Miscellaneous material

Comprises the following:

MS.7938/1: Autographs of Magistrand Class, University of Aberdeen, session 1869-1870, including Cantlie. This is a key to a group portrait which is not included in the collection, dated c.1870.

MS.7938/2: Booklet of testimonials in favour of Cantlie as candidate for the Chair of Surgery in the University of Aberdeen, dated 1882.

MS.7938/3: 'The Army Medical Service', a paper read by Cantlie before the Charing Cross Hospital Medical Society, with a record of the discussion that followed. Cantlie proposes an Army Medical School be established where students who have passed their primary examinations can live and study (this later became Millbank) and that medical men must have official rank. He also states that dentistry should be taught at Netle, dated November 1897.

MS.7938/4: Leaflet advertising a lecture "Things Chinese" illustrated by lantern slides and Chinese curios, to be delivered by Dr Sun Yat Sen and Cantlie, 11 Mar, at St Martin's Town Hall, for the Charing Cross Hospital Special Appeal Fund. Mounted on cardboard, dated 1897.

MS.7938/5: Charing Cross Hospital Annual Dinner of past and present students, dinner card, with notes for a speech written on front and back in pencil, dated October 1898.

MS.7938/6: Booklet of testimonials in favour of Cantlie as candidate for the Appointment of Surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital Society, Greenwich, dated 1899.

MS.7938/7: Statement by the Seamen's Hospital Society, for the foundation of the London School of Tropical Medicine in connection with their Branch Hospital in the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks, with reprinted press articles. Annotated proof, dated c.1899.

MS.7938/8: Garrison Theatre [Hong Kong] programme of lectures for Oct-Nov, including Cantlie "Scottish song and history", dated c.1890s.

MS.7938/9: Letter to Cantlie from the Royal Colonial Institute (R.C.I.) Secretary, inviting a more detailed proposal from Cantlie regarding his suggestion of the formation of a Colonial Medical Association under the auspices of the R.C.I, dated May 1902.

MS.7938/10: Letter to Cantlie from Lister excusing himself from Cantlie's "request" (details unknown) due to frail health, dated July 1904.

MS.7938/11: Ms. of an address by Cantlie on the importance of tropical medicine in the British Empire, attached to draft minutes of a meeting convented by Cantlie in the Colonial Office, 4 Jan 1907, on the possibility of starting a Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and First Annual Report of the Society's Council, dated 1907-1908.

MS.7938/12: Pellagra Investigation Committee: Introduction and statement of objectives by Cantlie, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, dated March 1910.

MS.7938/13: Tables and dinner list for the 'School Dinner' of the London School of Tropical Medicine (Seamen's Hospital Society) University of London, with Cantlie in the Chair, dated October 1910.

MS.7938/14: 'Scott-Skinner': speech in honour of "The Strathspey King" Mr James Scott-Skinner, violin-playing promoter of Scottish music, praising Scottish culture and customs (by Cantlie?), dated 1910s (reference to 'the war' implies 1914-1918).

MS.7938/15: Three letters to James Cantlie regarding his invention and specification for a Protective Face Mask (gas mask), from Allen and Hanbury's Ltd, makers of surgical instruments and sundries, and Southall Brothers and Barclay Ltd, manufacturing chemists, dated May 1915 - June 1915.

MS.7938/16: Draft sermon delivered by Cantlie at St Peters, Vere Street, London, W1, on the British hospital system the benefits to continuing the voluntary system and the perils of infectious diseases. For the [Hospice] Sunday Fund, undated (eference to influenza killing more people in India than in the War on both sides implies c.1919-early 1920s).

MS.7938/17: Letter to Cantlie from William Will, Managing Director of Graphic Publications, Limited, forwarding an invitation from the Scots Club (composed of Scottish newspaper men in London) to be a guest with Sir Harry Lauder, dated 28 January 1921.

MS.7938/18: Programme card of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society 58th Annual Dinner at the Royal College of Surgeons, with notes for a speech written in pencil, by [Colonel Cantlie?], dated May 1949.

MS.7938/19: Photocopies of newspaper and magazine reviews of The Quality of Mercy: The Lives of Sir James and Lady Cantlie by Jean Cantlie Stewart (Allen and Unwin: 1983), with some comments annotated by [Jean Cantlie?], dated 1983-1984.

MS.7938/20: Draft ts., 'The Position of the Gall Bladder' by Cantlie, demonstrating that the gall bladder occupies a central position in the liver. Annotated with corrections, dated late 19th century - early 20th century.

MS.7938/21: Draft ts., 'Sprue. Symptoms, etiology, post-mortem appearances and treatment': article by Cantlie for the Practitioner, undated (mention of a post-mortem in 1899 implies c.1898-1900).

MS.7938/22: Draft ms. poem by Cantlie on Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) in tribute to his achievements, especially regarding malaria, dated early 20th century.

MS.7938/23: Ms. on the dimensions, nature and workings of the liver, by Cantlie. Some faded parts illegible, dated c.1900.

MS.7938/24: Poem by Cantlie on Sir Ronald Ross, the "saviour" from malaria, dated early 20th century.

MS.7938/25: Ts., 'What has Burns done for Scotland?' by Cantlie, for a speech to the [?London Burns Society], dated late 19th century-early 20th century

c.1870-1984

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MS.7938/12: The committee was set up, following a proposal by Louis Sambon, in view of occurrence of pellagra in parts of the British Empire and a feeling that there should be an urgent "thorough scientific enquiry" into its etiology. Members of the Committee included many London School of Tropical Medicine staff plus Sir William Leishman, Sir Patrick Manson, the Italian Ambassador and Henry Wellcome.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

MS.7938/4 has been photographed by Wellcome Images, image number: L0040609