General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Thrombolysis", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL on 28 January 2003. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. Unlike most other seminars, the transcript of this seminar was not published. However an edited and annotated extract from the seminar did appear as Appendix 3 in Volume 23 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Renolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Brian Pentecost), organisers of the meeting (Professor Gustav Born and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of Volume 23 of the Witness Seminar series (L.A. Renolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts and marketing leaflets for the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting, reproduction permissions and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Documents include:

A series of timelines distributed at the seminar showing the history of research trials, the dates of guidelines and reviews, and licensing dates. Also a typed sheet which was distributed titled, "First Use and Development of Thrombolysis on Case Fatality Post Myocardial Infarction".