DEP/BOY/1/7 | Joint Scientific Meeting Penang Medical Practitioners' Society, Royal College of Physicians of... | From the collection of David Boyd. Programme. | Aug 1988 |
DEP/BOY/1/8 | Penang Medical Practitioners' Society Newsletter | From the collection of David Boyd.Contains photographs of Dr Boyd. | Sep 1988 |
DEP/CRW/3/1/6 | F - correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by... | Letters from James Farquhar enclosing 'College Connections Overseas'; Joan Ferguson, college librarian; T Ferguson; Lady Patricia Fisher; C Elaine Field enclosing 'The Contribution and Influence of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and its Fellows on Medical Trainees in Malaysia Singapore [British Malaysia] [China] and Hong Kong'; Professor John Forfar enclosing 'The Influence of the College in Singapore and Malaysia'; George Forwell, Scottish Home and Health Department; Dr Alfred White Franklin; and M Fransiszyn, Osler Library, McGill University [Canada]. | 10 Jun 1971-25 Feb 1974 |
DEP/CRW/3/1/12 | Mc, M - correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by... | Letters from Alexander MacFie; Agnes R MacGregor; James McHarg; Reverend William Macintyre; Norman MacKay; A Maclennan, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps; Dr A T MacQueen, University of Dundee; George McRobert; Hugh Maingay; Professor Alexander Mair; Magnus Magnusson; Major General J M Matheson; Dr Henry Matthew; Joyce M Matthew; Eric C Mekie; Professor Ross Mitchell, University of Aberdeen; George Montgomery, Malaysia; Stuart Morrison; Reverend Robert Murray; William Murray; and John Myers, South-Eastern Regional Hospital Board. | 5 Jul 1971-2 Feb 1975 |
DEP/GRW/1/1 | Painting of patient with pellagra at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, by Robert John Grove-White | The painting shows the early eruption of pellagra erythema. Uncaptioned. | 1944 |
DEP/GRW/1/2 | Painting of patient with pellagra at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, by Robert John Grove-White | The painting shows the same patient as in GRW/1/1 with the erythema less well defined. The caption reads 'Pellagra skin lesions on leg - Sime Road Camp'. | 1944 |
DEP/GRW/1/3 | Painting of patient with pellagra at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, by Robert John Grove-White | The painting shows a more advance eruption on the foot of an elderly man. The caption reads 'Pellagrous erythema of foot with blistering'. | 1944 |
DEP/GRW/1/4 | Painting of patient with pellagra at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, by Robert John Grove-White | The painting shows a typical distribution of the full eruption across the body of a patient after two days of treatment. Uncaptioned. | 1944 |
DEP/GRW/1/5 | Painting of patient with tropical ulcers at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, by Robert John Grove-White | The painting shows ulceration of skin on the right shin and earlier lesions on the left. The notes (at GRW/1/6) indicate that this was non-pellagra, tropical ulcer. | 1944 |
DEP/GRW/1/6 | Description of paintings of patients with pellagra at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, by Robert John... | The paintings are numbered 1-5 and the list gives details of the appearance and treatment of the pellagra. | c1992 |
DEP/GRW/2 | Address by Robert John Grove-White on his appointment as President of the Gloucestershire branch... | The address covers his life in medicine including his experience in Singapore during the Second World War. Information on the occasion of the address comes from the accession details. Draft and final copies. | 1980s |
DEP/SMS/1/1/21 | Letter from John Gimlette, Bath to Sydney Smith | He will be sending Smith a copy of his book on Malay poisons. | 10 Jan 1929 |
DEP/STJ/4/5/3 | File of John Strong: Penang University, Malaysia | Strong took part in a workshop on medical education for academic staff. Originally in a folder with the title as given. | Dec 1980-Apr 1981 |
DEP/STJ/4/5/13 | File of John Strong: University of Malaya - Kuala Lumpur - External Assessor | Strong acted as external assessor to the University of Malaya in the promotion of suitable lecturers to Associate Professorships and appointment to the Chair of Medicine. Originally in a folder with the title as given. | Oct 1978-Sep 1980 |
DEP/STJ/4/5/14 | File of John Strong: National University of Malaysia - Selangor, W Malaysia - External Examiner | Strong acted as external examiner to the Department of Medicine of the National University of Malaysia, for which he visited the country in March 1979 writing a report on his visit which is included, and assessor for the post of Professor of Medicine. Professor J K Russell visited just after him and correspondence on his trip is also included. Originally in a folder with the title as given. | Nov 1978-Aug 1980 |
DEP/STJ/4/6/5 | Photograph of visit by Professor John Strong to the Silver Jubilee Meeting of the Singapore... | Photograph and separate caption. Professor John Strong is on the left of the second row. | Oct 1982 |
DEP/TAH/1/2/1 | Notebook D of Haldane Tait | Notes from or on: Loimologia; John Quincy; [Thomas] Sydenham; Thomas Willis; John of Burgundy; Girolamo Fracastoro; Greek cult of the dead; Babylonina Assyrian medicine; Lucretius; Plutarch De iside et osiride; development of the doctrine of contagion vivum; Paris ordinances; Sionan cults; Dekkers pamphlets; plague tracts (Sudhoff); Die lehre der kontagion bei den Arabem; fertility tests; childbirth rites (Malay); and Grimbert. | 1950s |
DEP/WOO/1/2 | [Record of Deficiency Diseases Changi Book 2] of Michael Woodruff | The first page of the volume gives the reference numbers for each condition in each of the three volumes. After this the volume is divided into the following conditions or symptoms with the letter and number code as used in the volumes (some appearing more than once): mouth and throat (E); painful feet (B; burning hands (A); encephalopathy (C1); spastic paraplegia (C2); periperhal neuritis (C3); cardiac (D1); oedema (D2); keratitis (G1); retrobulbar neutritis (G3); tropical ulcers (F3); and scrotal dermatitis (F1).
Within these divisions the following information is given: reference number; chr [chronological] number; place onset; date onset; date admission AGH [Australian General Hospital?]; date discharge AGH; days in AGH; days o-d [off duty?]; age; weight on admission; loss in weight; months in Mal [Malaysia]; past history defy [deficiency]; past history - non-defy [deficiency]; pre hospital treatment; associated diseases - defy/non defy; clinical [case history]; sev [severity?] A or B; hospital treatment; res [result]; to; examination on discharge AGH; subsequent history and remarks.
Volume used was printed as a Regimental Artificers' Daily Work Book. Title label partially removed. | 1942-1943 |
DEP/WOO/2/1 | A Study of Deficiency Disease in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp by Michael Woodruff BEE, MD, MS... | The report is divided into three parts: Living Conditions and Diet of AIF [Australian Imperial Force] Prisoners of War in Malaya; The Production and Testing of Vitamin Containing Substances in Changi; and Manifestations of Deficiency Disease Among Prisoners of War in Malaya.
It contains a wealth of statistical information, including a table analysing the diet from 1941-1944, the number of cases for each condition and graphs of weekly incidence of cases, and although it includes case histories they have been anonymised. It contains some annotations by Woodruff.
At the end is a copy of a printed article 'Deficiency Diseases in Prisoners-of-War at Changi, Singapore' by R C Burgess from The Lancet, 1946. The report was originally in two folders sellotaped together, with a label, written on the headed paper of the University of Otago Medical School 'Deficiency Diseases Original Report to DGMS [Director-General of Medical Services]- MW'. The current arrangement into two folders reflects this original arrangement. | c1946 |
DEP/WOO/2/2 | Deficiency Disease in a Japanese Prisoner Prison Camps by Dean A Smith and Michael F A Woodruff | Typed copy of Special Report 274 written for the Medical Research Council. The copy was probably made c1999. | 1951 |