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Leaflet about the service offered by general practitioners, dentists and pharmacies (especially the one where the leaflet was distributed).

1 folded sheet (6 pages) : color illustrations ; 11 cm

Modern musketeers : for your constant protection : your doctor ... your dentist ... your druggist ... / Abbott Laboratories.

Two-part series in which Doctor Margaret McCartney tells the hisstory of general practice in the UK.
Part one of two. Dr Martin Edwards and Anne Digby discuss the prominence of the 18th century surgeon-apothecary, and their importance in the development of modern medical practice. Dr Julian Tudor Hart describes military surgery during the Napoleonic wars. Digby describes the early qualification procedures for medical practitioners, and discusses the emergence of official medical body registration. The panel discuss the social caché given to doctors in the 19th century, represented in the painting The Doctor by Sir Luke Fildes. Digby describes the Golden Age of the medical profession, and opportunities for women at this time. She moves on to talk about the impact of the National Health Insurance Act (1911), and the nationalisation of health practices. Dr Pat Whatley explains the state of medical services in the Highlands up until the 20th century, whilst Annie Tindley describes Dr Lachlan Grants impact on these services in various remote communities. Tindley explains the Dewar Report (1912). A clip is played from the BBC sound archives introducing the worlds first air ambulance service (1934). McCartney describes the social impact of the television and radio series Dr. Finlays Casebook, which was based on A. J. Cronins novella Country Doctor. Some brief clips of the series are played. Historian Irene Morgan explains the emergence of the Medical Aid Society in the 1920s. Paediatrician and Medical Officer of Health Dr Ewan Ross recounts his time helping his father with local medical duties as a youth. McCartney talks about the emergence of the WWII Emergency Medical Service, and clips are played of Sir William Beveridge reading from The Beveridge Report (1942). Clips are played of Charles Hill debating the efficacy of the newly proposed National Health Service (1948). Biographer and MP Nick Thomas Symons explains the role Aneurin Bevan had in rallying support for the NHS. Clips are played of Aneurin Bevan speaking about the NHS (1940s). Historian and retired GP Martin Edwards explains an influx in serious cases not previously brought to medical professionals attention prior to the formulation of the NHS. Historian Dr Graham Smith explains how GPs roles changed within hospitals during this time.

Farewell Doctor Finlay. 1/2.

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence, in alphabetical order.

Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries

One of a series of leaflets giving information about the work of the AIDS / HIV support service FACTS Health Co-ordination Centre at 23/25 Weston Park, Crouch End, North London.

AIDS ephemera : Support & centres. Box 2.

1 folded sheet (6 unnumbered pages) : black and white ; 21 x 28 cm folded to 21 x 10 cm

FACTS : training and education / FACTS Health Co-ordination Centre.

Factsheet (Alzheimer's Society)

Factsheet

How health and social care professionals can help / Alzheimer's Society.

Register of Dangerous Drugs Purchased and Supplied, kept by S Ruthven Mackay, MB, ChB, of York Road, Southend on Sea, in a preprinted volume: Dangerous Drugs Acts, 1920-1925, and consolidated regulations of 1937 supplied by C J Hewlett and Son Ltd, Charlotte St, London EC2. There is a summary of the regulations under the Dangerous Drugs Acts 1920-1934 inside the front cover.
Although the titlepage refers to this as Combined Register for recording Purchases and Supplies of Morphine, Diamorphine, Cocaine, Ergonine, &C., Medical Opium, Extracts and Tincture of Indian Hemp, Dihydrohyrdoxycodeinone (Eucodal), Dihyrdocodeinone (Dicodide) and Dihydromorphinone (Dilaudide) for the use of Retail Chemists, it appears to have been kept by a general practitioner who did at least some of his own dispensing.
Volume includes purchases of scheduled drugs by type, c. 1938-1957, and then a few from the early 1970s; and relatively few prescriptions supplied to patients (mostly just cross-referenced to an entry in the practice daybook), 1938-1940, and one in 1956.

S Ruthven Mackay: Register of Dangerous Drugs Purchased and Supplied

"The aims of this pamphlet are to encourage GPs to consider that they have a role to play in the management of drug use, to examine what this role should be and how it can best be put into practice."--From introduction.

52 pages : black and white illustrations ; 16 cm

Coping with drug misuse in general pactice / a personal view by Dr Jackie Chang ; drawings by Stephen Brown.

Fees for part-time medical services : guidance note / British Medical Association.

Memorandum book (32 ff.) listing items sold and prices realised at sale of the late Dr. Pollard's effects, 2-3 October 1878, signed by Joseph Smith, auctioneer. Medical items occur on ff. 2-3.

Dr. Pollard (d. c.1878) of Chorley, Lancashire

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Financial accounts of a general medical practice based in the Pennine village of Queensbury in Yorkshire.

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Modern musketeers : for your constant protection : your doctor ... your dentist ... your druggist ... / Abbott Laboratories.

Farewell Doctor Finlay. 1/2.

Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries

FACTS : training and education / FACTS Health Co-ordination Centre.

How health and social care professionals can help / Alzheimer's Society.

S Ruthven Mackay: Register of Dangerous Drugs Purchased and Supplied

Coping with drug misuse in general pactice / a personal view by Dr Jackie Chang ; drawings by Stephen Brown.

Fees for part-time medical services : guidance note / British Medical Association.

Dr. Pollard (d. c.1878) of Chorley, Lancashire

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How health and social care professionals can help / Alzheimer's Society.

S Ruthven Mackay: Register of Dangerous Drugs Purchased and Supplied

Coping with drug misuse in general pactice / a personal view by Dr Jackie Chang ; drawings by Stephen Brown.

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