly cut from letters, but some on loose pages from autograph album:,
Philip A Allison,
Hugh Clegg,
E C Dodds,
C G Douglas,
J C Eccles ('Nobel Prize 1963'),
 L Farrer-Brown,
Jack Gaddum,
R A Galgany,
Louis Guttman,
Fong Yen Hsu,
Maj-Gen J Huston,
Andrew Huxley; Louise and Georg Kahlson,
J C Kendrew ('Nobel Prize, recent TV lectures Molecular Biology "The Thread of Life"'),
 Prof Yas Kuno ('senior physiologist of Japan now retired'),
Sir John Lockwood ('Master of Birkbeck College London'),
Douglas H K Lee,('US Dept of Health Education and Welfare,Occupational Health Research,Cincinnati Ohio'),
Sir Douglas Logan,('Principal,Univ of London')
Sir Charles Lovatt-Evans,
A A Miles,
Frederick R Miller,
Prof G Paulet,
 B H Spilsbury,
Donald D van Slyke,
C P Snow,
John R Squire,
Ernest H Starling,
 Giulio Stella ('Prof Physiology at Padua. The Accademi dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynx) is the senior academy of Europe - early XVII cent'),
Professor Chiao Tsai ('Prof of Physiology,Pekin'),
Sir Owen Wansborough-Jones,
V B Wigglesworth,
Prof F G Young,
Prof Sir Solly Zuckerman,
 Prof A O Zupancic (Ljublana),
1 illegible and unidentified.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

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Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities

259 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Sechenov : K 150-leti︠︡iu so d︠n︡ia rozhdeni︠︡ia [Sb. stateĭ] / Akademi︠︡ia nauk SSSR, Institut istorii estestvoznani︠︡ia i tekhniki ; Pod red. P.G. Ko︠st︡iuka [and others].

Felice Fontana, life and work / Peter K. Knoefel.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

The Mendelian dioskuri : correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898-1951 / Michal Simunek [and others] eds.

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Physiologists

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Works

Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Sechenov : K 150-leti︠︡iu so d︠n︡ia rozhdeni︠︡ia [Sb. stateĭ] / Akademi︠︡ia nauk SSSR, Institut istorii estestvoznani︠︡ia i tekhniki ; Pod red. P.G. Ko︠st︡iuka [and others].

Felice Fontana, life and work / Peter K. Knoefel.

Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs

The Mendelian dioskuri : correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898-1951 / Michal Simunek [and others] eds.

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