Turner, Walter Pickett ( -1934)

Collection of notebooks containing lectures and observations on Tuberculosis: with other notes on medical and scientific subjects, drafts of letters, etc. Author's holograph MSS.

1887-c. 1910

17 volumes 17 vols. v.s. Items are in paper covers, a few are unbound. Mostly written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1934.

The author obtained his M.D. at Durham University in 1895, and was Assistant Medical Officer at Chatham Lunatic Asylum. He practised at Leytonstone 1895-1902, and later at Balham. His name is not found in the Register after 1933. His theories on tuberculosis received a derogatory notice in the British Medical Journal 1907, i, p. 383.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).