Wilson, Anna Justina Augusta (1863-1949)

Pathology and Treatment of Diseases for S[wedish] R[emedial] E[xercises]. Notes of Lectures taken down by Susan H. Cannon. Typescripts, interleaved with a few holograph additions. Illustrated with anatomical and other drawings in pencil, some coloured in crayon. On the title-page is a holograph note by Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax [1874-1953]: he has also written the label on the spine 'Wilson, J. Syllabus of Lectures 1917-1919.' Produced in London.

1917-19

1 volume 2 ll. + 150 ff. + 2 ll. (last bl.) 4to. 25 × 20 cm. Original limp cloth bindings with tape ties.

Purchased from the Royal Society of Medicine, 1956 (acc.303950).

A. J. A. Wilson founded a School of Massage in Baker St., London, in 1919, later merged with the Swedish Institute in Cromwell Road, of which she became the Head. She was also consulting physician to the Physiotherapy Department of St. Mary's Hospital [cf. 'Lancet', 1949, ii, pp. 1112, 1113, 1206].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).