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Head, Sir Henry

Records of Head's work

Printed applications for the posts of assistant physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square (1896) and to the London Hospital

Records of Head's examination of pilgrims to the shrine of St Bernadette at Lourdes, France

Licences to perform experiments upon animals

Head's weekly schedule, stuck onto the back of a photograph of Head relaxing with family, stamped "1902"

Agreement to let consulting room at 143 Harley Street, London

Memorandum from Head re the constitution of an Academic Unit in Medicine at the London Hospital

Letter re Head's resignation from the post of teacher of elementary clinical medicine at the London Hospital

Photograph of Head with W H R Rivers, and 4 photographs of Head's right arm (during tests for return of nerve function

Notes and diagrams on E Lugaro's experiments on degeneration and regeneration of nerves

Ms thesis on medullation of the spinal and peripheral processes of the posterior root ganglion cells

Prescription record of one of Head's patients, suffering from anterior poliomyelitis

Text of the introductory lecture on the afferent nervous system, given to students at the University of London

Poster for Head's lecture on diagnostic value of sensory changes in diseases of the nervous system

Ms page of a lecture on nervous diseases of a syphilitic origin

Notes and correspondence re Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)'s ideas on "Protopathic and epicritic" in connexion with music

Diagram of the heart and blood vessels

Newspaper cuttings, reviews and other reports about Head and his work

Volume of post mortem reports on herpes zoster patients

Volume of post mortem reports on herpes zoster patients

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