Winter, Hans Leo, later Howard Leslie Winter

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Papers (largely patient records) relating to Dr Winter's career as orthopaedic surgeon in Germany and England, 1920s-1930s.

Results from urine tests, 1920s

X-rays

Photographs of patients (3, b/w)

Copies from album of photographs of patients before and after treatment (b/w)

8 [small] boxes of glass negatives, containing patients and treatment

4 files of notes they contain more x-rays and also drawings of bones (in German)

Reprints

Volume of cuttings: current treatments, drugs and dosages, articles etc (mostly in English)

The majority of the papers are in German.

Please note that this archive is largely made up of patient data. When the archive is catalogued, the patient data will require closure for the lifetime of the data subjects in accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act..

1920s-1930s

Uncatalogued: 1 transfer box

Given to the library at Wellcome Collection by Mr Horace Winter in May 2000.

Hans Leo Winter, later Howard Leslie Winter, (c.1900-1999) trained as a phsyician in Frankfurt in 1925 and practised as an orthopaedic surgeon. He left Germany for Britain in the ?1930s as a refugee from the Nazi regime, subsequently practising in the Surgical Department of the London Jewish Hospital and serving as Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London (LRCP), the Royal College of Surgeons (LRCS) and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (LRFPS).

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