| Description Of Item | The cuttings are very miscellaneous. Some of the subjects include: polio vaccine; First World War nurses; Edith Cavell; Stephen Hales; James Hope; Claude Bernard and Francois Magendie; Etienne Marey and Jean Chauveau; Sir Thomas Lewis; heart disease; history of dropsy; psychiatry; geographic medicine; diets in Nepal; health hazards of Cornish tin mining; quacks; medicine and the navy; medical physics; Joseph Lister; vaccination; statue to Jenner; Macmillan's medical publishers; David Livingstone; London Cinchona Bureau leaflet; medicine among the American Indians; letters and leaflets from publishers about recent books; letter from 'Jean' with notes on Chiron as a symbol for healing; first day covers for stamps commemorating Lister; letter from 'Archie' asking for a reference for Lister's theory on the sterile nature of alveolar air; and a note of thanks to Tait from Health Visitor students signed by them all. Originally in an envelope labelled 'Taken from the H P Tait Collection'. The original location of the items is not known. |