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Thomas Hodgkin MD (1798-1866)

Published and unpublished articles and notes

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"On muscular contractions produced by bringing a solid body into contact with a nerve without a Galvanic circuit", by W F Edwards MSP, read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, manuscript drafts

Manuscript clean copy of a section from paper "On Muscular Contractions"

Précis, in French, of Edwards' experiments

Manuscript drafts of sections of paper "On Muscular Contractions"

Notebook on pharmacy and medicine

De Absorbendi Functione, MD thesis

Notes on medicine in Paris

An Essay on Medical Education, read before the Physical Society of Guy's Hospital

Papers on the observations made using Joseph Jackson Lister's improved microscrope, and written jointly with Lister, on the composition of blood etc.

Bone Disease: part of a paper possibly read to the Hunterian Society, manuscript clean copy

Hints relating to the Cholera in London: addressed to the public in general, but especially to those who possess influence in their Parishes and Districts; and A letter to a Member of the Board of Health, printed text

Presidential address to Guy's Hospital Physical Society, manuscript clean copy

"On the Mode of Selecting and Remunerating Medical Men for professional attendance on the poor of a parish or district: read before the Hunterian Society", printed text (two copies)

Provisional report to the British Association for the Advancement of Science on communication between the lymphatic system and the veins, manuscript clean copy

"On the communications between the lymphatic system and the veins", printed text

Sketch of a paper on the analysis of the glands and morbid growths of the human body, manuscript clean copy signed G.O. Rees

"A lecture introductory to the course on the practice of medicine, delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital", printed text

Paper on morbid growths read before the Hunterian Society, manuscript draft

"Medical Reform: An Address read to the Harveian Society", printed text

"Numerical method of Conducting Medical Inquiries", printed text

"On Diabetes and Certain Forms of Cachexia: two papers read to the Harveian Society", printed text

On the Closure of Arteries at their Origin; and on some morbid changes of the Heart, printed text (two copies)

Description of a Remarkable Specimen of Urinary Calculus: to which are added, Some remarks on the Structure and Form of Urinary Calculi, printed text

"On the production and anatomical characters of some adventitious structures including those regarded as malignant", manuscript draft

"A Case of Smallpox after Vaccination", manuscript clean copy

"On the Effects of Alcohol", manuscript draft

Sexual continence, untitled manuscript draft

The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic disease, review of Sir James Clark's book on the subject; manuscript draft

Medical Reform: letter to the editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal responding to the latter's approval of some of Hodgkin's plans, manuscript draft

Notes and papers on muscular contraction experiments carried out by W F Edwards

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