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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Original and copy records, pamphlets, correspondence etc., including re criticisms of the Army Medical Service, 1804 & 1897; Boer War surgeons' names, 1899; Howell's own disputes during plague epidemic in India, 1899-1901; RAMC Journal, 1902-1918; convalescent depots in France, 1917; and the Medical Officer in Gibraltar at the time of the Great Siege, 1779-1783

Correspondence, 1916-1917, and articles for Johnston's Roll of the Commissioned Officers of the Army Medical Service, 1727-1898

Notes and drafts for Howell's articles, including re English Civil War medical officers; the campaign in Ireland, 1688-9; eighteenth-century military medicine; Robert Jackson (1750-1827), Inspector General of Hospitals; medical services at Waterloo; and notes re casualties at Bunkers Hill, Waterloo and Elandslaagte, Transvaal

Address delivered at prize-giving at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, by Sir Henry W. Acland, outlining the history of the Army Medical School

The bacteriology of fever in Malta: two papers, both reprinted from the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, bound into one volume

Ms catalogue of photographs shown in Imp(erial) Med(ical) War Museum, E(gyptian) E(xpeditionary) F(orce) Section

Portfolio of cuttings, mainly from the Illustrated London News, re medical services in the Crimean War and re Florence Nightingale

Ms catalogue of drawings, casts, prints, paintings, etc. (in Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent), of anatomical details including details of cases

Boer War memories, by Lieutenant Colonel F.A.B. Daly

The breakdown of young soldiers under training explained, by Surgeon Major F. Arthur Davy; three papers originally published separately as

Volume of copy letters, presented to Thomas Keate, Surgeon General to His Majesty's Forces, by Nodes Dickinson, their author

Album of photographs of Directors of the Indian Medical Service, 1858-1947, copies of pictures which hung in the office of the Director of Medical Services in India

Folder of letters, maps and diagrams re Lieutenant Colonel M. Dunning, Commander, 2nd Lowland Field Ambulance, in the campaigns in the Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917

Bound ms of "Introductory lecture on the practice of physic (delivered January 20th 1819)" by Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Hospitals

A field surgery pocket book: memoranda mainly based on experience in the present war

A field surgery pocket book (revised): memoranda mainly based on experience in the 1939-45 War

Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Foster's collection of material re the history of army medical services

On hygiene in Ancient India, by Surgeon General C.A. Gordon

Roll of Commissioned Officers in the medical service of the British Army who served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the RAMC (1727-1898), by Colonel William Johnston

Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815

Description of a series of watercolour drawings executed by the late Sir Charles Bell, illustrative of wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo, by Deputy Inspector General T. Longmore, Professor of Military Surgery

Photographs and memorabilia of Arthur Martin Leake, RAMC

Scrap-book and Manuals

Army Medical School correspondence and bills re the Montefiore Prizes for military surgery, including posed photographs and sketches for the design of the medal

War Office Memoranda on medical diseases in tropical and sub-tropical areas

Papers of Alexander Cushnie Morison

Thomas Murray's certificate of membership of the Royal College of Surgeons

Bound ms case notes written in captivity by Brigadier L.R.S. MacFarlane (RAMC) re treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand

Address by Dr. John Orsborn to the members of the Southampton Medical Society, in memory of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS "the founder and best teacher of military hygiene of our day"

The Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians (on Harvey's experiments which led to understanding of blood circulation), written by Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS, and read after his death

A list of commissioned medical officers of the army, Charles II to accession of George II, 1660-1727, by Colonel Alfred Peterkin

Material re the Centenary of the Army Pathology Service

Manual for Army Medical Services by Surgeon Major William E. Riordan

Material re the golden jubilee of the RAMC

RAMC Training Manuals

Instructions for the regulation of military hospitals and the sick with divisions of the army in the Peninsula .... bound with manuscript forms for scale of diet, return of medical comforts, report of the arrival of sick, diet abstract, "morning state of General Hospital" (a daily census of patients admitted, discharged, etc.) and bed head ticket (patient's details)

Colonel N. J. C. Rutherford's account of his part, with the field hospital, at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Boer War. Written in pencil "on the battlefield"

A collection of orders, regulations and instructions for the Army: on matters of finance and points of discipline immediately connected therewith, published by order of the War Office. (Section VI deals with "Medical Department of the Army, including the Veterinary Branch")

The tale of a field hospital, by Frederick Treves, Medical Officer attached to the column which relieved Ladysmith during the Boer War

Typed transcripts of letters written by Arthur Henry Taylor, an assistant surgeon with the British Army in the Crimea, to his parents, 1854-1856

Papers of Joseph Marmaduke Taylor

Letters from Edmund P. Hewitt, with the RAMC in South Africa, to his brother, Jack Hewitt, Indian Public Works Department

Second World War medical bulletins and memoranda bound into one volume

Menu and seating plan of a dinner on 8th June "in appreciation of the splendid services of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the eminent civilians attached to it during the war," with a report of the speeches made there

Newspaper cuttings scrapbook on the subject of the rank of Army Medical Officers

Newspaper cuttings scrapbooks re the Army Medical Services/Royal Army Medical Corps, 1895-1907 compiled by Lieutenant Colonel William Johnston

Sir Joseph Fayrer's scrap-books

Bound volume of 11 pamphlets and articles by Major General George J.H. Evatt, RAMC 1878-1920

'In Memoriam Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes' Reprinted from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1876

Notes on sanitation for Indian troops by T. F. Paterson, Captain, Indian Medical Service. 2nd edition, edited by Major D.R. Thapar, Malaria Medical Officer

Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service, re campaigning with the Queens Regiment against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The Tirah Campaign)

Booklet of photographic reproduction of the 'Memorial Roll ("Golden Book") of the Royal Army Medical Corps', designed by Graily Hewitt, with descriptive notes by the artist

'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'

Printed copies of royal warrants re army medicine, bound together

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-May 1856, of the Pathological Board at Balaclava in the Crimea

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?)

Pathological registers of surgeons in the camp before Sebastopol during the Crimean War, divided into sections re febrile diseases, cerebro-spinal, thoracic diseases, abdominal diseases, miscellaneous (mostly drunkenness) and gunshot wounds and surgical injuries

Volume of monthly reports, Jan-June 1856, of the Pathological Board in the camp besieging Sebastopol during the Crimean War

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-April 1856, of the Pathological Board, Highland Division, in the Crimea

7 volumes (numbered 5-11) of Sir Joseph Fayrer's "notes of interesting cases in the Medical College & Hospital (at Calcutta)", in chronological order

Papers of Surgeon John Francis Smet, 8th Light Dragoons

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. H. Morley Fletcher, FRCP

Minute Book of the Committee of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

Bound committee reports and accounts of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

5 volumes of correspondence of William Fergusson, Inspector of Army Hospitals in Portugal during the Peninsular War

Album, signed by Colonel David Bruce, Assistant Professor of Pathology, of photographs of groups of medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, with captions giving surname of each student

Papers of Assistant Surgeon Thomas Murray

Papers of Surgeon Colin Paterson

Copy of a report submitted in 1915 to the Director of Medical Services, India, by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick O'Gorman, IMS, describing a stretcher-lifter as an alternative form of casualty transport to the traditional Indian dandy

Three Chinese scrolls re anatomy

Papers of Surgeon Alexander Simpson (1819-1864)

Burgess ticket of the city of Dundee, conferring freedom of the City and Burgh on David Middleton Greig, CM, FRCSE, for his help to the people of Dundee in the hospitals and other institutions

Papers of Surgeons David Greig and David Middleton Greig (father and son?)

Album of T.B.A. Tuckey, Brevet Colonel, RAMC, containing 5 pencil-written Boer passes "taken from Boer Laager after being shelled by the British at Colesberg, 1900

Health memoranda for soldiers by Lieutenant Colonel H.K. Allport, RAMC

Folder of souvenir issues, newspaper cuttings, etc., re Centenary of the institution of the Victoria Cross

Printed syllabus of a course of lectures for 1846-47 and 1849-50 sessions, on the principles and practice of military surgery, by Jolliffe Tufnell, Assistant Surgeon to the Forces in Ireland, and Surgeon to the Military Prison

Case notes re fractured acromion process (right shoulder) of Bombardier Edward Robins, Royal Artillery

Items re Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, donated by Donald Bowie, who had charge of the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong from August 1942 until liberation in 1945

Material re the life of Dr. James Barry, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, "found upon death to have been a woman"

Jelligraph copies of extracts from Medical Staff Corps orders, including memoranda re promotion of private soldiers to rank of First Class Orderly, arms and accoutrements, compilation of reports, etc.

War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916

Papers of John James Young Campbell of Glasgow

Baird and Tatlock (London) Ltd. album of photographs of mobile laboratories manufactured and designed by them for use by the British and Allied Medical Services during the First World War, showing exteriors, interiors and equipment

Transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed in the Second World War, 1939-1945, with historical notes and statistics

Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC

Photogravure of a portrait by Dyce of Sir James McGrigor

Copy (or draft) of commission, 1657, from Charles II to John Knight, appointing him Surgeon General

Diplomas and commissions of David Middleton Greig

Papers of Surgeon William Lindsay of the 18th Foot

Papers and souvenirs of Arthur Martin Leake

Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny

Letter, 10th Sept 1855, to his parents from Assistant Surgeon T. Egerton Hale, describing the attack on the Redan at Sebastopol during the Crimean War, in the course of which Hale performed deeds of valour for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross when it was instituted in 1856

Letters and papers of Florence Nightingale

19 watercolour illustrations by Mervyn Smart (Grant?) of wounds sustained during the Allied advance on Germany "made for Brigadier Harold Edwards" (Consultant Surgeon, Allied Forces H.Q.)

Professor Edmund Parkes's photograph album of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley, with one photograph of his house in Bitterne

Sir Thomas Longmore's scrap-book of "Illustrations of appliances (and methods) for the transport of wounded soldiers", with extracts from The Ambulance Transport

Scrap-book by Captain G.H. Colt, RAMC, re development of the joined-pole trench-stretcher, including correspondence, 1915, with Captain D'Arcy Power and with Captain J. Ellis Milne, re the development of a stretcher for use in the trenches on the Western Front

Catalogue in 2 ms volumes of specimens in the Pathological Museum at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent, with details of case and of preparation of specimen

Catalogue in one ms volume of the library of the Army Medical School, Netley, in alphabetical order of author's name, with some subject entries

Necrological register of all cases admitted to general hospital, Portugal, in 1827, compiled by William M. Ford, Assistant Surgeon to H.M. Forces in Portugal

Volume of pathological (post-mortem) reports from the Army Medical School Hospital at Netley of cases admitted from other Forces hospitals

Necrological registers (reports) from General Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent

Colonel H.A.L. Howell's notes, transcriptions and cuttings for his history of army medical services

Papers of Sir William Leishman, bound into a volume

Further report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana in Zululand, by Surgeon-Major David Bruce, A.M.S.

Papers of Colonel P.S. Lelean, bound into a volume

A preliminary report on malarial conditions in Syria, Palestine and the adjoining provinces. April, May and June 1919, by Lieutenant P.S. Lelean, RAMC

Report of a committee of enquiry regarding the prevalence of pellagra among Turkish prisoners of war by Colonel Francis D. Boyd, AMS, and Lieutenant Colonel P.S. Lelean, RAMC

Report on and details of the plans of the Victoria Military Hospital at Netley

Service diary of Major David Bruce, RAMC, as Senior Medical Officer, 3rd Mounted Brigade Field Hospital in South Africa, May - Aug 1900

2 ms notebooks containing drafts of Colonel A. Peterkin's Roll of Commissioned Army Medical Officers

Letter from Sir William N. Gull to Sir Joseph Fayrer re the causes of cholera

2 letters from Sir Ronald Ross to Surgeon Colonel Lane Notter, on the occasion of the award to Ross of the Parkes Memorial Prize, mentioning theories of transmission of malaria, and designs of microscope

Note from Alphonse Laveran (to Ronald Ross) re comparisons of Dum-Dum fever with Kala-azar

Draft of letter to Mrs. Emily Lewis from Sir William Aitken, Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School, commiserating with her on the death of her husband, Surgeon Major T.R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Pathology; and Emily Lewis's reply

Letter from G.E. Dobson to Sir William Aitken, Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School, re preparation of a catalogue of the specimens of natural history in the Museum at Netley

Letter from Patrick Manson re judging essays on malaria

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Charles George Gordon ("Chinese Gordon") to Sir Edward Lugard, Under Secretary for War, re work done by Assistant Surgeon A. Moffitt, 67th Regiment, in "Kiangsoo" (Jiangsu), China, in 1863

Letter from Lord George Beresford to Sir James McGrigor begging a favour (for Mr. Meade) and reporting on his own and Lord Beresford's health

Letter from Dr. Adam Neale, Physician to the Forces, to the Chief of the Medical Staff attached to Sir John Moore's army off Maceira, Portugal, asking for medical supplies for the French wounded in the village of Vimeira

Petition of the surgeons of the regiments of foot in Ghent and Bridges (Bruges), to Major General Sabin, Commander of Her Majesty's forces in Flanders, asking for equipment

Requests for payment of expenses incurred in the course of medical duties during the war of the Spanish Succession

Bound watercolour plates "A series of anatomical drawings of the Human Brain", by Assistant Staff Surgeon Macdiarmid, Canada

Copy of the warrant appointing Mr. John Stone surgeon at the naval hospital, Gibraltar

Typescript catalogue of medical items in the Imperial War Museum, in three sections

Papers of General R.J. Blackham, RAMC, bound into one volume

First World War medical services reports

Bound letters of thanks to Sir James McGrigor, Director General of the Army Medical Department for deposits of books of anatomical engravings in various museums and institutes

The medical service with Lord Methuen's force during the advance on Kimberley 1899 by Lieutenant Colonel C.H. Burtchaell, RAMC

Bound herbarium of the medicinal plants of Mauritius (dried plants mounted with manuscript descriptions of their physical characteristics and medicinal qualities) by E. Fleurot, government chemist

Album of photographs of display at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, on the occasion of the Centenary of the birth of Sir William Leishman

4 albums of photographs by Brigadier Sidney Smith, consultant in tropical diseases, Middle East Force

Sir William Leishman's proposed syllabus and lectures (in preparation for acceptance of chair of Pathology at the Army Medical School?)

2 albums of photographs by Major David Bruce, RAMC, of Ubombo, Zululand: accommodation, colleagues, fly-country, dead game and native customs

An unused copy of The notation case-book, designed by Henry Veale, MD, Assistant Professor of Military Medicine, Army Medical School

Pathology notebook of T.R. Lewis, Special Assistant to the Sanitary Commission of the Government of India, illustrated, with a sketch of "The Fungus Foot" by Dr. (later Sir Joseph) Fayrer as frontispiece

Sir David Bruce's notebook of bacteriological experiments including rabies and cholera, undertaken as Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School at Netley

Sir David Bruce's notebook re cholera literature, compiled when he was Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School at Netley

Ms. lists of army medical officers at the Battles of Blenheim (1704) and Malplaquet (1709) and succession list of regimental medical officers, 1666-1873 (incomplete), compiled by Colonel Alfred Peterkin

Two volumes of sketch plans by Lance Corporals S.T. Smith and A.R. Watt, RAMC, of Advanced Dressing Stations occupied by Field Ambulances of the 23rd Division in Flanders during the Battle of the Somme, 1916-1917, with ms. description

Printed reports by Lieutenant Colonel A.M. Davies, RAMC, in connection with local investigations at stations in Britain where there seemed to have been undue prevalence of preventible illness

Professor Francis de Chaumont's papers re instruction of the Army Hospital Corps

Typescript copy of an article in The Times, 8 November 1898, re training and recruitment in the Army Medical Service

Photocopy of an illustrated article in Deutsche militärärztliche Zeitshrift, 1892, entitled "Verletzungen durch Blitzschlag" by Dr. H.F. Nicolai

Photocopy of the suggestions (c.1855) by the Director-General (of the A.M.S.) re a pathological board "to investigate the state of health of the Army in the East", from an appendix to Regimental Medical Histories

Interim Report of the (War Office) Committee on certain medical disabilities of recruits: diseases of the middle ear, loss and decay of many teeth, and flat feet

Tabulation of cases of lesion of the heart and blood vessels, from the necrological register of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, with slight explanatory remarks, by Francis H. Welch, surgeon, Army Medical Department, and Assistant Pathologist, Army Medical School

Provisional handbook of instructions for the Millbank Portable Hot Air Disinfecting and Drying Apparatus, with photographs of diagrams and drawings of the apparatus and of a plan of a model divisional bathing and disinfection Centre

Plates from medical works

Photocopy of draft letter, 2 July 1890, from Sir William Aitken, Professor of Pathology, Army Medical School, Netley, forwarding to the Director General, Army Medical Service, the manuscript of part of a new catalogue of the preparations in the museum at Netley

Bound typescript annual report of No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire

Typescript of "Las transfusiones de plasma o suero animal desanafilactizado en el tratamiento de la anemia aguda post-hemorragica, shock traumatico, hipoproteinemias y toxicosis del lactante", by Jose Maria Massons of the Pharmacological Section of the Medical Research Institute of Barcelona University

Catalogue of the Royal Army Medical College museum

Bound watercolour plates "Injuries and diseases of the femur taken from preparations by Sir Charles Bell, Dr. Barclay, etc., in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeon, Edinburgh", by J. Macdiarmid

Notes and correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel J.B. Neal, RAMC

Stipple portrait of Edward Jenner by Edward Findon, published by John Murray

The histology of vaccinia by S. Monckton Copeman and Gustav Mann, being Appendix C to the Report of the Medical Officer (to H.M. Government)

Certificate of qualification of Private A.H. Wood, RAMC, as a Nursing Orderly, Third Class

Sir William Leishman's mounted drawings of spirochaeta recurrentis (relapsing fever organism) from citrated mouse blood (prepared for publication in The Lancet)

Photocopy of War Office minute, 1902, by Major-General Keogh to Lord Roberts, the Commander in Chief, recommending Major William Leishman for the post of Professor of Pathology in the Medical Staff College

Photocopies of pages from Punch magazine

Photocopy of Sir William Leishman's diary of leave trip to Kashmir, 1896

Group photograph (of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley?)

Watercolour sketches by Brevet Colonel Sir William Leishman of Plasmodium Kochi, and the manuscript draft of his paper on monkey malaria which they illustrate, read to the Pathological Society "probably at their meeting in January 1914"

Manuscript and typescript of a draft summary of simple rules respecting personal hygiene and preservation of health of the families of soldiers in India, by Colonel E.A. Parkes and Professor M.G. Maclean

Articles extracted from the British Journal of Surgery

Collection re Sir Charles Bell

Correspondence re the Parkes Memorial Prize and account of the Prize Fund (1881-1888)

File of correspondence, mainly about the Army Medical School

Instructions from the Ordnance to Henry Remmington, re his duties as surgeon's mate to the train of artillery in Germany

Plans of British army hospitals for the Boer War

Photographs of General Hospitals, ambulance trains and wagons, stretchers and dispensaries, during the Boer War

2 letters re medals awarded by the Chinese government to Staff Assistant Surgeon A. Moffitt, and the propriety of his accepting and wearing them

Miscellaneous Crimean War letters and papers

Letter from Thomas Phips(?) to Sir James McGrigor re deposit in the museum at Chatham of an idol from British Honduras

Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, etc.

Collection of Lieutenant Colonel J.B. Neal

Group photograph of an RAMC company (at Ventnor? or Netley?)

Bound typescript "History of the RAMC Prize Funds"

The works of Sir W. MacArthur

Typescript copy of "Medical Aspects of the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936", by Sir Aldo Castellani, Inspector-General of the Italian Army and Naval Medical Services

Publications from and re British campaigns in Salonica (Thessaloniki, Greece)

"The history of sweat and prickly heat, 19th-20th Century", by E.T. Renbourn. Reprinted from The Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Typescript report on tour of ALFSEA (Allied Land Forces, South East Asia) and India, Dec 1944-Jan 1945 by Major General D. T. Richardson, C.B., M.C., Director of Hygiene at the War Office

Memorable rolls, by Alistair G.D. Whyte. Reprinted from Aberdeen University Review (re Peterkin's, Johnston's and Drew's Rolls of Medical Officers 1660-1960)

Publications re army pathology, bound into a volume

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel H.D. Chalke, RAMC

'The Secocoeni War, 1878-79', by Captain C. Lacon Harvey, late Staff Officer of the Forces in Transvaal. Extracted from The United Services Magazine, Nov & Dec, 1879

Proposal to form a corps of volunteer female nurses for service in the Army Hospitals in the field, with suggestions as to the incorporation of the nursing profession, by Surgeon-Major G.J.H. Evatt of the Army Medical Staff

The medical department in the field, a commentary on Surgeon-General Longmore's Gunshot injuries, their history, features and treatment (1877) and the German army's Kriegs-Sanitäts Ordnung" (1878), printed for private circulation

The medico-military arrangements of the Japanese army in the field, by Surgeon-General W. Taylor, Principal Meical Officer, South-Eastern District

Colonel H.A.L. Howell's papers re the history of the army's medical services, bound in 3 volumes

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