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Underwood, Edgar Ashworth (1899-1980)

Writings, lectures and articles

William Harvey

Lavoisier paper for RSM. Correspondence and notes

Draft 'The Grecian Bowl'

Röntgen lecture at RSM: correspondence and notes

Transcript of Marcus Beck letters to Lord Lister, Nov 1869-May 1862, and Underwood lecture on subject to RSM

The history of cholera in GB' and 'The cholera epidemic in Exeter', copies of articles plus notes, abstracts and correspondence

Field workers in the English public health movement': lectures plus copy of article, notes etc. , 1948

Plague: RSM lecture notes

"The Centenary of Anaesthesia 1846-1946". Exhibition catalogue (unpublished?) and bibliography

Notes on naval medicine (for Thomas Vicary lecture, 1947)

Notes on music and medicine (for Garrison Fielding lecture, 1947)

UCL lectures 1940's & 1950's plus other misc notes by subject A-Z.

Lecture: "The health of children a century ago"

Lecture: "How not to make a diagnosis": notes on Walter Pagel's centenary lecture on Julius Pagel and the medical historians of the 19th century, RSM, 1952

"Charles Singer, A biograhical note" (for vol 1, Science, Medicine and History)

Henry Sigerist: biographical and bibliographical notes

Lecture: "Science and Medicine 1500-1700: Inferences and Interrelations"

Miscellaneous notes: biographical notes on medical officers of health; history of public health; Captain James Cook; International Congress in Spain

Padua Theatre: notes and drafts plus photographs (published in Annals of Science 1963)

Toast to Lord Todd, Glasgow University Club dinner

Translation of Kurt Pollak's The Healers (lacking first page of Pollak's introduction): with correspondence and notes.

"Dumfries and the early history of surgical anaesthesia": typescript (for Annals of Science)

"Boerhaave after three hundred years": typescript and notes (for British Medical Journal)

"The relations between British and Italian medicine 1650-1800": typescript and notes

"The relations between British and German medicine, 1650-1800": notes, draft and correspondence (for German publication)

"The historical background to medical ethics" (John Ash Lecture): notes, MSS and correspondence

"Medicine in biblical times", "Public health in biblical times" and "Public health in biblical times": notes and typescript, possibly for Encyclopaedia Britannica

British Society for the History of Science: correspondence re obituary of Francis Butler, 1971 and typescript "The foundation of the British Society for the History of Science"

Fitzpatrick Lecture on Haematology: typescript, drafts and notes

University College London, Underwood's lecture notes on history of biology to 1650

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University College London, Underwood's lecture notes on history of biology to 1650

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