DEP/BOY/1/3 | 22nd Singapore Malaysia Congress of Medicine with the Participation of the Royal College of... | From the collection of David Boyd. Opening Ceremony Programme, photographs and invitation. | 1988 |
DEP/BOY/1/4 | Certificate of Attendance of Dr D H A Boyd at 22nd Singapore Malaysia Congress of Medicine | From the collection of David Boyd. | Aug 1988 |
DEP/BOY/1/5 | 22nd Singapore Malaysia Congress of Medicine Theme - Medicine: State of the Art in 1988 | From the collection of David Boyd. Congress programme with timetable and procedures. | Aug 1988 |
DEP/BOY/1/6 | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Dinner in the Mandarin Hotel, Singapore | From the collection of David Boyd. Menu signed by conference delegates. | Aug 1988 |
DEP/CRW/2/4 | Notes for 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by William Stuart Craig | Folder 1 - includes the influence of the college in Singapore; list of doctors with FRCPE and MRCPE in Burma; list of College committees and chairmen; list of HM Physicians in Ordinary; section of text vetted by Sir Stanley Davidson; copies of articles; statistics on fellows and members. Folder 2 - notebooks with extracts for interpolation and name index; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh history of the library; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh report on the library 1973-1974; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh its Origins and Functions by G R Pendrill Folder 3 - Appendix A - Chronological List of Events with a list of doubtful dates Folder 4 - notes on the foreword, acknowledgements, illustrations and contents Folder 5 - includes correspondence on references1973-1975 Folder 6 - includes letter from Blackwells Scientific Publications; notes of meetings on the Edinburgh and Medicine exhibition at the Royal Scottish Museum; influence of Edinburgh medical graduates; notes of meetings on 250th anniversary of the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Medicine | 1973-1975 |
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/GRW/1 | Paintings of Pellagra by Robert John Grove-White | The water colour sketches are of patients with pellagra at Sime Road Camp, Singapore all signed and dated by Grove-White. This section also includes a later description of the drawings presumably written by Grove-White when he donated the collection. | 1944-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/STJ/4/5/1 | Notebooks of Professor John A Strong | Six notebooks for the trips Perth [Western Australia] to Calcutta [Kolkata] [India] February 1981; South Africa and Singapore 1982; Dordogne [France] 1990 and Limousin [France] 1993; Pakistan [1982?] and Kenya; Bangladesh; and a trip to France. | 1981-1993 |
DEP/STJ/4/5/7 | File of John Strong: Singapore [British Malaya] | Personal letters but including the memorandum and articles of association of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore [British Malaya] and 'Specialist Medical Practice in Singapore - Prospects and Challenges' by Dr Lawrence K C Chan. Originally in a folder with the title as given. | Dec 1982-Dec 1996 |
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/4/3 | Subject file of Haldane Tait: Australia - Men and Medicine | Includes 'Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia' by O H Wyndham, Internal Journal of Nursing Studies, 1970; 'Medical History in its Australian Environment' by Bryan Gandevia, Medical Journal of Australia, 1967 with letter from Gandevia to Tait; 'Books purchased by Medical Libraries in Australia prior to 1856' by Ann Tovell and Bryan Gandevia, Medical History, 1965; 'Good Health' Journal of the Department of Public Health, South Australia, 1971; 'A History of General Practice in Australia' by Bryan Gandevia, Canadian Family Physician, 1971; 'The Biracial Origin of the Australian Aborigines' by John Morrison; 'Escape from the Rate Race' medical services in Papua New Guinea; 'Some Medical Institutions in Australia' by C V Crockett, British Medical Journal, 1968; catalogue of the exhibition Medicine in the Eighteenth Century by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians 1973; Medical Journal of Australia, 1967; 'Memoir of the South West Branch of the BMS in Victorian and Edwardian Times' by P M G Russell, BMJ, 1976; 'A Comparison of the Heights of Boys Transported to Australia c1840' by Bryan Gandevia, Australian Paediatric Journal, 1977; 'Women in Australian Aborigine Art'; 'New Medical School for New Zealand' by D S Cole, BMJ, 1965; 'Birth Pangs of Medibank' by Philip Rhodes, BMJ, 1975; 'The Australian Aborigine and the Flying Public Health Doctor' by A H Humphrey; 'A Collection of Medical Books and Pamphlets of Australian Interest' by Bryan Gandevia with correspondence between Tait and Gandevia and a supplement to the Australia and New Zealand History of Medicine; 'Frank Hobill Cole - A Paediatric Profile' by Howard Boyd Graham, Medical Journal of Australia, 1959; 'A Singapore Society for History of Medicine' by Bryan Gandevia, Medical Newsletter, 1969; supplement on Australia in The Scotsman, 1977; 'Australian GPs concerned about future' by Gavin Souter, Pulse, 1971; 'Australian doctors remember their medical pioneers' , Medical News, 1964; and other newspaper cuttings. | 1959-1977 |
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 |
DEP/WOO/2/3 | Chapter 8 from autobiography 'Nothing Venture Nothing Win' by Michael F A Woodruff | Typed manuscript for chapter titled 'Adapting to Captivity'. | c1997 |
DEP/WOO/3/1 | Photographs of Sir Michael Woodruff | The photographs are of Woodruff's time in Singapore [British Malaya] and Malaya (Malaysia) before the Japanese invasion. The captioned photographs depict the mess; a Rotary Club meeting; 10 AGH [Australian General Hospital] accommodated in Malacca Hospital [Malaysia], June 1941 (used in his autobiography); local wildlife; local houses, people and farming; blood bank laboratory; patients; Club Padang in Singapore [British Malaysia]; a direct transfusion using Julian Smith apparatus; the first donor at the blood bank; donors receiving cups of tea in the rest room of the blood bank; a Malay patient with facial disability; the CO [Commanding Officer] with the C in C [Commander in Chief] Air Vice-Marshall Brooke-Poppham April 1941 (used in his autobiography); tin mine near Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] [Federated Malay States]; Kuala Lumpur [Federated Malay States]; the Maxwell Arms and the Fraser's Hill golf course; padi (paddy); plaque to St Francis Zavier (Xavier) in the old church Malacca; the old church Malacca [Malaysia]; Stadthuys, Malacca [Malaysia]; mosque at Kuala Lumpur [Federated Malay States]; and a Chinese temple. The uncaptioned photographs are mostly of scenery but include two in a hospital including what may be Woodruff at a patient's bedside. 24 with captions or numbering, 18 uncaptioned and 12 with captions only. | 1939-1941 |