Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons].

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date:
1985
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Credit: Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Joseph LISTER, 1st Baron Lister [1827-1912] Photogravure. Lister's bequest of some 2,500 volumes formed the last major single accession to the Society's Library. The remaining portion of his library was sold by Messrs. Sotheran in 1913 and substantial collections of books from this sale are preserved at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and King's College Hospital Medical School. The books bequeathed to the Medical Society were at first shelved as a special collection but later dispersed into the library's general stock. Those now at the Wellcome Institute are for the most part of the 19th Century and include volumes from the library of James Syme. Wellcome Iconographic Collection. Joseph LISTER, 1st Baron Lister Notes of a course of lectures on physiology delivered by William Sharpey at University College London in 1849, with later notes and additions also in Lister's hand. [M.S.L. MS. 80.] FREDERICK III, Emperor of Germany The illness of the Emperor Frederick III. Described from official sources. [Translated by R. Brudenell Carter.] [London. 1888?] This translation of the official German account by Robert Brudenell Carter (President of the Medical Society in 1886/7) was prepared for a London newspaper but never published. Carter preserved this set of proof sheets as the only surviving copy. -17-