| Description Of Item | This volume is less organised than BRE/2/1-5. Loose sheet at the front lists the chapters: the first great war; physician to RIE [Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh] - lecturer on neurology - Professor of Clinical Medicine; Laennec celebration in Paris - lectures at Basle - first International Congress at Berne - Neurological Section of RSM [Royal Society of Medicine] visits Amsterdam; Chair of Medicine 1927; President RCPE [Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] I retire from my chair and RIE appointment - President Association of British Neurologists - LLD [Legum Doctor]; visit of BMA to Australia; Illness; Came to 29 Ormidale Terrace. This is followed by a list headed 'Possible headings for further chapters in memoirs'.
The actual chapters are: The Years of the First Great War; the Chair of Medicine in 1927 (which includes diary entries for July 13th to February 24th 1928); the BMA [British Medical Association] - Annual Meetings I have Attended - BMA Lectures. At the rear were handwritten notes for chapters titled 'The Physician as a reader of and contributor to medical literature' and 'The Physician as reader and writer' with a list of prominent medical men Bramwell had known or met; a typed chapter 22 'The Medical Man and the Literature'; a journal of a visit to Basle where according to an annotation he was invited by the university to give a short course of lectures; rough handwritten chronological biography; list of journey abroad for work and sport and BMA meetings attended; and an index. |