New Catalogues Online!
With the culmination of a year-long cataloguing project to tackle some of the Library’s science and medical collections a numberContinue Reading
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MHAW – The 18th/19th Century Approach
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2016, the latest blog from the Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection looks at someContinue Reading
Cholera Comes to Manchester
“The characteristic symptoms that define this disease are a constant vomiting and purging, the matter thrown up bilious attended withContinue Reading
The Cat’s Post Mortem
Alongside the work to catalogue the Medical Manuscripts Collection the papers of renowned 20th century haematologist John Frederick Wilkinson (1897-1998)Continue Reading
Charles Clay – “Father of Ovariotomy”
The majority of the manuscripts that form the Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection are arranged around 20 individual Manchester medical menContinue Reading
Introduction of Anaesthesia
Today it is difficult to imagine undergoing surgery without anaesthetic, but up to the mid-19th century this was the onlyContinue Reading