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Donating to our Historic Collections

The College is keen to grow our collections relating to the history of medicine. Our focus is particularly on the...

Sir Alexander Morison’s The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases

Sir Alexander Morison (1779-1866) was an early forensic psychiatrist who specialised in mental and cerebral illness...

Morton’s Medical Bibliography

bibliography, n.

  • A list of the books of a particular author, printer, or country, or of those...

The history of germ theory in the College collections

Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bc)
De re rustica
Venice, 1514

The idea that certain diseases were...

The history of cancer in the College collections

Galen (130–200 ad)
De tumoribus praeter naturam
Basle, 1542

Galen considered neoplasms to be due...

Care of the elderly in the College collections

Tancred Robinson (d. 1748)
A letter giving an account of one Henry Jenkins a Yorkshire Man who attained the...

The James Young Simpson Diary

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Marginalia in Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1821)

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Paediatrics in the College Collections

Thomas Phayer (ca.1510-1560)
The boke of chyldren
London, 1553

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Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy

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