DEP/ALW/2/16 | Letter from Tom Lesslie, Burwood, New South Wales to Dr William Alister Alexander | He writes of his experiences settling into a surgical residency in Australia including an amusing interaction between a colleague and a 'New Guinea native'. | 10 Aug 1944 |
DEP/BRE/3/2/4 | Letter to Sir Colin Mackenzie, Canberra, Australia from Edwin Bramwell | He thanks him for the reprints. | 13 Jan 1936 |
DEP/BRE/3/2/7 | Letter from Sir Colin Mackenzie, Canberra, Australia to Edwin Bramwell | He thanks him for the reprints. | 5 Mar 1936 |
DEP/BRE/3/2/42 | Letter from Professor F Wood Jones, Melbourne, Australia to Edwin Bramwell | He is unable to remember details of a conversation he had with Bramwell. | 8 Jan 1937 |
DEP/BRE/3/2/62 | Letter from Sir Sidney J Sewell, Melbourne, Australia to Edwin Bramwell | He writes about his impending visit and his intention to come to Edinburgh, Scotland with Sir Charles Blackburn, the first president of the Australasian Royal College of Physicians. | 4 May 1937 |
DEP/BRE/3/3/3 | Letter from Dr H Gengoult Smith, Melbourne, Australia to Edwin Bramwell | Letter of introduction for Eric L Cooper, superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital, Australia. | 2 Jul 1932 |
DEP/BRE/3/3/5 | Letter from Richard Linton, Agent General for Victoria, Australia to Edwin Bramwell | Linton writes with a letter of introduction from Dr Gengoult-Smith, asking for Bramwell's advice on the medical education of his eldest son. | 24 Apr 1933-3 Oct 1933 |
DEP/CJN/6/1/11 | Tobacco file of John Crofton: Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Australian General Practice | Produced by the Australian Government. | 2004 |
DEP/CJN/6/3/1 | [Notebooks of John Crofton] | Notebooks on a trip to Japan for a Liaison Committee Conference, 1987; a trip to Western Australia, 1987; and Perth, Western Australia, 1990. | 1987-1990 |
DEP/CRO/3/7 | Royaumont News-Letter Volume III No 7 | From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton. Includes letter to the Royaumont Unit from our Medecin-Chef (Frances Ivens); my life in Australia; letter from the mayor of Asnieres-sur-Oise; 10th annual general meeting; poem to Collum (honorary editor); request for donations to the Emergency Loan Fund; letters to the editor; and news from members. | May 1933 |
DEP/CRO/3/36 | Royaumont and V C Association of the Scottish Women's Hospitals News Letter No 6 Series 2 | From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton. Includes letters from the President and Chairman; Edinburgh luncheon and annual general meeting; London tea party; obituaries for Sister Lindsay, Lucie Carmichael, Paley and Rolt; reprint of an article 'A Hospital in France Chapter IV' by Collum, 1918; news from members; letter from Australia from Figgis; 'The Heroism of a French Priest' by Hilda Smeal - an account of the saving of France's art treasures; an account by Dr Henry of life in the Laurentian Hills in Canada; account of a trip to Holland [Netherlands] by Nicky; and statement of accounts. | Jan 1967 |
DEP/CRW/1/4 | Articles and lectures by William Stuart Craig, numbers 84-117 | Includes 'The Care of Child Life - A Commonwealth of Interests' University of Leeds Review, 1953; lecture to Huddersfield Medical Society on 'The Historical Background to Paediatric Care', 1953; address to the National Association of Nursery Matrons 'The Educational Value of the Nursery Services to the Parent', 1953; address to the ICAA 'The Handicapped Child as a Person', 1953; address 'Some Anomalies in the Neonate and their Treatment', Hull 1953; address 'The Child with Cerebral Palsy' to York Cerebral Palsy Parents' Association, 1953; 'Cerebral Palsy in Childhood' The Practitioner, 1953; 'Handicaps in Child Life' Social Service, 1953; address 'Voluntary Work and the Handicapped Children' to the National Association of Women's Clubs, 1953; 'Some Advances in Neo-Natal Care' lecture given at Leeds Post-graduate course reprinted from Midwives Chronicle and Nursing Notes, 1953; newspaper cutting of a letter by Craig to the Times Educational Supplement on handicapped children, 1953; contribution to the annual report of the School Medical Officer of the City of Leeds on paediatric services, 1954; 'Voluntary Work and the Handicapped Child' Child Care Quarterly Review, 1954; 'The Care of Child Life and Health' British Medical Journal, 1954; address 'The Social Aspects of Marasmus' to British Medical Association Glasgow, 1954; 'A Thousand Families in Newcastle upon Tyne - an approach to the study of health and illness in children' by James Spence, W S Walton, F J W Miller and S D M Court, 1954; 'Trends in the Nursing Care of the Sick Child' Nursing Mirror, 1954; 'Gargoylism in a twin brother and sister' Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1954; address 'The Needs of the Child under Five Years' to annual conference of Children's Officers, 1954; reviews by Craig of 'A Thousand Families in Newcastle upon Tyne - an approach to the study of health and illness in children'; review for the Royal Sanitary Institute of 'Deprived Children' by Hilda Lewis, 1954; 'Perspective in Paediatrics' Medical Journal of the South-West, 1956; address 'The Early Recognition of Some Important Symptoms in the Newborn' to Keighley and District Medical Society, 1955; address on 'Nutrition of Over-fives' to National Council of Children's Societies, 1955; 'Anoxia and Respiratory Failure' read at the British Medical Association meeting, Toronto, 1955; talk to the Marriage Guidance Council on health and development, 1955; 'The Rhesus Factor in General Practice' The Medical Press, 1955; 'Idiopathic Hypercalcaemia in an Infant' by I M P Dawson, W S Craig and F J C Perera, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1954; lecture 'Practical Points in the Nursing Care of the Newborn' to Royal College of Midwives postgraduate course, 1955; review of 'Social Security in the British Commonwealth - Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand' by Ronald Mendelsohn, 1955; summary of lecture 'Palpable Pyloric Tumours in the Early Days of Life' and published article from Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1955; and advertisement for 'Nursing Care of the Newly Born Infant', 1955. | 1953-1955 |
DEP/CRW/3/1/10 | J - correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by... | Letters from E H Jellinek; Maxwell Johnstone, British Postgraduate Medical Federation including an account of the 56th London Division during the Second World War; and Leonard Jolley, University Librarian, University of Western Australia. | 16 May 1972-8 Mar 1975 |
DEP/CRW/3/1/16 | S - correspondence relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh' by... | Letters from Major General Sachs; W [Wilfred] Sircus; Robert Smart; David de Souza, Department of Health, Canberra, Australia; James Syme; and Ian Sutherland. | 12 Aug 1971-3 Oct 1974 |
DEP/CRW/3/2 | Correspondence of Dr William Stuart Craig relating to 'History of the Royal College of Physicians... | Includes copies of Craig's letters to various correspondents asking for information for the book (see CRW/3/1 for other responses); an article for the College Chronicle on the progress of the College history; letter from Angus Stuart of the Edinburgh Pathological Club asking Craig to contribute to the Club's series of tape recordings on the history of medicine; personal letter from Thomas Cone, Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics on current trends in medicine; request from the Royal College of Physicians of London for a photograph of Craig to complete their collection; request for a reference for Cyril Perara from David de Souza, Canberra Hospitals Board, Australia; and letter from Churchill Livingstone on sales of 'Care of the Newly Born Infant'. | 23 Jan 1970-23 May 1975 |
DEP/CUL/1/3/70 | Letter from J C [John Coakley] Lettsom, London, England to William Cullen | He asks if Cullen could write something for the third volume of the Medical Society. He compliments Cullen on Materia Medica. He has no medical news to report as the 'profession is prosecuted here more as a lucrative than as an honourable profession'. Natural history is more popular as it requires 'little expense of studious labour'. He reports that accounts of voyages by Dixon and Portlock to Botany Bay and Port Jackson have been published and animals and birds and other specimens brought back to London including 'a yellow resinous substance...as yet applicable to no use'. He welcomes the expansion of 'our language, manners, religion and laws' to a fifth part of the globe. He is now caring for a previous patient of Cullen's, Mr Maze, from the West Indies. He has been treated with electricity and lizards. In index. | 3 Aug 1789 |
DEP/GUT/4/4 | 'Down and Around' by Douglas Guthrie | Two versions, one in the Caledonian Medical Journal and the other a reprint from the Journal of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, Edinburgh, Scotland. An article about his travels in Australia and China. | Jul 1936 |
DEP/GUT/4/24 | 'A Medical Historian in New Zealand and Australia' by Douglas Guthrie | Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. | Jul 1954 |
DEP/LAL/2/14 | War scrapbook of William Lindsay Lamb: Cutting titled 'V C for Crete Heroes' | From The Egyptian Gazette. Lamb has added a caption of information from 'Hunters from the Sky' by Charles Whiting (1975) about the poor resources of Freyberg's New Zealand and Australian troops and German losses. Page 14. | May 1941-1975 |
DEP/LAT/1/51 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Mental Hygiene - Heredity | Contains 'Hereditariness of Insanity and imbecility or idiocy' with pasted cutting on inherited characteristics in different races; 'Mental Regimen'; and later notes on 'Legal Responsibility and our patients'. Also includes 'Affinities and Differences between the brain of man and the brains of certain animals' by George Rolleston, 1862; and small cuttings on progress of growth according to age, curiosities of the census, heredity, the Habitual Criminals Act, heredity in the royal family and Australian aborigines. | 1850s-1870s |