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1 Extracts from a journal re voyage to the East Indies from England, with impressions of India, 1817-1818, by an Assistant Surgeon in the East India Company, 1817-1818
2 Two articles extracted from The Year Book, 1839: Articles re Sir Hans Sloane and Phebe Hassel, a female soldier.
3 Two excerpts from Curiosities of War by Thomas Carter, 1859: Woman in battle re Christiana Davis, a female soldier, with notes re Phebe Hassel and other fighting women, 1859; Also Remarkable wounds and hairbreadth `scapes, 1859
4 Three extracts from Chambers' Journal, 1883: Strange, but true and "The humours of examinations"; Consumption: the soothing influence of hot water; Re-interment of William Harvey.
5 The Army Medical Staff and Corps, and their work, by Robert MacKray. Extracted from Pearson's Magazine, 1897
6 Cutting from the Daily Telegraph of an article by Rudyard Kipling entitled "The Fringes of the Fleet: Patrols", 1915
7 The 3rd Division, by Major-General A. Haldane. (Compiled from Professor Oman's Wellington's Army), Jan 1916
8 Photograph of "Dr. Fayrer's House, Lucknow, 1857"
9 Cuttings from newspapers and magazines, mounted on paper, 1885-1961; Includes: Reunion of 26th and 2nd and 3rd (Wessex) Field Ambulances from the First World War 1961; Photograph of "James MacNaughton, RAMC, Quatana, 1945"; Drawing and photograph of dogs used to succour casualties, 1901; Map of lines of communication for casualties returning to England from a European war, 1885; Drawing of a cycle ambulance used in the German army, 1898; photograph of an electric ambulance car, 1907

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