Collected papers on surgery

Ten short Papers.

MS.1728/1: Baroni, Paolo Maria (1799-1854): Incomplete draft of an article on 'Calcolo vesicale' for the 'Opere chirurgiche', published at Bologna in 1837. Author's holograph MS., 1837, 4to. & folio. 26 x 19 cm., 191/2 x 131/2 cm.Purchased 1933.

MS.1728/2: Bazy, Pierre (1853-1934): "Note sur la pyélotomie dans les calculs du rein. Rapidité d'accroissement des calculs du rein". Author's holograph MS., written on the rectos only, and foliated 7-14., 1922, 4to. 20 x 16 cmPurchased 1927.

MS.1728/3: Cousins, John Ward (1834-1921): Operations witnessed by J. Ward Cousins (performed by Edward John Scott (1812-1857)), Portsmouth, 1850-1852. Author's holograph MS., illustrated with small pen-drawings. Some of the operations were made under chloroform., 1850-1852, 8vo. 17 x 11 cmPresented 1923.

MS.1728/4: Gerrard, Percy Netterville (d.1915): "Traumatic rupture of the spleen: splenectomy: recovery." Produced at Kuala Lumpur, 1908. Typescript with holograph additions and corrections, and a photograph of the patient., 1908, folio. 131/2 x 211/2 cmPresented 1931.

MS.1728/5: Howard, Robert (d.1947): "Some notes on the surgery of injuries from wild beasts" and "A note on the use of quinine alcaloid": Author's holograph MSS., 1909, folio. 29 x 221/2 cmPresented 1931.

MS.1728/6: Labbe, Léon (1832-1916): Note sur la ponction de la vessie pratiquée dans la région hypogastrique à laide du trocart capillaire et de lopération pneumatique, Authors holograph MS., written on the rectos only. A heading in pencil, apparently by the author, is Travail lu au Congrès de Birmingham en 1874, but a translated article with the same title is entered in the Surgeon-Generals Catalogue s.v. BLADDER, Puncture of as published in The Practitioner, London, 1872, Vol. IX, pp. 226-233. No record has been traced of a Medical Congress at Birmingham in 1874., 1874, 4to. 241/2 x 18cmPresented 1934.

MS.1728/7: Lejars, Félix (1863-1932): Speech at the Re-opening of the Clinique Chirurgicale de l'Hôpital de Saint Antoine à Paris. 8 February, 1924. Written mainly on the rectos only., 1924, 4to. 23 x 191/2 cmPresented 1935.

MS.1728/8: Mohammed III, Emperor of the Turks (1566-1603): Circoncizione di Mehemet (sic) 3°: tradotta del turco. A late 17th cent. transcript of perhaps a contemporary (1579) account, extracted from a Collection of transcripts relating to Turkey, in Italian. This belonged to Frederic North, 5th Earl of Guildford (1783-1827), and was later bought by John Lee (1763-1868), Antiquary and Scientist., c.1685, folio. 28 x 201/2cmPurchased 1934.

MS.1728/9: Owen, Edmund Blackett (1847-1915): "Gunshot injury to the musculo-spiral nerve". Copied c.1900 by Arvid Ludvig Kellgren (1856-1944): copyist's holograph MS., inscribed title on the upper cover by Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax (1874-1955)., 1876-c.1900, 4to. 221/2 x 171/2 cmPurchased from the Royal Society of Medicine, 1956 (acc.303950).

MS.1728/10: Wright, Sir Almroth Edward (1861-1947), surgeon: "Hypertonic solution for irrigating septic wounds": resumé by Dr. C. F. Cuthbert. Typescript with a few holograph corrections by Cuthbert., 1915, 4to. 26 x 20 cmPurchased 1927.

c.1685 1924

Unbound.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).