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Papers of Sir William Leishman, bound into a volume

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Comprises:
<li>RAMC/563/1: Letter re enteric among British troops in Malta. With charts, 1909.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/2: Statistics re typhoid among British troops in Malta, and the effects of inoculation, 1909.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/3: Abstract of W.B. Alcock's "Vaccination for typhoid fever by living sensibilised B.T.", from The Lancet, 24 August 1912.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/4: Leishman's notes re meetings of the Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa), 1912-1913.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/5: List of yellow fever references, c.1912.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/6: Abstracts, etc., on yellow fever, c.1912.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/7: Ms. notes on the results of yellow fever experiments on guinea pigs, 1914.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/8: Leishman's report on the suggested experiment of game-destruction to combat trypanosomiasis, and summary of points for and against the experiment, Early 20th century.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/9: Abstracts from works re malaria and blackwater fever, Early 20th century.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/10: 5 letters from Ronald Ross to Leishman re kala-azar research, 1903-1904.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/11: Notes on Major H.E. Shortt's researches into kala-azar, 1922.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/12: Progress report of the Kala-azar Commission, with accompanying letters, 1926.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/13: Temperature chart, marked "My attack of Malta Fever" by Leishman, Early 20th century.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/14: Notes and memoranda re research into tuberculosis by Leishman and Dr. Bulloch, 1914.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/15: Suggestions by Sir Almroth Wright as to procedure to be followed in connection with proposals for Medical Research, 1914.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/16: Notes of meetings, visits, etc., of the Medical Research Committee, 1913-1914.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/17: Notes - suggestions for research, Early 20th century.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/18: Notes re visits made with Lord Moulton for the Medical Research Committee, 1914.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/19: Extract from The Lancet re meeting of the Tropical Medicine Section of the British Medical Association, 1913.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/20: Notes re Leishmaniasis, Early 20th century.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/21: Notes on the report of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, 1911.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/22: Notes re leprosy, Early 20th Century.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/23: Abstract of Max Moszkowski's work on Beri-beri, 1909.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/24: Abstract of H.T. Rickets's work on Rocky Mountain Fever, 1909.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/25: Notes on lectures at St. Mary's re typhoid, relapsing fever, etc., 1922.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/26: Notes re meeting of the pathological section of the Army Medical Advisory Board's research committee, 21 May, mainly re gonococcal infections, 1912.</li>
<li>RAMC/563/27: Army Medical Advisory Board report on the clinical value of Burri's method of detecting the treponema pallidum, 1912.</li>

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