Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: 1995 Accessions

Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

• Elizabethan medical manual, containing an English translation of part of John of Ardernes treatise on fistula, medical recipes and prescriptions, lists of herbs c1575 (MS 7117)
• Lady Ann Fanshawe (1625-1680), wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe: recipe book compiled from 1651 (MS 7113)
• Medical treatises based on the practice of Charles Barbeyrac (1629-1699), physician of Montpellier 17th cent (MS 7126)
• French manual of chiromancy 17th cent (MS 7136)
• English medical and culinary recipe book early 18th cent (MS 7124)
• John Hunter (1728-1793): notes on the principles of surgery and on venereal diseases taken from his lectures late 18th cent (ACC 349837)
• Unnamed surgeon of William Miles Heics: journal, London-India-London 1819-21 (MS 7114)
• Joshua Brookes (1766-1831): notes from lectures on osteology taken by Edward Morton 1821 (MS 7110)
• Robert Morrison (1782-1834), missionary in China: memoir of his wife 1824 (MS 7127)
• Frederick Knight Hunt (1814-1854), surgeon and journalist, and his son Frederick Everard Hunt (1840-1900), surgeon: certificates and papers 1839-1900 (MSS 7128-7129)
• Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), personal physician to Lady Hester Stanhope: Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (London, 1846) vol III, pt 2, extensively annotated by the author (MS 7116)
• William Stott Maude (fl1832-65), general practitioner of Elland, Yorks: comonplace book c1849-65 (MS 7115)
• Unnamed Leeds apothecary: cash and recipe book mid 19th cent (MS 7111)
• Physician to Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh: diary of the dukes illness 1889 (MS 7105)
• Fielding Hudson Garrison (1870-1935), American medical historian: letters to Paul Hoeber, publisher 1918-31 (MS 7135)