Letters and notes

Date:: 1850-1856

Reference:: RAMC/637/1-5

Part of:: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments CollectionRAMC
- Miscellaneous Crimean War letters and papersRAMC/637
  - Letters and notesRAMC/637/1-5

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Letters and notes. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Comprised of the following:

RAMC/637/1: Letter from John Davy re statistics on disease among the troops in the Crimea, and the abilities of Surgeon Thomas Longmore, June 1855.

RAMC/637/2: Notes by Thomas Longmore re unusual wounds, August-September 1855.

RAMC/637/3: Letter from Surgeon Major H.C. Reade to (John) Birkett re unusual gunshot wound of Private J. Beahan, c.Dec 1855.

RAMC/637/4: 2 letters from Surgeon Edward Menzies to (John) Birkett re living conditions in the Crimea, surgery at Kamara, and need for reform of Army Medical Service, February and April 1856.

RAMC/637/5: Prescriptions (?) in Latin, "pro palatio", signed with a Russian name (Bielanseff?), 1850.

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1850-1856

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1 file

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Piece-level data moved to item record and piece records flagged for deletion in Sep 2025 by MB

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No information available on copyright: the position will presumably vary from item to item, with copyright in official documents resting with the RAMC or other government department and that in personal memoirs remaining with the creator, his/her heirs or assigns.

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