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Ref NoDEP/BRE/2/1
Title[Rough Notes on Recollections Volume 1] by Edwin Bramwell
Date1943-1945
TermSecond World War
Mental illness
Description Of ItemChapter headings are: my health; my early contacts with Sir William Turner and Professor D J Cunningham; honorary degrees; peace and war; the determination of a war; persecution of the Jews; Lord Haldane's part in the first world war; 'I might have stopped the war'; the Crown Prince Frederick and his illness; the Buccleuchs and the Guelphs; upon surnames; the transmission of congenital deformities of the hands; children's remarks; speaking in public; Sir James Barrie as a speaker; the brain that doesn't tire; a cure for the tobacco habit; Capetown to Freemantle - the journey across Australia - Canberra and the Halford Oration; the first international Neurological Congress; Sir James Mackenzie; the country gentleman; the nouveau riche; Professor Greenfield; neurology and psychiatry - their respective scopes; the Heptagon Club; Sir James Purves-Stewart; Sir Robert Hutchison; Rt Hon the Viscount Dawson of Penn; Lewis Smith; Sir Frederick Menzies; Lord Macmillan; Viscount Dunedin of Stenton; Earl of Rosebery; fishing on the Laerdal; Frankfort [sic] in 1898; I go abroad for work and pleasure; the Russian rumour - Colonel Mason-Macfarlane; Bessemer of steel fame and the Encyclopaedia Britannica; de Ramsey and the hair ball in the King's stomach; some absent-minded professors; some old people I have met; and earliest recollections. Includes an additional different copy of 'Early Recollections'. Some pencil amendments throughout and the dates 1945 and May 1943 added in pencil at different locations.
Extent1 volume
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