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Sources Guide: Maritime medicine
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
Naval Miscellany: documents relating to British naval and maritime affairs, c.1596-1846, n.d. MS 7097
Barber-Surgeons: Memoranda re the Barber-Surgeons collected by Sir D'Arcy Power, inc list of sea-surgeons, 1707-19, documents re care of sick and wounded seamen, 1692-1704, and correspondence on a dispute with the Navy Office concerning examination of sea-surgeons, 1742-3 MS 627/3,13-17,20-21
John Murray: journal as ship's surgeon on HMS. Conqueror, 1751-9 MS 7840
Mr Pigot, naval surgeon: journal of a journey from Bengal to England, 1757-9 MS 3906
French ship's log: La Brilolle from Ile d'Aix to Cayenne and the West Indies and back, 1764-5 MS 7099
Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (1805), Comptroller of the Navy: observations on two reports on conditions at Haslar Hospital, Gosport, c.1780 MS 5992
Horatio, Viscount Nelson: 15 vols of papers re ships under his command, 1780-1805, and letters, etc, 1794-1804 MSS 3667-81, 7362/1-5
William Cornwallis: letters and orders from the Navy Victualling Commissioners and the Admiralty, 1788-95 MS 6813
Naval Hospital Barbados: ‘State of …’ 25 Jan and 1 Feb 1789, with letter from John Crawford, surgeon, concerning leave MS 8401
Thomas Forrest: 'proposal for a better mode of victualling the Navy in warm climates...', 1789 MS 1721/6
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville: letters from Robert Blair and Gilbert Blane, commissioners of the Sick and Hurt Board, 1790-1804; memorandum from John Millar, 1792 on medical arrangements on East India Company ships MSS 5120/1-14, 5121/1-3
Thomas Mayne: letter to Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton concerning quarantine of ship Fortune at Lisbon, 1794 MS 7313/4
Navy Victualling Board: letters and orders to local agents for provisioning HM ships, 1796-1815 MSS 6814-8
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: Several items on Naval Medical Services (see under this heading in 'Index'), 1799-1982 RAMC
Chatham Chest: certificates re disabilities and wounds of various seamen, 1802-13 MS 5994
Sir William Beatty: report on death of Nelson, 1805 MS 5141; letters to Lady Hamilton, 1806-11, n.d. MS 6242
French naval surgeon: journal of voyages on numerous vessels to Spain, the East Indies, Caribbean etc, 1808-16 MS 4956
Anonymous medical officer: journal compiled aboard HMS Salsette, Eastern Mediterranean, 1811-12 MS 6957
Prosper Garnot, French naval surgeon: album of illustrations of skin diseases, c.1815 MS 2474
Greenwich Hospital: certificates of good conduct issued to Frederick Bedford, third lieutenant at Greenwich Hospital, 1817 MS 5315
Anonymous ship's surgeon: journal on board East India company vessel William Miles, 1819-21 MS 7114
Barry Edward O'Meara, naval surgeon: letters, 1820-1831, n.d. MS 7378
Robert McCormick, naval surgeon: diaries etc., 1824-53 MSS 3356-82
Fleetwood Buckle, naval surgeon: autograph album, 1824-65, n.d. MS 5656; diaries on board various ships in Atlantic, Pacific and Home waters, 1866-70 MSS 1395-1404
Sir George Ballingall, Professor of Military Surgery, Edinburgh: memoranda received on naval medicine and naval punishments, c.1827-43, n.d. MS 6905/12,25, 38,44,50
Naval Hospital, Jamaica: list of assistant-surgeons at Hospital, 1828-51, in letter from John Watson, Surgeon-in-charge, 1852 MS 6233
Thomas Hunter: certificate and commission as naval surgeon, 1829, 1832 MS 7527
Deptford Victualling Yard: papers relating to JM Brydone, surgeon, 1832-4 MS 6960
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross, Arctic explorer: correspondence, 1828-53 MS 7403
James Ormiston McWilliam, naval surgeon: letters and papers, 1839-62, n.d. MSS 6829-32
Amédée Ernest Bathélémy Mouchez, French naval officer: 3 letters, n.d. mid-C19th MS 7342/160-2
Walter Scott: letter of appointment as surgeon of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co steamship Tweed, 1843, and inventory of surgeon's stores on board, 1841 MS 6025
Henry Piers, naval surgeon: journals: on board HMS Cleopatra on anti-slavery patrol, Indian Ocean, 1844-7 MS 5990; on board HMS Satellite in Pacific, 1856-9 MS 6110
Thomas Graham, assistant naval surgeon: diary on board troopship Apollo to China, 1849-50 MS 5462
Naval surgeons' casebook: aboard HMS St George at Devonport, 1851-3 MS 5991
David Geddes, naval surgeon: appointment as Surgeon Superintendent on convict ship Oriental Queen, 1852 MS 5221
Alfred Bowyer Barton, P&O Co ship's surgeon: journals 1853-7, including transportation of sick and wounded during Crimean War MSS 5958-63
Edmund Waller, naval surgeon: commissions, 1855, 1864 MS 5995
John Temperley Gray, P&O Co ship's surgeon: testimonials and notebook, 1864-88 MSS 5874-5
Harry Hayter Ramsdale: diary while acting as ship's surgeon on Clifton, an emigrant ship to Queensland, 1861-2 MS 5324
Victor Henri de Rochas, French naval physician: 3 letters, 1861-76 MS 7469/177-9
Herbert Richard Bracey, P&O Co ship's surgeon: diaries of voyages, letters home, 1872-1874 MSS 5287-92
Sir James Cantlie: description of voyage from Malta to Constantinople, notes, etc, on medical inspection of shipping, c. 1870s MSS 6932-3
Ship ventilation: descriptions of ventilation systems on various ships, 1878, n.d. MS 5993
Frederick Parkes Weber: material on health benefits of sea air and voyages, c.1880-1963 PP/FPW
Henry Liston: 'Log or diary of.... whilom of the Merchant Service BISN [British India Steam Navigation Co] and Anchor Line', 1880-93 MS 6103
Naval Fleet Surgeon George McLean: diary of the illness of (Admiral) HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1889 MS 7105
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: Files relating to naval medicine displays and special exhibitions, 1900s-1950s WA/HMM
James Randal Hutchinson, Ministry of Health: Files on Port Health Administration 1900-48 PP/JRH
JEL Bashford, RN: notebooks and diary aboard HMS Virago, 1907-18 MSS 5733-40
Donald Mars Mophett Ross: correspondence and papers while medical officer on Hong Bee, based at Singapore, 1910-16 MS 6117
Surgeon-Captain Montague Henry Knapp: Papers relating to service as Senior Medical Officer to XI Destroyer Flotilla, HMS Blake, 1915-17; medical records (largely relating to syphilis), 1910-17; documents from German naval surgeon; photographs GC/85
Rosa Louise Hunt: 'Journal of a Red Cross VAD member on Special Service during the Great War' (in Malta), 1915-16 GC/40
British Medical Association: Files c.1915-c.1960 include some on Port Sanitary Officers, and fees for examination and treatment of sailors SA/BMA [The British Medical Association retains the bulk of its archives]
British Social Hygiene Council, f. 1914 as the National Council for Combatting Venereal Diseases: minutes of Services Committee, Subcommittee of the Mercantile Marine Conference, Standing Conference on the Brussels Agreement, Port Welfare Committee, London Port Welfare (Advisory) Council, 1918-41 SA/BSH
Surgeon Lt-Cmdr John Stephen McGrath: Notes on symptoms and prescriptions in Wellcome's Medical Diary 1919: War Emergency Edition GC/24
Society of Medical Officers of Health Records of Services (Hygiene) Group, 1918-46, some material on Port Health issues SA/SMO
Surgeon Captain 'Peter' Thomas Latimer Cleave: Lecture notes and advice to naval personnel and relating to his career in the Royal Navy, 1920s-1960s PP/TLC
Sir William Drummond Paton: research for Royal Navy on underwater physiology and pharmacology (deep diving, submarines, etc), 1930-91 PP/WDP
Robert George Ranyard West: Papers include work at the Dreadnaught Seamen's Hospital, 1930s PP/RRW
(Josephine) Letitia Denny Fairfield: British Social Hygiene Council Commission to Malta, 1930s GC/193
Richard Ernest Cornish Copithorne: diary as surgeon on Blue Funnel Line cargo vessels, 1934-5 MSS 7679-80
Katharine Harman: journal on British Medical Association Round the World Tour, 1935 MS 7394
Sir Robert Macintosh: consultant in anaesthetics to the Navy, research on escape apparatus for submarines, 1939-60 PP/RRM
Sir Harold Whittingham: some manuals on survival at sea, 1940s PP/HEW
Surgeon-Captain John Allison Page: Records and reports as PoW in Hong Kong and Japan WWII GC/131
SS Parthia Surgeon's Memorandum Book, 1945-1966: Duties of ship's surgeons and other medical personnel on Cunard liner GC/230
Professor Donald Breadalbane Blacklock: report on malaria in ships in West Africa, compiled 1947 for the Medical History of the War GC/215
R A McCance: material relating to his work with the Medical Research Council Survival at Sea Subcommittee, 1940s-80s GC/97
See also Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database and Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey for relevant material elsewhere.
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