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As an archivist working with a large collection of medical archives it strikes me that they are a rich sourceContinue Reading
Tag: History of medicine
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
Linking Letters Across Archives
Following a recent visit to the Wellcome Library, they are kindly featuring a guest post on some of the medicalContinue Reading
Medicines of the 18th Century
A range of different record types across the Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection used in conjunction with one another demonstrate theContinue Reading
A Doctor’s View of Industrial Manchester
“The lodge-keeper admitted them into a great oblong yard, on one side of which were offices for the transaction ofContinue Reading
The Advent of Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon who practised and lectured for many years in both Edinburgh and Glasgow but heContinue Reading