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Sir William Leishman's mounted drawings of spirochaeta recurrentis (relapsing fever organism) from citrated mouse blood (prepared for publication in The Lancet)

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Address delivered at prize-giving at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, by Sir Henry W. Acland, outlining the history of the Army Medical School

The bacteriology of fever in Malta: two papers, both reprinted from the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, bound into one volume

Ms catalogue of photographs shown in Imp(erial) Med(ical) War Museum, E(gyptian) E(xpeditionary) F(orce) Section

Portfolio of cuttings, mainly from the Illustrated London News, re medical services in the Crimean War and re Florence Nightingale

Ms catalogue of drawings, casts, prints, paintings, etc. (in Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent), of anatomical details including details of cases

Boer War memories, by Lieutenant Colonel F.A.B. Daly

The breakdown of young soldiers under training explained, by Surgeon Major F. Arthur Davy; three papers originally published separately as

Volume of copy letters, presented to Thomas Keate, Surgeon General to His Majesty's Forces, by Nodes Dickinson, their author

Album of photographs of Directors of the Indian Medical Service, 1858-1947, copies of pictures which hung in the office of the Director of Medical Services in India

Folder of letters, maps and diagrams re Lieutenant Colonel M. Dunning, Commander, 2nd Lowland Field Ambulance, in the campaigns in the Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917

Bound ms of "Introductory lecture on the practice of physic (delivered January 20th 1819)" by Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Hospitals

A field surgery pocket book: memoranda mainly based on experience in the present war

A field surgery pocket book (revised): memoranda mainly based on experience in the 1939-45 War

Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Foster's collection of material re the history of army medical services

On hygiene in Ancient India, by Surgeon General C.A. Gordon

Roll of Commissioned Officers in the medical service of the British Army who served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the RAMC (1727-1898), by Colonel William Johnston

Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815

Description of a series of watercolour drawings executed by the late Sir Charles Bell, illustrative of wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo, by Deputy Inspector General T. Longmore, Professor of Military Surgery

Photographs and memorabilia of Arthur Martin Leake, RAMC

Scrap-book and Manuals

Army Medical School correspondence and bills re the Montefiore Prizes for military surgery, including posed photographs and sketches for the design of the medal

War Office Memoranda on medical diseases in tropical and sub-tropical areas

Papers of Alexander Cushnie Morison

Thomas Murray's certificate of membership of the Royal College of Surgeons

Bound ms case notes written in captivity by Brigadier L.R.S. MacFarlane (RAMC) re treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand

Address by Dr. John Orsborn to the members of the Southampton Medical Society, in memory of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS "the founder and best teacher of military hygiene of our day"

The Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians (on Harvey's experiments which led to understanding of blood circulation), written by Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS, and read after his death

A list of commissioned medical officers of the army, Charles II to accession of George II, 1660-1727, by Colonel Alfred Peterkin

Material re the Centenary of the Army Pathology Service

Manual for Army Medical Services by Surgeon Major William E. Riordan

Material re the golden jubilee of the RAMC

RAMC Training Manuals

Instructions for the regulation of military hospitals and the sick with divisions of the army in the Peninsula .... bound with manuscript forms for scale of diet, return of medical comforts, report of the arrival of sick, diet abstract, "morning state of General Hospital" (a daily census of patients admitted, discharged, etc.) and bed head ticket (patient's details)

Colonel N. J. C. Rutherford's account of his part, with the field hospital, at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Boer War. Written in pencil "on the battlefield"

A collection of orders, regulations and instructions for the Army: on matters of finance and points of discipline immediately connected therewith, published by order of the War Office. (Section VI deals with "Medical Department of the Army, including the Veterinary Branch")

The tale of a field hospital, by Frederick Treves, Medical Officer attached to the column which relieved Ladysmith during the Boer War

Typed transcripts of letters written by Arthur Henry Taylor, an assistant surgeon with the British Army in the Crimea, to his parents, 1854-1856

Papers of Joseph Marmaduke Taylor

Letters from Edmund P. Hewitt, with the RAMC in South Africa, to his brother, Jack Hewitt, Indian Public Works Department

Second World War medical bulletins and memoranda bound into one volume

Menu and seating plan of a dinner on 8th June "in appreciation of the splendid services of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the eminent civilians attached to it during the war," with a report of the speeches made there

Newspaper cuttings scrapbook on the subject of the rank of Army Medical Officers

Newspaper cuttings scrapbooks re the Army Medical Services/Royal Army Medical Corps, 1895-1907 compiled by Lieutenant Colonel William Johnston

Sir Joseph Fayrer's scrap-books

Bound volume of 11 pamphlets and articles by Major General George J.H. Evatt, RAMC 1878-1920

'In Memoriam Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes' Reprinted from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1876

Notes on sanitation for Indian troops by T. F. Paterson, Captain, Indian Medical Service. 2nd edition, edited by Major D.R. Thapar, Malaria Medical Officer

Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service, re campaigning with the Queens Regiment against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The Tirah Campaign)

Booklet of photographic reproduction of the 'Memorial Roll ("Golden Book") of the Royal Army Medical Corps', designed by Graily Hewitt, with descriptive notes by the artist

'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'

Printed copies of royal warrants re army medicine, bound together

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-May 1856, of the Pathological Board at Balaclava in the Crimea

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?)

Pathological registers of surgeons in the camp before Sebastopol during the Crimean War, divided into sections re febrile diseases, cerebro-spinal, thoracic diseases, abdominal diseases, miscellaneous (mostly drunkenness) and gunshot wounds and surgical injuries

Volume of monthly reports, Jan-June 1856, of the Pathological Board in the camp besieging Sebastopol during the Crimean War

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-April 1856, of the Pathological Board, Highland Division, in the Crimea

7 volumes (numbered 5-11) of Sir Joseph Fayrer's "notes of interesting cases in the Medical College & Hospital (at Calcutta)", in chronological order

Papers of Surgeon John Francis Smet, 8th Light Dragoons

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. H. Morley Fletcher, FRCP

Minute Book of the Committee of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

Bound committee reports and accounts of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

5 volumes of correspondence of William Fergusson, Inspector of Army Hospitals in Portugal during the Peninsular War

Album, signed by Colonel David Bruce, Assistant Professor of Pathology, of photographs of groups of medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, with captions giving surname of each student

Papers of Assistant Surgeon Thomas Murray

Papers of Surgeon Colin Paterson

Copy of a report submitted in 1915 to the Director of Medical Services, India, by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick O'Gorman, IMS, describing a stretcher-lifter as an alternative form of casualty transport to the traditional Indian dandy

Three Chinese scrolls re anatomy

Papers of Surgeon Alexander Simpson (1819-1864)

Burgess ticket of the city of Dundee, conferring freedom of the City and Burgh on David Middleton Greig, CM, FRCSE, for his help to the people of Dundee in the hospitals and other institutions

Papers of Surgeons David Greig and David Middleton Greig (father and son?)

Album of T.B.A. Tuckey, Brevet Colonel, RAMC, containing 5 pencil-written Boer passes "taken from Boer Laager after being shelled by the British at Colesberg, 1900

Health memoranda for soldiers by Lieutenant Colonel H.K. Allport, RAMC

Folder of souvenir issues, newspaper cuttings, etc., re Centenary of the institution of the Victoria Cross

Printed syllabus of a course of lectures for 1846-47 and 1849-50 sessions, on the principles and practice of military surgery, by Jolliffe Tufnell, Assistant Surgeon to the Forces in Ireland, and Surgeon to the Military Prison

Case notes re fractured acromion process (right shoulder) of Bombardier Edward Robins, Royal Artillery

Items re Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, donated by Donald Bowie, who had charge of the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong from August 1942 until liberation in 1945

Material re the life of Dr. James Barry, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, "found upon death to have been a woman"

Jelligraph copies of extracts from Medical Staff Corps orders, including memoranda re promotion of private soldiers to rank of First Class Orderly, arms and accoutrements, compilation of reports, etc.

War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916

Papers of John James Young Campbell of Glasgow

Baird and Tatlock (London) Ltd. album of photographs of mobile laboratories manufactured and designed by them for use by the British and Allied Medical Services during the First World War, showing exteriors, interiors and equipment

Transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed in the Second World War, 1939-1945, with historical notes and statistics

Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC

Photogravure of a portrait by Dyce of Sir James McGrigor

Copy (or draft) of commission, 1657, from Charles II to John Knight, appointing him Surgeon General

Diplomas and commissions of David Middleton Greig

Papers of Surgeon William Lindsay of the 18th Foot

Papers and souvenirs of Arthur Martin Leake

Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny

Letter, 10th Sept 1855, to his parents from Assistant Surgeon T. Egerton Hale, describing the attack on the Redan at Sebastopol during the Crimean War, in the course of which Hale performed deeds of valour for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross when it was instituted in 1856

Letters and papers of Florence Nightingale

19 watercolour illustrations by Mervyn Smart (Grant?) of wounds sustained during the Allied advance on Germany "made for Brigadier Harold Edwards" (Consultant Surgeon, Allied Forces H.Q.)

Professor Edmund Parkes's photograph album of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley, with one photograph of his house in Bitterne

Sir Thomas Longmore's scrap-book of "Illustrations of appliances (and methods) for the transport of wounded soldiers", with extracts from The Ambulance Transport

Scrap-book by Captain G.H. Colt, RAMC, re development of the joined-pole trench-stretcher, including correspondence, 1915, with Captain D'Arcy Power and with Captain J. Ellis Milne, re the development of a stretcher for use in the trenches on the Western Front

Catalogue in 2 ms volumes of specimens in the Pathological Museum at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent, with details of case and of preparation of specimen

Catalogue in one ms volume of the library of the Army Medical School, Netley, in alphabetical order of author's name, with some subject entries

Necrological register of all cases admitted to general hospital, Portugal, in 1827, compiled by William M. Ford, Assistant Surgeon to H.M. Forces in Portugal

Volume of pathological (post-mortem) reports from the Army Medical School Hospital at Netley of cases admitted from other Forces hospitals

Necrological registers (reports) from General Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent

Photocopy of War Office minute, 1902, by Major-General Keogh to Lord Roberts, the Commander in Chief, recommending Major William Leishman for the post of Professor of Pathology in the Medical Staff College

Photocopies of pages from Punch magazine

Photocopy of Sir William Leishman's diary of leave trip to Kashmir, 1896

Group photograph (of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley?)

Watercolour sketches by Brevet Colonel Sir William Leishman of Plasmodium Kochi, and the manuscript draft of his paper on monkey malaria which they illustrate, read to the Pathological Society "probably at their meeting in January 1914"

Manuscript and typescript of a draft summary of simple rules respecting personal hygiene and preservation of health of the families of soldiers in India, by Colonel E.A. Parkes and Professor M.G. Maclean

Articles extracted from the British Journal of Surgery

Collection re Sir Charles Bell

Correspondence re the Parkes Memorial Prize and account of the Prize Fund (1881-1888)

File of correspondence, mainly about the Army Medical School

Instructions from the Ordnance to Henry Remmington, re his duties as surgeon's mate to the train of artillery in Germany

Plans of British army hospitals for the Boer War

Photographs of General Hospitals, ambulance trains and wagons, stretchers and dispensaries, during the Boer War

2 letters re medals awarded by the Chinese government to Staff Assistant Surgeon A. Moffitt, and the propriety of his accepting and wearing them

Miscellaneous Crimean War letters and papers

Letter from Thomas Phips(?) to Sir James McGrigor re deposit in the museum at Chatham of an idol from British Honduras

Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, etc.

Collection of Lieutenant Colonel J.B. Neal

Group photograph of an RAMC company (at Ventnor? or Netley?)

Bound typescript "History of the RAMC Prize Funds"

The works of Sir W. MacArthur

Typescript copy of "Medical Aspects of the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936", by Sir Aldo Castellani, Inspector-General of the Italian Army and Naval Medical Services

Publications from and re British campaigns in Salonica (Thessaloniki, Greece)

"The history of sweat and prickly heat, 19th-20th Century", by E.T. Renbourn. Reprinted from The Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Typescript report on tour of ALFSEA (Allied Land Forces, South East Asia) and India, Dec 1944-Jan 1945 by Major General D. T. Richardson, C.B., M.C., Director of Hygiene at the War Office

Memorable rolls, by Alistair G.D. Whyte. Reprinted from Aberdeen University Review (re Peterkin's, Johnston's and Drew's Rolls of Medical Officers 1660-1960)

Publications re army pathology, bound into a volume

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel H.D. Chalke, RAMC

'The Secocoeni War, 1878-79', by Captain C. Lacon Harvey, late Staff Officer of the Forces in Transvaal. Extracted from The United Services Magazine, Nov & Dec, 1879

Proposal to form a corps of volunteer female nurses for service in the Army Hospitals in the field, with suggestions as to the incorporation of the nursing profession, by Surgeon-Major G.J.H. Evatt of the Army Medical Staff

The medical department in the field, a commentary on Surgeon-General Longmore's Gunshot injuries, their history, features and treatment (1877) and the German army's Kriegs-Sanitäts Ordnung" (1878), printed for private circulation

The medico-military arrangements of the Japanese army in the field, by Surgeon-General W. Taylor, Principal Meical Officer, South-Eastern District

'On the prevalence of certain zymotic diseases in the army in 1887', by Sir Thomas Crawford, being the inaugural address delivered before the Epidemiological Society of London, session 1889-90

'Field-Marshal Count Radetzky de Radetz (1766-1858), Knight of the Golden Fleece and of the Maria-Theresia Order', by Lieutenant Colonel T.V. Humphreys. Reprinted from the Journal of the 1st the Queens Dragoon Guards

'Dr James Barry, controversial South African medical figure: a re-evaluation of his life and sex', by Professor P.R. Kirby. Extracted from the South African Medical Journal, 25 April 1970

Colonel Richard Jennings's photographs of British hospitals in Malta

'Dick Whittington, A Pantomime' written and produced by members of the 85th Field Ambulance (3rd London), as performed in Salonika on Christmas Night, 1915

'The military operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842, with a journal of imprisonment in Afghanistan', by Lieutenant Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery, late Deputy Commissary of Ordnance at Cabul (Kabul)

'Red Devils: a parachute field ambulance in Normandy' (6 June-6 Sept 1944),  typescript account by members of 224 Parachute Field Ambulance

Copies of reports by medical officers of 1 Airborne Division on Operation Market (Arnhem landings) and their subsequent experiences, 17 Sept 1944-8 May 1945

Printed editions of despatches of Field Marshal Sir John French, produced by The Graphic

The history of the Fourteenth General Hospital, RAMC, 1939-1945

Typescript 'The War diary of:- 19464 Corporal C. Chamberlain and the 9th Field Ambulance, 1914'

Corporal C. Chamberlain's album of photographs of Summerdown Camp, Eastbourne (c.1916); action and corpses in the (Boer) War in South Africa (c.1900); and scenes and groups in Sierra Leone and elsewhere in West Africa

Crimean War diary of Surgeon Major William Menzies Calder, 1 July 1855 - 15 March 1856, starting in Scutari Barracks, moving to the camp before Sebastopol on 28 July 1855

Surgeon Major General Alfred Tippetts's memoirs of his experiences in the army medical services in the Crimean War, April-Nov 1854, including transcripts of some of his letters

Photocopy of typed transcript of "A short history of deseases common to His Majesties own Royale Regiment of Horse Guards, commonly called the Blews, when abroad", 1746, also known as "Dr. Buchannan's Journal"

Typescript of "I married a soldier" by Dorothy V. Medhurst Cook, wife of Major C. Thomas Medhurst Cook, RAMC

Letter from General Sir Geoffrey Baker to Lieutenant General Sir Norman Talbot, Director General Army Medical Services, re Operation Shoveller in Jordan

Reprints and photocopies of articles in Medical History

Modern bullet wounds and modern treatment, with special regard to long bones and joints, field appliances and first aid, by Major F. Smith, DSO, RAMC

History Today, February 1971, containing article by Richard Blanco entitled "Sir James McGrigor and the Army Medical Corps"

6 booklets by Alexander Allan Cormack

Typescript of "The English military ambulance 1870 (the first field ambulance?)", by Norman MacLean, for publication in British Army Review

Album of photographs of visits to the British Military Hospital, Fayid, (Egypt), mainly by the Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Album of photographic copies of cartoons by Rifleman Hayes, batman to the Church of England padre to the No. 6 General Hospital at Qassassin, Egypt, with a photograph of the officers' mess hut at the hospital, for which the cartoons were drawn in 1941 and 1942

Album of photographs of "the RAMC at work and play" in Cairo

Album of photographs of the King George V Military Hospital, Stamford Street, London, First World War

Records of the inspection tour of Southern Line of Communication, Burma Boundary Commission, by Brigadier C.C. Foss, Commander, Burma (1) District, and Lieutenant Colonel A.G. Wells, RAMC, Feb-March 1936

Colonel Richard Jennings's album of photographs of No. 6 General Hospital at Naauwspoort(?), South Africa, during the Boer War

Album of photographs taken by Lieutenant Power, RAMC, of a route march from Deesa to Poona (Pune), India

Album of photographs, compiled by Sergeant Ben Hannan of 32 Stationary Hospital, Klerksdorp, South Africa, showing scenes and people during the Boer War

Visitors book from British Military Hospital, Terendak, Malaya

Album of publicity photographs by Thornycroft of Southampton showing the Empire Orwell (formerly the German Scharnhorst), Britain's first post-war troopship

Register of deserters, No. 1. Company, RAMC, Aldershot

Records of two RAMC units during the First World War

Miscellaneous obituaries, photographs and other memorabilia

Album of photographs of 34 (1/1 West Lancashire) Casualty Clearing Hospital, RAMC Territorial Force, on the Western Front

History of 217 Field Ambulance, diary/scrapbook of Lieutenant Colonel R.A. Anderson, RAMC, the unit's first commanding officer

Loose-leaf binder of plans and photographs of the Army Medical College, Medical College Hospital, Charity Hospital and Garrison Hospital, Tokyo, presented to Major Craig by Lieutenant General Geichi Ichiki, Commandant of the Army Medical College of the Imperial Japanese Army

Volume of pressed plants entitled "Fifty specimens of the parts of fructification of plants, exhibiting their essential generic characters, prepared in the autumn of 1824 by John Kinnis, M.D."

Second Thoughts, the unit magazine of No. 2 General Hospital in Italy. June & Sept 1944, March & June 1945 (4 issues)

Visitor Books of Military Hospitals and Album of photographs of Army Medical Staff mess, Hong Kong.

3 albums of photographs of warrant officers and sergeants of the Army Hospital Corps and the Medical Staff Corps

Photograph collection of Lieutenant Colonel G.J.S. Archer, RAMC

First World War diaries and papers of Captain Henry Wynyard Kaye, RAMC

Sanitary strategies, 1939-45 War: reports and graphs re climate, geography, medical services and diseases in areas in which Allied troops were preparing to fight

24 Photographs of a Mobile Hygiene Laboratory, exterior and interior

Photocopies of medical reports, certificates, etc., 1863, recommending the removal of Captain J. Rawlins of the 48th Regiment, to England for treatment of diarrhoea and haemorrhoids incurred in India

Short history of the Indian Army, by Lieutenant Colonel B.N. Majumdar

Tribute by James A. Ross, Hon. Consultant in Surgery to the Army in Scotland, to Colonel Frank Holmes, O.B.E. (d.1971), Commanding Officer of No. 58 General Hospital in the desert campaigns of 1941-1943

Typescript catalogue of the diaries, scrap-books and papers of St. John Buxton, a temporary RAMC officer in the First World War and consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the army in the Second World War, deposited in Royal College of Surgeons library

"Henry Marshall (1775-1851) and the health of the British Army" by Richard L. Blanco

"Caesarean Section" by A. Dickson Wright

"Chlorodyne Browne", by J.P. Entract (Biographical sketch of Dr John Collis Browne, inventor of chlorodyne)

Extracts and statistics from "Wartime Sketches No. 1: Crimea 1854/5" (by Charles Robert Shervington or Assistant Surgeon Ralph Scott of 46th Foot) re mortality among troops of the 46th Foot in the Crimea during the winter of 1854-1855

Extracts from a letter to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., on Schools of Instruction for military and naval surgeons, by Sir George Ballingall, Regius Professor of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh

Newspaper cutting from The Press and Journal, Aberdeen, 16 December 1970, re the history of the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society

"Sir Alexander Ogston", by Dr. Ian A. Porter, reprint of a paper read before the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine

Sir William Leishman's mounted drawings of spirochaeta recurrentis (relapsing fever organism) from citrated mouse blood (prepared for publication in The Lancet)

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