Annual review : 1999-2000 / Contemporary Medical Archives Centre and Western Manuscripts Department.
- Contemporary Medical Archives Centre
- Date:
- 2000
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: Annual review : 1999-2000 / Contemporary Medical Archives Centre and Western Manuscripts Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![named, rumours retailed (from the number of prostitutes in the garrison to the death of an army surgeon who had already survived a dose of the infection but then tested the theory of immunity by sleeping in another victim’s bed), and official notices transcribed. Anticipating at Christmas the imminent relaxation of quarantine restrictions, as the disease had seemingly run its course, the reporter notes that “we shall be like a parcel [sic] of sailors just got on shore”. One of Edward Coleman’s students when he lectured at Guy’s Hospital was John Flint South (1797-1882), later a noted surgeon; his notes on Coleman’s lectures taken in 1817 are in the collection (MS.1709). His chief interest during the latter part of his life was the history of surgery, and the fruits of his researches were published posthumously by D’Arcy Power in 1886. An early record of South’s historical work surfaced mysteriously at auction in 1999, in the form of a notebook containing memoranda on the history of surgery made in the early 1850s (MS.7793). The diaries that South kept throughout his life, mentioned by Power in his DNB article on South, do not seem to have survived, so that this notebook may be the sole extant record of South’s research, apart from scattered correspondence. The volume also contains a sprinkling of odd diary entries, including one for 29 May 1857: “saw the new Reading Room of the British Museum and got my ticket renewed. Catalogue now finished in 300 vols, arranged round the circular table in the centre of the Room ... within this is a circular table where the sublibrarians sit to take your ticket for Books ...”. This description would have been instantly recognisable to every user of the Round Reading Room for the next one hundred and forty years. Summary list of accessions Recipe books of Frances Tyrrell, 1682, Mary Peacock, 1699, and Dorothea Repps, 1703. MSS. 7822, 7787-7788 Miscellaneous medical, cookery and household recipe collections, 17th— 19th cents. English and French. MSS. 7814, 7818-7819, 7821, 7832, 7834-7835 Notebook of an anonymous English commentator on the Low Countries, containing some medical entries, early 18th cent. MS. 7820](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31847948_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
