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Sources Guide: Neurology and the Neurosciences
The rich archival and manuscript collections of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine (which also holds substantial published sources in this area) include:
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
Individual Manuscript items: letters, lecture notes, student notes, lab notebooks, case material etc of the following - Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738); Jacques Lazerme (1676-1756); John Beridge (1743-1788); Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845); Louis Léon Rostan (1790-1866); Pierre L C Dumont de Monteux (1802-1883); William Budd (1811-1880); Joseph von Schneller
(1811-1885); Thomas Scattergood (1825-1900); Karl Friedrich Mosler (1831-1911); Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1913); Otto Ludwig Adolph Seeligmüller (1837-1912); George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928); Friedrich Schultze (1848-?); Joseph Jules Déjerine (1849-1917); Sir Felix Semon (1849-1921); Paul Richer (1849-1933); Robert Steiner, Freiherr von Pfungen (1850-1917);
Theodore Dyke Acland (1851-1931); Sir James Cantlie (1851-1926); Sir Frederick Walker Mott (1853-1926); Giovanni Vitali (1855-1931); Albert Mathieu (1855-1917); Jamieson Boyd Hurry (1857-1930); Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916); Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952); Hermann Oppenheim (1858-1919); Achille Souques (1860-1944); William Aldren Turner (1864-1945); (Dame) Louisa
Brandreth Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925); Lyudvig Martinovich Puusepp (1875-1942); Thierry de Martel (1876-1940); Thomas Rowland Hill (1903-1967); Derek Richter (1907-1995). English recipe book ms. 7728 includes 2 C19th prescriptions for neurasthenia
Collections of Personal Papers: Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902); Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945); Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935); Sir Henry Head (1861-1940); Frederick Parkes Weber (1863-1962); Sir Charles Putnam Symonds (1890-1978); Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980); Marthe Vogt (1903-2003); William Walters Sargant (1907-1988); Ronald MacKeith
(1908-1977); Robert Henry Stewart Thompson (1912-1998); Henry McIlwain (1912-1992); Francis Crick (1916-2004); John A V Bates (1918-1993).
Records of Organisations: Brain Research Association (f. 1968); British Migraine Association (f. 1958) and the Migraine Trust (f. 1965); Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (f. 1953); Ratio Club (for the discussion of issues in cybernetics) (1944-1973) among papers of JAV Bates, q.v.; University of London Audio-Visual Centre, making
of videos on neurological subjects, 1970s.
The Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection includes some relevant items, mainly Second World War, see the index to this collection under heading 'Neurology'.
The Wellcome Foundation archives include some relevant material.
Surveys: The Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database has information on the whereabouts of the records, and details of the history, of over 3000 hospitals in the UK, including specialist nerve hospitals. There is also a Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey, 1600-1945, in repositories in the Greater London area.
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