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Sources Guide: Animals: medical and scientific use of

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Receipt Book: includes notes on the 'virtues' of animals, late C14th MS.666

Bestiary: 'Della natura e proprietà delli animali', illustrated, mid-C15th MS.132

Ludovicus De Cendratis: Opus naturae rerum compendisoum et eruditum..., includes notes on the nature and medical properties of animals, 1474 MS.187

Pharmacopoeia: 'De Aquis stillatitiis arte Chymica extractis', includes animal substances, late C16th MS.MSL/66/2

Materia Medica: vegetable, mineral and animal substances used in medicine, mid C17th MS.481

Preparations: includes waters from "Animals & their parts"; "Oyles", animal; "Salts," animal, c. 1693 MS.MSL/50/2

Alphabetical lists of Materia Medica: including animals, early C18th MS.MSL/13/3

Alston's Lectures on the Materia Medica: including animals and parts of animals, c. 1720 MS.MSL/98, 101

N Lemery: 'Tractat universal de drogas simples', including animal products, 1733 MS.3232

Treatise on Materia Medica: Part 2, 'Zoologia, or of Animalls' deals with entire animals and parts and secretions of animals, c. 1735 MS.MSL/27/1

N de Loques: 'L'Alchymie ... contenant la véritable Préparation des ... Animal', 1749 MS.3320

Lectures on chemistry: Animal substances, c. 1758 MS.MSL/94/4

G F Rouelle: student lecture notes, Chimie: Règne végétal, règne animal, c. 1760 MS.4276

Lectures on Chemistry: includes oils, animal, C18th MS.MSL/96/1

Pharmaceutical receipts: (in Italian and Latin), including preparations from animal substances, mid 18th MS.3874

M J de Herrarte: plant and animal remedies used by the Indians of Guatemala, 1784 MS.Amer 40

Francisco Ochoa y Cadena: 'Libro de Medecina y Botanica' includes descriptions of animal materia medica (Mexico), 1867 MS.Amer 115

Research Defence Society: Minutes, correspondence, publications, photographs etc re the promotion of legitimate and properly regulated use of animals for research purposes, 1880s-1980s. Some material restricted access SA/RDS

W W Keen: Correspondence, notes, articles and photographs re his opposition to the anti-vivisection movement, c.1885-1927 GC/53
Sir Felix Semon: experiments relating to epilepsy produced in guinea pigs, 1886, pen sketches and photographs of animal brains, n.d. MS.5276

W L Brown: the use of animal substances for the cure of disease, c. 1889-1905 MS.8226

Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine: reports, correspondence, papers, press cuttings re the vivisection controversy after the establishment of the Lister Institute, 1889-99; testing records on the use of horses for serum production, including photographs, 1915-51 SA/LIS

O Hoffman: Notes on the history of animal substances used in medicine, 1909 MS.2855

Sir E A Sharpey Schafer: Press cuttings and scrapbooks relating to anti-vivisection controversy, 1899-1930 PP/ESS

Wellcome Archive: Some material on animal experimentation among records of Bureau of Scientific Research, 1913-38 WA/BSR, and of the Tropical Research Laboratories, 1899-1943 WA/TRL

Sir E and Lady Mellanby: Home Office certificates, correspondence and statistical information re animal experiments, 1910-62; notebooks, papers and correspondence re experiments into diet, vitamins, teeth and dentition using dogs and other animals, 1910s-60s PP/MEL

Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society: Minutes of Executive Council, 1911-6 GC/52

Lind-af-Hageby Libel Case: Notes of court proceedings in the cause celebre case for the antivivisection movement of Lind-af-Hageby vs Astor and others, 1913 GC/89

Sir T Lewis: correspondence re animal supply, 1920-35 PP/LEW

Prof E B Verney: Notebooks of experiments using animals, 1920s-50s; press cuttings from court case when Verney was acquitted of using a stolen dog, 1926-7 PP/EBV

Prof Hans Grüneberg: correspondence relating to his work in mammalian genetics research, principally using mice, including issues of supply of mice, maintenance, and construction of mouseries; also his work on snail genetics, 1922-1982 PP/GRU

A W Haggis: Birds in medicine, c. 1930 MS.8287

Eugenics Society: Correspondence etc relating to research funded by the Society, particularly of J R Baker and S Zuckerman, into reproductive biology and contraception using animals, 1930s. Available with permission of Galton Institute only SA/EUG
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Dame H B Fell: Notebooks relating to experiments on animals, 1930s-40s PP/HBF

Professor P C C Garnham: work on malarial and other parasites in various animal hosts 1930s–70s PP/PCG

Professor Ciprian Emmanuel Amoroso: materials relating to his work on reproductive biology using various animals, including cats, cows, alpacas, penguins, 1930s-70s, and in particular his research on manatees, 1960s-80s, and involvement with the Cayman Turtle Farm, 1970s-80s; file relating to Huntingdon Research Centre, 1970s PP/AMO

Marthe Vogt: laboratory notebooks re research into physiology of the suprarenal gland, sympathin and serotonergic systems, 1930s-80s (Section B); correspondence regarding use of animals in experiments, quality and source of animals, Home Office licensing under Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, 1930s-80s (Section C) PP/MLV

Sir Harold Perceval Himsworth: laboratory notebooks on diabetes research using animal subjects, 1933-40 PP/HPH/A.1

Prof RA Peters, British Anti-Lewisite research: material 1941-53 on the development of anti-chemical warfare agents, which included extensive animal testing (guinea pigs, rabbits, monkeys and horses) of BAL ointment GC/197/A

Sir P B Medawar: Laboratory books, 1940s, papers on the use of mice in ageing and diet experiments, 1960s-80s; reprints of scientific papers, many to do with the use of animals in experiments on skin and grafting, 1930s-80s PP/PBM

Prof Sir A Haddow: Research notebooks relating to grafting, operations, injections etc using animals, 1940s-50s PP/HAD

Physiological Society: correspondence, papers and reports re the use of animals in experiments; papers re parliamentary acts and bills; minutes and correspondence from the Ethical Sub-committee; press cuttings, radio and tv programmes re vivisection, sport and cruelty to animals, 1940s-80s. Some items restricted access SA/PHY

R A McCance and Elsie Widdowson: material relating to their research into bodily composition at different stages of development and in different species, 1940s-70s GC/97

Strangeways Research Laboratory: Administrative papers relating to licences for research animals, rationing and the feeding of animals, 1940s-50s; correspondence with the Laboratory Animals Bureau, 1954-6 and individuals from FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments), 1967-70 SA/SRL

Professor Cyril Keele: experimental notebook of his pain research using guineapigs and rabbits, 1943-5 MS.8755

Family Planning Association: material on the use of xenopus toads for pregnancy testing, 1948-65 SA/FPA/A3/13

Sir W D Paton: Papers include material generated by his involvement with the Research Defence Society, contributions to Parliamentary Committees on the use of animals in research, and relating to his book Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research (1984), 1948-93 PP/WDP

H Foy and A Kondi: Papers re the use of a colony of baboons in Kenya for the study of vitamin B deprivation, 1950s-70s PP/FAK

Norman Heatley: material on animal experimentation, in particular work at the Department of Poultry Husbandry, University of California Berkeley, on pigeons and chickens, also work on pigs and rabbits, and some material on the use of rats in experimental research, c. 1950s–70s PP/NHE

J H Baron: Articles, correspondence and photographs relating to the Brown Dog of University College [London], 1955-6, 1985-6 GC/199

R J Hetherington: file on animal work relating to oral contraceptives, 1960s-80s PP/RJH

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: Comments for the Committee of Inquiry into experiments on animals, 1960s-80s,1963-4 WTI/RST

Biochemical Society: material relating to research use of animals, evidence to committees and commissions, etc 1970s-80s SA/BIO

Genetic Alliance UK: publication re use of genetically-engineered animals in research, c. 2000s SA/GIG/C/2/18

See also leaflets Veterinary Medicine, Animal Diseases, Zoonoses ( pre-1800 and post-1800) and Animals: Miscellaneous