Pocket Book of Dr Charles Harrison (c.1855-1944)

Pocket notebook compiled by Dr Charles Harrison (c.1855-1944), doctor and Brevet Colonel in the Grenadier Guards, containing comprehensive details of the treatment of patients (largely from 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards) in 1883 -1886. The notebook includes notes on each patient's condition, diet and drug treatments, with some graphs recording temperature, blood pressure etc. There is a list of patients and diseases (largely pneumonia) on page 134.

Harrison later became the first Commandant of Queen Alexandra Military Hospital in Millbank (opened 1905), where he was apparently known as 'the beloved physician'. In the First World War he was asked to reorganise an American hospital at Etaples.

1883-1886

1 volume 134 pages

Given to the library (along with MS.8763) by Mrs Patricia Cleveland-Peck in January 2011.

Catalogued by Helen Wakely, August 2011

Mrs Cleveland-Peck obtained the notebook from Margaret Harrison, one of Charles Harrison's nieces, when editing the autobiography of her sister, the cellist Beatrice Harrison.