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Sources Guide: Blood (A&M)

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

Miscellanea Medica XVIII: includes illustration of blood–letting man, early C14th MS.544

Leech–Books, VI: regimen for blood–letting, late C14th–early C15th MS.409

Leech–Books, III: includes poem on blood–letting, early C15th MS.406

Anatomical and Medical Texts: blood–letting figures with astrological signs, c. 1420 MS.49/3

Tables and treatises on the computation of the calendar, astronomy and astrology: medical recipes include to staunch blood, c. 1425 Ms.8515

Miscellanea XIII: Computus chiromentralis contains astrological notes on blood–letting with figure, 1451, directions, etc MS.508

Lanfranc of Milan: Treatise of powders, pills, etc, mid–C15th, includes materials on blood–letting MS.397/3

Miscellanea Medica XXII: collection of medical works including table of good and bad days for blood–letting, mid C15th MS.548

Albicus (Sigismund), Regimen hominis: table of zodiacal signs, etc in relation to blood–letting, 1471 MS.549/1

“Practica" (by Bartholomaeus Salernitanus [& others]?): includes instructions for blood–letting, c. 1475 MS.438

Leech–Books, I: includes instructions and diagrams for blood–letting, late C15th MS.404

Leech–Books, VIII: Almanac: with directions in Latin for purging, blood–letting, etc, late C15th MS.411/6

Hieronymus de Manfredis: includes notes on blood–letting, late C15th MS.468

Miscellanea Medica IV: contains Arnoldus de Villanova’s treatise on the virtues of human blood, late C15th MS.534

Dominicus de Swatz, Arzneibuch: includes instructions for blood–letting,, c. 1500 MS.766

Johann Litchenberger and others: includes material on blood (in Italian), 1504 MS.425

Arzneibuch: physician’s handbook including notes on bloodletting, 1524–c.1550 MS.93

Giuseppe de Mogliettis: Altissimus liber et profundus ubi continentur multa segreta [sic] chimica, alchimica et de Lapide Philosophico, c. 1550–1659, includes some material on blood MS.563

De Aquis stillatitiis arte Chymica extractis: includes substances of animal origin including blood, late C16th MS.MSL.66/2

Lectures on Anatomy and Midwifery: lectures on the functions of the heart and the blood, the blood vessels of the brain, etc mid C17th MS.MSL.5/2–3

A Pharmacopoeia or Dispensatory: includes account of a cure by blood–letting, 1686 MS.MSL.15/3

Bernardino Ramazzini: manuscript defending Harvey’s theories of the circulation of the blood from attacks by Homobonus Piso, c. 1691 MS.4040

The Anatomical Section: includes sections on the heart and the circulatory system, c. 1692 MS.MSL.3/1

A Treatise on the Pulse: c. late 17th–early C18th, in Italian MS.MSL.37

Arte dell' alchimia: includes short tract on the virtues of human blood, late C17th MS.984

Jean Chastelain: lectures including extensive discussion of the circulation of the blood, c. 1700 MS.1553

Pferd–Arzt: Collection of veterinary receipts, etc, including illustration of blood–letting, early C18th MS.3872

James Jurin: Correspondence with John Woodward on a dispute concerning experiments on the gravity of blood, 1719 MS.6144

Maria Theresia von Rodwitz: receipt book including some pages on blood–letting, 1716 MS.4240

Notes on Anatomy and Materia Medica: including veins and blood–vessels, 1727 MS.MSL.9/2

Robert Whytt: student medical notebook, 1732, including On respiration and circulation of blood; manuscript of Observations on the nature, causes, and cure of those disorders which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric, including 'strengthening the vessels & making better blood...' mid–C18th MS.6859, MS.6877/3

Amedeo Baldanzi: Collection of extracts, notes, letters, 1737–66, including on the circulation of the blood MS.1041

John Hunter: lectures on The Vascular System, Clinical and Surgical Aphorisms, particularly in regard to arteries, aneurisms and wounds, C18th MS.MSL.40/7, 12

Medical Lectures: including on the circulatory system, C18th MS.MSL.128

Lectures on the Practice of Medicine and the Materia Medica: including The solid and liquid constituents of the body, the blood, urine… etc, C18th MS.MSL.77/1

Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften Vol III: includes material on blood and circulation of the blood, 1754–7 MS.1140

Lectures on Midwifery: including on Placenta, blood–supply and menstruation, and Floodings, c. 1756 MS.MSL.105

Lectures on Chemistry: Animal Substances, including blood, mid–C18th MS.MSL.94/4

Malcolm Flemyng's Course of Physiology: includes De Fabrica et Actione Arteriæ et Venae; De Natura Sanguinis et reliquorum Humorum Universalicum Corporis Humani, and other material on the blood, circulation, etc, mid–C18th MS.MSL.115–117

Pietro Giacomo Belli: Della sistole e diastole del cuore, mid–C18th MS.1123

Delle malattie del corpo umano: by an author strongly opposed to blood–letting, mid–C18th MS.3514

Raymond Fils Lafourcade: L'art de saigner accommodé aux principes de la circulation du sang, c. 1775 MS.3147

Recueil de recettes et de secrets: including long section on blood–letting, 1782–4 MS.4158

Hugh Smith: Formulae medicamentorum: or, a compendium of the practice of physic. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood letting, late C18th MS.6882

F. T. Bidault de Villiers: Note on blood–letting [1801?] MS.1164/3

Raffaello Moreschini: collection of six 'Discorsi' on physiological subjects, including blood, 1802 MS.3629

George Harvey: 'Arteriologia metrica, or a description of the arteries of the human body in verse, by Bardus Scalpelli.’, early C19th MS.5470

William Prout: Miscellanea: collection of extracts from various scientific journals includes material on blood, c. 1815 MS.4017

Gilbert Breschet: Histoire des phlegmasies des vaisseaux ou de l'angite. 1re Mémoire: de l'artérite, c. 1825 MS.1348

Jacques Armand Eudes–Deslongchamps: anonymous student's notes of lectures, containing 'De la circulation dans la série animale', 1844 MS.2307

Sir William Withey Gull: clinical notes on effusions of blood into brain, 1846–9 MS.2655

Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson: notes for lectures on diseases of the blood, c. 1855 MS.4204

Jean Baptiste André Dumas: Note sur la constitution du lait et du sang, 1871 MS.2231

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: pamphlet by Dr E A Parkes on Harvey's discovery of circulation of the blood, 1876; papers relating to blood transfusion during World War II, 1940s and 1970s. See subject index under ‘Anatomy’ and ‘Blood Transfusion’ for further details. RAMC

Sir Michael Foster: correspondence with Leonard Charles Wooldridge, concerning the latter's research on coagulation, 1880s MS.8377

William Dobinson Halliburton: notebooks of research ‘Blood of invertebrate animals. Physiological Laboratory, University College, London, 1885’, and 'Analysis of Pathological Effusions…. The Proteids of white corpuscles, muscles, etc’, 1884–8, 'Laboratory work K(ing's) C(ollege) L(ondon)… On blood pressure’, 1899–1902 MS.2714–5, 2719

Wellcome Foundation: records of the pharmaceutical company include material on blood products, sera, preparations for the prevention or alleviation of clotting etc, 1890s–90s WF

Frederick Parkes Weber: material relating to blood, blood disorders, diseases of the blood, bloodletting, 1890s–50s PP/FPW

Joseph Everett Dutton: Diary: Gambia malaria expedition, 1901 includes identification for the first time of a trypanosome in the blood of man MS.2248

Joseph Everett Dutton and John Lancelot Todd: Journey with Captain Sangster through British Kommbo, 1902; to ascertain the presence and prevalance of blood parasites in human beings and animals MS.2253

Charles Donovan: Miscellaneous notes: blood–examinations from patients, Kala–azar, birds, etc, 1902–13; Album containing water–colour drawings of blood cells infected with malaria and other diseases, 1902–5 MS.2208, MS.5692

Wellcome Archives: Historical Medical Museum: include material on blood–letting and the history of blood transfusion, c. 1913–37 WA/HMM

Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax: B[lood] P[ressure] and Pulse during moderate cycling, 1919–1922 MS.2007

William Cash Reed: popular lecture, ‘The Circulation of the Blood’, c. 1920 MS.1717/9

Ralph Ambrose Kekwick: material relating to his research on blood plasma, transfusion, haemophilia, etc, 1920s–90s PP/KEK

Blood Transfusion Donor Records: British Red Cross Society and London Blood Transfusion Society transfusion certificates, 1926–39, and reports on transfusion recipients, 1920s–30s; records of blood transfusions from the British Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service, 1929–36 GC/261

MRC Blood Group Unit:: records on blood group research 1927–93, the majority generated under the directorship of Robert Race (Director 1946–73) and Ruth Sanger (Director 1974–84): general correspondence, 1935–84; Race’s research papers on human genetic markers, late 1930s / early 1940s; blood grouping research papers, 1942–93; photographs of BGU staff and colleagues, 1927–circa 1980s SA/BGU

Robert Gwyn MacFarlane: experimental notes; reports; correspondence; articles relating to his work on blood coagulation and haemophilia, 1930s–70s PP/RGM

Sir Ronald Bodley Scott: clinical haematology notes, including material on cases at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1950s; unpublished papers and lectures, 1930s–80s PP/RBS

Lilian Gertrude Ping: Research Notes on the History of Blood Transfusion, Phlebotomy, etc, c. 1930s MS.8277

Dr David Keilin and Dr Joan Keilin: research on aspects of biochemistry of blood and related substances, 1930s-70s SA/BIO/Q

Brenda Morrison: memoir 'Reminiscences of a woman doctor, 1933–56' contains descriptions of developments in contemporary medicine, including blood transfusion GC/240

Henry Foy and Athena Kondi: records of haematological research into vitamin B deficiencies, 1963–77; surveys of anaemia and sickle cell anaemia in Mozambique, Kenya, Sudan, India, 1951–74; survey of tropical sprue, 1962–69; extensive publications particularly on blackwater fever and anaemias in the tropics, 1935–89; photographic material, 1940s–80s PP/FAK

David Fraser Fraser–Harris: Transfusion of Blood, notes, 1935 MS.8235

Robert Race and Ruth Sanger: material, including research notes, lectures and involvement with societies and organisations, relating to their work on the genetics of blood grouping, 1939-99 PP/SAR

Dame Janet Vaughan: material on work with the Emergency Blood Transfusion Service, 1939, including Blood Transfusion Report GC/186

Arthur Ernest Mourant: Correspondence; research papers; lectures and writings relating to his work in the Blood Group Reference Laboratory, the Blood Group Centre and his publication The Distribution of the Human Blood Groups, 1940s–80s PP/AEM

Blood Transfusion: correspondence; reports; posters; notes and publications concerning the liaison between the Lister Institute, the Medical Research Council and the Ministry of Health over arrangement of and publicity for the Blood Transfusion Service, 1943–49; photos of Minister of Health's party for Blood Transfusion Service, 1954 GC/107

Hedwig Lehmann: nursing notebooks include notes on the circulation of the blood and blood generally, haemorrhage, blood transfusion, and blood groups, 1943–5 MSS.8599–8600

Max Neuberger: short paper on Intravenous Injection of Drugs and Transfusion of New Blood, c. 1945 MS.8291

British Microcirculation Society: minutes, 1963–90; secretary’s correspondence, including material on setting up the European Microcirculation Society, 1963–84; photographs and 16mm films, 1950s–60s SA/BMS

Arthur Edward de la Tour Mallett: "The management of Hypertension in General Practice", 1952–3 MS.8320

Fred Stratton: papers relating to his work in the Blood Transfusion Service and his research in haematology, 1959–2001 PP/STR

John Angus Black: report summarising course on amnioscopy and foetal blood analysis held Nov 1964 by E Saling and his assistants, Neukolln Hospital in Berlin MS.8098/3

British Medical Association: file relating to blood supplies for private nursing homes, 1969 SA/BMA/B.69

Sir Richard Doll: file on the Haemophilia Centre, 1973 PP/DOL/A/1/18

Sir John Ridley Pattison: papers relating to his work with the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), 1994-c.2009, includes concerns that it could be in the national blood supply PP/JPN