A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1987
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL ARCHIVES CENTRE The Contemporary Medical Archives Centre was established in 1979 to col- lect and catalogue the papers and records of 20th century British medical practitioners and scientists, and to build up information on relevant collec- tions held elsewhere. The archive reflects all aspects of modern medicine, from research leading to major scientific advances, through clinical practice and public health, to unorthodox and fringe medicine. Over 200 collections have been given to or deposited with the Centre. The items on display in this case show the wide variety of material held by the Centre, both in format (manuscript letters, typescripts, photographs, and tape recordings) and in content (from the research papers of the emi- nent to routine administrative records). Personal Papers 1. Sir Henry Dale, OM,GBE,FRS [1875-1968] Notebooks on experiments at Hampstead, 1913-1916: from a small group of diverse papers pertaining to Dale, received from various hands at dif- ferent dates. The bulk of Dale's papers are at the Royal Society. 2. Charles Joseph Singer, FRCP [1876-1960] Letter to Singer from Sigmund Freud dated 31 Oct 1938. Singer was an historian of science and medicine; he and his wife, Dorothea, devoted much energy to helping Jewish refugees during the 1930s. 3. Noel G. Harris, FRCP [1897-1963] Two drawings of cats by Louis Wain [1860-1939], artist famous for his pic- tures of cats: done while Wain was a patient at Springfield Hospital, where Dr Harris was on the medical staff, 1923-39. General Collections 4. Prof Ronald Hare, MD [1899-1986] Report by Hare on 'The scientific value of experiments of a bacteriological nature carried out in concentration camps in Germany during the War', with related correspondence, 1947-48. Hare's other papers include material on the discovery of penicillin. 5. Ivy Keess, MRCS,LRCP [1885?-1953?] Dr Keess was a woman medical missionary practising in India. This resolution,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456852_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
