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Sources Guide: Eyes, Ears, Teeth, Feet

General sources

Eyes

Teeth

Ears

Feet

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

 
General sources

ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH (1907-1974) SA/CMO
Material relating to matters under public health administration of counties, including eye-testing, chiropody, hearing tests and dental services

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SA/BMA
The 'Groups' files include material on ophthalmology, deafness, ENT surgery, dentistry, and chiropody

Donald HUNTER, CBE, FRCP (1898-1977) PP/HUN and Frederick PARKES WEBER, FRCP (1863-1962) PP/FPW
Both these collections contain material on a great variety of conditions: Hunter was particularly interested in occupational and environmentally caused conditions and Parkes Weber in rare diseases, but material extends well beyond these areas

PATIENTS’ ASSOCIATION (f. 1963) SA/PAT
Files relating to patients’ views on chiropody, dental services, fluoridation, etc, c. 1970s–90s

RESEARCH BOARD FOR THE CORRELATION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (f.1942, closed 1956) SA/RBC
Research projects examining physical condition of schoolboys and army recruits, 1948-1955, includes data on vision, hearing and feet

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
Details of day-to-day care and cure in military units can be found in the numerous reports and diaries in the collection, indexed under name of war; a small amount, mainly 19th century, can be found 'Dentistry' and 'Ophthalmology', and there are hospital reports re trench foot, 1940s-1950s in RAMC 2089 and correspondence re marching in RAMC 466/25

ROYAL SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH and predecessors SA/RSP/A/1/12, 15
Minutes of the Dental and Allied Subjects Group, 1961-67; minutes of the Ophthalmic Subjects Group, 1961-67

SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH (f. 1856) SA/SMO
Material relating to concerns over conditions to do with vision, hearing, teeth (including fluoridation) falling within the interests of Medical Officers of Health

WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL MUSEUM WA/HMM
Archives, 1899-1985, include material relating to conditions and treatment of all of these categories

 WELLCOME FOUNDATION WF
Pharmaceutical company made products for conditions in all these categories, for humans and animals, 1890s-1980s

Eyes

Professor Norman ASHTON, CBE, FRS (b. 1913) Ophthalmologist PP/ASH
Correspondence on his research (largely on retrolental fibroplasias, also toxicara canis), and with bodies with which he was associated; manuscript memoirs

ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH OPHTHALMOLOGISTS (1937-1946) SA/ABO
Council Minutes, 1937-1946, and note of meeting setting up the ABO

James BANKART (1834-1902) PP/JBA/C
1 volume of ophthalmic prescriptions, 1845-75

George Robert FRASER (1932-) PP/GRF/C
Material relating to his research on children with severe visual handicap and the causes of blindness, 1957-72

GENERAL OPTICAL COUNCIL (f. 1958) SA/GOC
Records relating to its work regulating the optical professions (dispensing opticians and optometrists), including training, registration, and the promotion of proper professional conduct, 1959-2000

Professor Hamilton HARTRIDGE, FRS (1886-1976) visual physiologist GC/99
Miscellaneous material relating to his important contributions to knowledge of the mechanisms of sight (also hearing) and invention of optical apparatus

KGK Syndicate... London WC1, inventors GC/120
Partnership records and copies of solicitors' letters re claims as to actual inventor of plastic optical lens, 1930s-1940s

W P G KRAEMER, MD, FRCPsych (1911-1983) GC/23
Student notes 'Oculistica' from the University of Siena 1937

MEDICAL EYE CENTRE ASSOCIATION (formerly the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board Association) (f.1929, wound up 1990) SA/MEC
Minutes of AGMs, Executive and Committee meetings, reports and newsletters, subject files re legislation concerning ophthalmic services, administration of Medical Eye Centres, relations with other bodies, publicity, test cards, etc

Teeth

Carlos Paton BLACKER (1895-1975) PP/CPB
One file on fluoridation, 1967

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ORTHODONTICS (f.1907) SA/BSO
Minutes and other records of the Society

Herbert Davies CHALKE, (1897-1979) GC/200
Notebook on fluoridation survey, 1960-1, and talk on fluoridation, 1967

Sidney CHAVE (1914-1985) GC/178
Lecture notes, publications, research materials on fluoridation

Ieuan ELLIS, LD, FRC (d.1954): notebook GC/11
Notebook while studying dentistry at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, before 1941

MEDICAL WOMEN’S FEDERATION (f.1916) SA/MWF
Some files on dental service; career prospects for women dentists (in files of InterProfessional Working Party, 1960s)

Lady (May) MELLANBY MA, DSc (1882-1978), nutritional and dental scientist PP/MEL
Independently of her husband (Sir Edward Mellanby) Lady Mellanby conducted research into the physiology of dentition and the causes of dental disease, and was involved with various dental policy-making bodies: her papers reflect this, and include correspondence with other individuals involved in dental questions

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897-1989), Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics PP/RRM
Material on correct methods of and training in dental anaesthesia, c.1930s-1980s

Herbert John SCHARLIEB (later Shirley), CMG,MD,FRS GC/190
A few letters and testimonials relating to appointment as anaesthetist, Dental Hospital, London, 1891-1901

SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH/ SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE/ SOCIETY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (1856-1997) SA/SMO
Records of the Dental Officers Group, 1967-1974, Dental Committee, 1974-1977, and Fluoridation Study Group, 1958-1983, papers on school dental services within School Health Service Group records, 1943-1989, files on community dental services and training in section L, and (non-Society) published sources, including pictorial material, in section R

R G TORRENS (1903-1981): papers on the dental service, 1942-1964 GC/36
Head Council Minutes and papers of Incorporated Dental Society, 1942-1949; Representative Board Minutes and papers of British Dental Association, 1944-1951; Minutes of the Joint Advisory Dental Council, 1946-1947; Minutes and other papers relating to Appeals under Regulation 18 of the NHS Service Committee and Tribunal Regulations, 1949-1964

Ears

see Hartridge, q.v. under Eyes

Alfred Friederich Amandus DENKER (1863-19??) aural surgeon GC/92
Typescript of translation of Denker's Die Otosklerose (1904) into English by AR Tweedie, c.1908

George Robert FRASER (1932-) PP/GRF/B
Material relating to his research on deaf children and the causes of profound deafness in childhood, 1861-2007

Dorothea Waley SINGER (1882-1964) PP/CJS
Correspondence about deafness and hearing aids with Ministry of Health, consultants, hospitals, manufacturers, etc, 1945-1964

Feet

Arthur Sydney Blundell BANKART MA, MCh, FRCS (1879-1951) Orthopaedic Surgeon PP/ABB
Material relating to the treatment of feet deformities by orthopaedic surgery and methods, 1911-1940s

Surgeon-Captain John Allison PAGE, CBE,RN (1908-1989) GC/131
Records of observations of Allied prisoners of war of the Japanese, on which he based his papers on 'painful feet' syndrome (BMJ, 24 Aug 1946, vol ii, p.260)

See also the Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database, for information on the records of relevant specialist hospitals.