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A "malingerer's guide" to how to appear ill, disguised as a book of matches, one of the many distributed among British troops in Italy towards the end of the Second World War

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

The history of the Royal Army Medical College by Colonel J.B. Neal, RAMC

Diaries and notebooks of Surgeon Major Thomas Wood

The contribution of war to the advancement of surgery by Honorary Colonel Harold C. Edwards (The Blackham Lecture, 1955, reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene Jan 1956)

Bound transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed during the Second World War, 1939-1945, with appendix re other RAMC memorials in Westminster Abbey

The Golden Jubilee Scrap-book of the Royal Army Medical Corps, bound with "The story of the RAMC" by Major General R. E. Barnsley, 1964

Doctor's commonplace book of notes re diseases and wounds, mainly copied from seventeenth and eighteenth Century books and from eighteenth Century periodicals

2 letters re the improvement in health of the British Army in India

Collection of cuttings from newspapers and magazines, and special editions of magazines, re the war in South Africa, many focusing on hospital arrangements and the work of the RAMC

Commemorative oration by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of the Royal Army Medical Corps

Instructions for the use of calf lymph supplied by the Army Vaccine Institute

General ground plan of Arenkioi Hospital (Erenköy, now Intepe, Turkey), with, inset, a plan of the entrance of the Dardanelles, showing the position of the hospital, and two sections. Scale 1":200'

Extravagantly illustrated diplomas for service with the RAMC in the First World War

Papers of Sir Matthew Fell (1872-1959)

Papers of Sir Anthony Bowlby, consulting surgeon to the British Armies in France during the First World War

Research and reminiscences: Uganda 1908-1910 by Colonel H.R. Bateman, late RAMC

On tradition (in Surgery), the Cavendish Lecture, 1958, by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor

Message of farewell from his colleagues to James Forbes, Inspector General of Army Hospitals, Superintendent General of Vaccination and Principal Civil Medical Officer, Ceylon

Royal Army Medical Corps drills and exercises (Section 2 of the RAMC manual)

Medical case book of Leith Fort, Edinburgh Castle

Bound photocopies of papers from the Public Record Office re the life and career of James Barry (d. 1865), Inspector General of Military Hospitals, including an account (in own hand?) of their career

Ms volume of hospital reports and medical summaries from British Army medical staff in Malta, Gozo and the Ionian Islands

Diaries of Corporal R. Dyer, 19th Bearer Company, RAMC, and later 15th Bearer Company, RAMC, in South Africa during the Boer War

The surgery of transportation by Lieutenant Colonel J.P. Mitchell, RAMC

6 issues of the Naval and Military Gazette and East India and Colonial Chronicle (weekly), 15 Jan-19 Feb 1853

Programme of Centenary celebrations held at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, 26th October 1960

Papers and souvenirs of Major General Sir Maurice Holt, RAMC

Typescript letter from the private secretary to H.M. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, to Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Drummond re appointment of Colonel John Watts as Joint Professor of Military Surgery of the RAM College and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and re Sir Alexander Drummond's tours to strengthen ties between the RAM College and various bodies overseas

Privately printed edition of the diary, 12 Aug-25 Oct 1914, of Hugh John Sladen Shields, Medical Officer of the Irish Guards, killed in action on the Western Front on 26th Oct 1914

Papers of Major W.J. Webster, serving with 72nd Field Ambulance in the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders

Visitors book of the Director General, Army Medical Services

Diplomas and commissions of Brigade Surgeon Edward Augustus George Louis Lundy

Certificates of Captain John Smith McCombe, RAMC

Royal Humane Society testimonial to Henry Brasier Creagh, staff paymaster, R.N.

Memoirs and papers of William Daverell Cattell, Assistant Surgeon, 5th Dragoon Guards, during the Crimean War, and later Deputy Surgeon General

Papers of Assistant Surgeon David Greig

Six lithographs by Sidney D. Moss of scenes from the Battle of Loos

Letter from Surgeon (Isaac) James to his brother, Richard James, Esq., of Dumbleton, Worcestershire, re the medical situation after the Battle of Waterloo

Letter from Florence Nightingale to Dr. Farr, organising support for the formation of an Army Medical School

Letter from Marquis Wellington (later 1st Duke of Wellington) to Colonel Torrens re promotions, including promotion of medical officers

Papers of Sir John Hall

Typescript copies of letters (1855-1857) to his family from Surgeon Major Francis Reynolds, attached to the Royal Artillery in the Crimean War, and later serving in Canada, and of a letter (1887) informing Reynold's sister of his death

Manual of exercises for stretcher-bearers and bearer companies

Colonel Fred Smith's scrap-book of diplomas, testimonials, photographs and other souvenirs

Notes and reports re administration of the Royal Army Medical College during the Second World War, provided by Colonel F.S. Irvine for a medical history of the war

File of correspondence, etc., re application by the Royal Army Medical College to the University of Cambridge for recognition as a teaching institution

File of correspondence, etc., re application by the Royal Army Medical College to the University of London for recognition as a teaching institution, with extracts from (University of London) Senate Minutes, 1932, re withdrawal of the status

Second World War papers of Major General Sir Percy Tomlinson, RAMC

Nominations for awards of the Distinguished Conduct Medal

Copies of papers of and about Major George Tinling, Royal Hospital Corps

Ms return of casualties in H.M. Forces employed in the Presidency of Bombay, India, March 1826-Dec 1831, and return of medical statistics for H.M. Regiments at the different stations under the Presidency of Bombay, March 1826-Dec 1831

The evolution of anatomy and surgery under the Tudors by W.S.C. Copeman

Some Aspects of the Life and Times of Sir Hans Sloane by W.W.D. Thomson Professor of Medicine, Queens University, Belfast

Appointments and commissions of army medical officers

Certificate of award of Croix de Guerre to Private William Smith, 46th Field Ambulance, RAMC, for actions during the First World War

Ms memoirs of George Swindell, a merchant seaman who joined the RAMC on the outbreak of the First World War, telling of his day-to-day business with the 77th Field Ambulance on the Western Front

Two papers by Major General W.R.M. Drew, Commandant, R.A.M. College

Sir Thomas Longmore's collection of pamphlets bound into 9 volumes on subjects including casualty evacuation, antisepsis, the Crimean War and the Geneva Convention

Standing orders for the Royal Army Medical Corps (revised edition)

Three articles

Manual of instructions for non-commissioned officers and men of the Army Hospital Corps

Typed transcripts of and extracts from letters (1854-1855) from the Crimean War

Boer War diary and photographs of Staff Sergeant J.R. Gibbons, RAMC

Papers of Brigadier Julian Taylor, consulting surgeon, Malaya Command (in Changi Prisoner of War camp, Singapore, 1942-45)

The Medical Times and Gazette

"A Modest Centenarian: some reflections on the origins of the Royal Herbert Hospital": article for the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps by 2nd Lieutenant Peter Godden-Kent, RAMC

Report to the... Secretary of State for War, descriptive of the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich by Douglas Galton, (late Captain, Royal Engineers), Assistant Under Secretary for War

Medicine's debt to the army and "The challenge of tropical medicine", by Major General W.R.M. Drew, late RAMC

Sir Charles Burtchaell's collection of reports, etc., re medical services

The Red Cross as a medical and pharmaceutical symbol before and after the Geneva Convention by Dr. T.D. Whittet

Notes from Dr. McCartney's lectures re amputations performed after the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) and during the Napoleonic Wars, including those by Sir Charles Bell after Waterloo (1815)

Diplomas of Surgeon General Francis Charles Annesley

Article and address

Captain J.P. Lynch's accounts of his experiences in the First World War

Typescript précis of letters, 1855-1883, from the Florence Nightingale Collection in the Department of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, mainly letters from Nightingale to Surgeon General Thomas Alexander, re the Commission enquiring into the medical organisation of the Crimean War, the design of the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, the organisation of Fort Pitt Military Hospital, and diets for Field Hospitals

Africana notes and news, Vol. 16, No. 6, containing an article entitled "The Centenary of the death of James Barry, M.D., Inspector General of Hospitals (1795-1865): a re-examination of the facts relating to his physical condition", by Professor P.R. Kirby

Papers of David Middleton Greig, civil surgeon with the British Forces in South Africa, during the Boer War

Papers of Surgeon General George Bent, RAMC

Diary of Lieutenant F.J. Palmer, RAMC, in South Africa during the Boer War, 17 March-32nd Oct (sic) 1900

Commissions

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel William Dick

Lieutenant Colonel William Dick's album of newspaper cuttings, including material re the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, impressions of a journey to Japan, theatrical productions in which Mrs. Dick took part, feats for which the Victoria Cross was awarded, and obituaries

Typed transcripts of letters of reminiscence about the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, sent to Colonel J.F.D. Murphy, in response to his letter to the Daily Telegraph about the proposed demolition of the hospital

Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Neil Cantlie

Papers of Major General Sir Ernest Cowell

Album of press cuttings re medical services during the Boer War, compiled by the General Press Cutting Association at the direction of Lieutenant Colonel G. W. Macpherson, War Office

Medical-topographical report on Wei-Hai-Wei (Weihai, Shandong Province, China, leased to the British Government), by Major William Henderson Starr, RAMC, annotated (by the author), including re the capture of Weihai by Japanese forces (in the 1930s)

Photocopy of letter (1885) from Private R.F. Cook to his wife re amputation of his foot after a skirmish during the march to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum

Catalogue of the Canadian Forces Medical Services Museum

Second World War papers of Colonel Robert G. Atkins, RAMC

A "malingerer's guide" to how to appear ill, disguised as a book of matches, one of the many distributed among British troops in Italy towards the end of the Second World War

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