Robb-Smith, Alaistair Hamish Tearloch (1908-2000)

Robb-Smith, Alaistair Hamish Tearloch, 1908-2000

Date:: 1927-1994

Reference:: GC/182

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Robb-Smith, Alaistair Hamish Tearloch (1908-2000)GC/182

About this work

Description

Annual reports and case note abstracts from the Oxford Lymph Node Registry at the Radcliffe Infirmary, 1936-1947; papers re consultancy visits abroad and membership of expert committees; publications; photographs; correspondence and related papers, 1980-1982, on medical history

Publication/Creation

1927-1994

Physical description

4 boxes

Contributors

Robb-Smith, Alaistair Hamish Tearloch, 1908-2000

Arrangement

1 Personalia

2 Oxford Lymph Node Registry, Radcliffe Infirmary: annual reports, case note abstracts 1936-1947

3 Consultancy visits abroad and expert committees: reports and correspondence, 1945-1994

4 Publications, 1927-1994

5 Photographs and portrait sketches, 1947-1980

6 Correspondence with Sir William Paton and related papers on medical history, 1980-1982

Acquisition note

Accession 596 was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Dr Robb-Smith in October 1995. Accession 853 was acquired by purchase in September 1998.

Biographical note

Robb-Smith gained his MD at London University in 1936, and after posts in pathology departments in Freiburg, Madrid and St Bartholomews, was appointed as the Nuffield Reader in Pathology and Assistant Director of Pathology at the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1937. Between 1941 and 1975 he was the Director of Pathology at the Radcliffe. His major work was on lymph node disorders and blood diseases. He also wrote on medical history, especially on Osler's contribution to medicine. He served on numerous expert committees, many dealing with the classification of diseases and causes of death.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection:

See collections PP/RGM and PP/WDP. Three books (The Enigma of Coronary Heart Disease, Lloyd Luke Ltd, London, 1967; A Short History of the Radcliffe Infirmary, The Church Army Press, Oxford, 1970; Lymph Node Biopsy, with CR Taylor, Miller Hayden, London, 1981) were transferred to the collections of published material within the Wellcome Library.

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