Handley, William Sampson

Student notebook Guy's Hospital, 1894, with notes on surgical techniques and diagnosis,and notes on cases seen at the Middlesex and Samaritan Hospitals, 1902-1912, with correspondence inserted.

1894-1938

2 boxes Paper

These volumes were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the library at Wellcome Collection) in September 1993 from the Modern Medicine Department of the Wellcome Institute Library, to which they had been given in August 1993 by Mrs Rosemary Handley, the widow of Handley's son, Richard Sampson Handley

W Sampson Handley trained at Guy's Hospital, and graduated MB, BS, in 1895. After a period in general practice, his first post as a surgeon was at the Samaritan Hospital in 1900. In 1904 he won a research scholarship at the Middlesex Hospital, investigating the mode of spread of cancer. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Middlesex in 1906, and pursued his researches in the Cancer Wing there while becoming a skilled abdominal surgeon.

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