Wilson, Albert (1854-1928)

Notebooks (MSS.5011-5025), many of them dating from Wilson's period as a student; notes on a personality disorder (MS.5026); notes on surgical lectures (MSS.5356-5360); and photographs of the brain (MS.5361).

1873-1912

20 volumes and 20 files

Presented by Miss B. Wilson, 1929, and an unrecorded donor in 1950.

The author obtained his M.D. at Edinburgh in 1881, and in 1890 was appointed physician to the Essex County Asylum, Walthamstow. He was interested in criminal psychology, and wrote two books on the subject: Unfinished Man in 1910, and Education, Personality and Crime in 1918. For further biograpical information see the B.M.J., 1928, ii, p. 551.

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) and Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).