Annual review : 1991/92 / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Department of Western Manuscripts.

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Department of Western Manuscripts
Date:
1992
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Credit: Annual review : 1991/92 / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Department of Western Manuscripts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    particular energy being devoted in the inter-war years to acquiring letters, papers and memorabilia of continental scientists and intellectuals. Among the latter represented in our cataloguing this year have been a handful of central European figures of considerable interest and stature, including Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796-1878), Professor of Physics at Vienna; Joseph Redtenbacher (1810-1870), a student of Julius von Leibig at Giessen and later Professor of Chemistry at Vienna; Salomon Stricker (1834-1898), Hungarian-born Professor of Experimental Pathology at Vienna; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), Austrian novelist and source of the term ‘masochist’; Ernst Fleischl von Marxow (1846-1891), physiologist and sometime pupil of both Ettingshausen and Redtenbacher; the physicians Edward Albert (1841-1900) and Julius von Hochenegg (1849-1940); and the bacteriologist Karl Fraenkl (1861-1915). Other manuscripts catalogued during the year have included documents concerning the imprisonment of Archibald Cameron, physician and Jacobite, 1755; correspondence of James Currie, Liverpool physician, 1780-1804 (including letters to Erasmus Darwin); letters and orders from the Navy Victualling Board on the provisioning of ships, 1788-1815 (including some addressed to Admiral William Cornwallis); documents relating to Sir John MacAndrew, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, 1808-59; documents relating to the Morgan family, surgeon-apothecaries of Lichfield, 1815-61; papers of Sir Evan Nepean, governor of Bombay, on trade in the Middle East, 1816-19; certificates and other papers of the surgeons T. H. Harrison, 1821-43, and Christopher Martin, 1887-1927, and of the physician William Mansell-MacCulloch, 1866-74; correspondence and papers of Charles Hunter on subcutaneous injection, 1862-8; papers on the case of General Sir Archibald Hunter, wounded in Egypt in 1885, 1886-1902; correspondence on the claim of G. W. Hambleton to have discovered a cure for consumption, 1894-1912; correspondence and papers of J. B. Hurry on publications, 1922-9; and papers of H. C. H. Candy, consulting analyst to
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