“Peculiar and Marvellous”: A Petite Exhibit on Menstruation in the Rylands Gallery #1
This is the first of two blog posts to accompany a display in Rylands Gallery. This first post explores 19thContinue Reading
Tag: History of medicine
Visual Material in Medical Records
The patient case files of neurosurgeon Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (JCN) are rich in visual materials which enriches the textual informationContinue Reading
Radical Surgery: The Frontal Lobectomy
Neurosurgeon Sir Geoffrey Jefferson was a great exponent of the frontal lobectomy in the treatment of brain tumours, a procedureContinue Reading
Visual Medical Collections
Work has recently begun to catalogue the work of medical artist Dorothy Davison (1890-1984). The collection contains approximately 400 itemsContinue Reading
Neurosurgery & Long-term Medical Effects of WWI
The case files of neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson survive for patients admitted between 1927 and 1940 and inevitably a number of hisContinue Reading
Incidences of Syphilis Amongst Jefferson’s Neurosurgery Patients
There are a handful of incidents of syphilis, more specifically neurosyphilis, amongst Geoffrey Jefferson’s neurosurgery patient files. Given the prevalenceContinue Reading
Radioactive Thorotrast in 1930s Diagnostic Radiology
Thorotrast was a radiographic contrast agent first introduced in the late 1920s which contained the radioactive compound thorium dioxide. OriginallyContinue Reading
Radium and Radiotherapy in Neurological Cases
Working through the many patient case files of leading neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson there are a number of particularly significant topicsContinue Reading
More Medical Archives…
Efforts to catalogue the University’s many and varied medical archive collections are continuing in earnest. August saw the successful endContinue Reading
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