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Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Sir Patrick Manson, GCMG, FRS, MD (1844-1922)

The Seamen's Hospital and the London School of Tropical Medicine

Extracts from the minutes of the Board of Management of the Seamen's Hospital, 13 May 1892, re selection of a physician

'An introductory address on the necessity for special education in tropical medicine', delivered at St George's Hospital. Reprinted from <i>The Lancet,</i>

Correspondence and cuttings re proposals for the foundation of a school of tropical medicine, including disputes between PM and the visiting physicians of the Seamen's Hospital

Extracts from minutes, Oct 1898 and March 1899, of the Committee of Management [of the Seamen's Hospital] re organisation and staffing of the Tropical School

Register of cases at the Seamen's Hospital, 1900 [Used as a scrapbook by G C Low; contains reprints of his and others' papers, 1899-1930]

'A school of tropical medicine', reprint of PM's paper in the <i>Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute,</i>

To PM re application by Sir Francis Lovell for post at the Tropical School, 1901 (2 letters)

Correspondence re controversy over the role of the London School of Tropical Medicine in the Royal Society's 1902 expedition to Uganda to investigate the causes of sleeping sickness

Souvenir cartoon by Engel Terzi of the visit to the London School by the Institut de Medicine Coloniale de Paris

Printed report of the proceedings on the occasion of of Professor W Osler delivering an address on 'The nation and the tropics'

Text of a speech by PM to a general meeting of supporters of the London School of Tropical Medicine about financial support

Colonel A Alcock to Philip Manson-Bahr (3 letters)

Newspaper cuttings speculating on the future of the London School of Tropical Medicine

Texts of speeches, including those on the opening of the Keppel Street building, 1929, and that by Andrew Balfour in 1919, recounting history of and anecdotes re the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Photographs of the hospital and of laboratories of the school

Notes and reprint re the history of the hospital and the school

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Notes and reprint re the history of the hospital and the school

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