[Box of offprints by F.N.L. Poynter].

[1947-1973]

1 box ; 32 x 24 cm

F.N.L. Poynter was a former Director of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library.

Harveian orations, 1656-1947 : a study in tradition. - First English medical journal. - William Walwyn, "Health's student". Elizabethan surgeon. - John Chapman (1821-1894) : publisher, physician, and medical reformer. Plan for the establishment of combined national depositories and exchange centres for medical periodicals. - Wellcome Historical Medical Library (from the winter ed. of the "Book Collector") - Wellcome Historical Medical Library (from Indian journal of the history of medicine) - Unnoticed contemporary English poem in praise of Harvey and its author, John Collop, M.D. - Medicine and the historian : the Fielding H. Garrison lecture. - Current thought on Harvey. - William Harvey's last will and testament : the official probate copy ... - Unique copy of George Armstrong's printed proposals for establishing the Dispensary for Sick Children, 1769. - Linnaeus, naturalist and doctor, 1707-78. - Gray's Anatomy : the first hundred years. - Cambridge quatercentenary : Gonville and Caius College. - Centenary of the General Medical Council. - Centenary of the Darwin-Wallace paper on natural selection. - Willan's "Cutaneous diseases." - New light on the reception of William Beaumont's discovery in England. - Distribution of scientific publications in under-developed countries. - Museums and the Library of the Wellcome Trust. - Harvey's doctrine in Italy : Argoli (1644) and Bonaccorsi (1647) on the circulation of the blood. - William Harvey's debate with Caspar Hofmann on the circulation of the blood : new documentary evidence. - John Donne and William Harvey. - Education and the General Medical Council. - Editio princeps of Volmar's "Steinbuch." - Alexander Gordon : a Scottish forerunner of Semmelweis. - Seventeenth-century London plague document in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. - Gervase Markham. - Robert Talbor, Charles II, and cinchona : a contemporary document. - Andreas Vesalius of Brussels (1514-1564) : a brief survey of recent work. - Value of medical history in both education and research. - Wellcome Historical Museum und Wellcome-Bibliothek London. - Nicolaus Steno and the Royal Society of London. - British Medical Societies 1868-1968. - Rysbrack's bust of Robert Boyle. - Italian doctors and the Royal Society. - History of Medicine in Britain. - Obituary : Charles Donald O'Malley, 1 April 1907-7 April 1970. - Sydenham's influence abroad.