Organization Type: Archive Address: Edinburgh University Library George Square City: Edinburgh, Scotland Zip / Postal Code: EH8 9LJ Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: (0) 131 650 3392 Fax Number: +44 (0) 131 650 2922 Abstract: The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was founded in 1729. It established a professional archive service in 1968. In 1974, the remit of the archivist was widened to cover the entire Lothian Health Board Catchment Area. Since 1994 Edinburgh University Library has directly managed the Archive on behalf of the local National Health Service (NHS) founders of the Service. Generally open to the public, but appointments for new users are essential. Enquiries via email and web form are welcomed. Opening hours are Monday-Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.; Thursday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; vacation 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. Special permission is required to access personal health records, less than 100 years old. SERVICES: photocopying, photography, microfilming, and digital reprographics. Holdings: Administrative and clinical records of Institutions including: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Chalmers Hospital, Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children, Leith Hospital, City Hospital, Royal Maternity Hospital/Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School, South Eastern Regional Hospital Board, Lothian Health Board. Other major collections: personal papers of Alexander Murray Drennan (1884-1984), pathologist; Sir Derrick Melville Dunlop (1902-1980), Christison Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine; Ernst Julius Levin (1887-1975), neurologist; Elsie Stephenson (1916-1967), Director of Nursing Studies Unit. Institutional papers of Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary Samaritan Society, Edinburgh and Southeast Scotland Blood Transfusion Service. Also, clinical case note collection covering early 1900s to the present (over 1,000 shelf meters); photographic collection (c. 40,000 images); printed book collection relating to midwifery and mental health in Scotland; some artifacts. Contact Name, Title: Mike Barfoot, Archivist Contact Telephone Number: +44 (0) 131 650 3392 Contact Email Address: m.barfoot@ed.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Midwifery, History of Psychiatry [show all 4] Organization Type: Archive Address: 13 Thurso Street City: Glasgow, Scotland Zip / Postal Code: G11 6PE Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: 141 330 5515 Fax Number: +44 141 330 2640 Abstract: GUAFM: Records of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Science The fonds are comprised of the records created by the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University in it roles of research, teaching, and medico-legal work for the Crown authorities. There are seven series reflecting the range of functions of the department. Series include departmental administrative records (including teaching materials), case files relating to criminal and civil cases as well as enquiries made upon the department, police photographs, departmental photographs, and materials relating to the production of departmental publications including textbooks, articles, and reports. DC 403: Papers of John Glaister Senior (1856-1932) and John Glaister Junior (1892-1971), Professors of Forensic Medicine The fonds consists of the personal and family papers of both Glaisters. These include Glaister Senior's student papers, correspondence, genealogical materials, and scrapbooks. Glaister Junior's papers include correspondence, notes and lectures, material relating to his writing of novels and his autobiography, material relating to the two television programmes he became involved with, as well as photographs and scrapbooks. Access Restrictions: Due to the Data Protection regulations, access to the records of the Department of Forensic Medicine [GUA FM] are restricted. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, personal data held on individuals is protected. Additional access restrictions are in place where material is deemed sensitive even though the data subject may be dead. Details of which records are restricted can be found in our online finding aids. There are no access restrictions on the Papers of John Glaister Senior (1856-1932) and John Glaister Junior (1892-1971), Professors of Forensic Medicine [DC 403]. These are open to anyone to consult. Reseachers may submit an application to access restricted materials providing they agree to certain obligations which enable Glasgow University Archive Services (GUAS) to protect the rights of data subjects as stipulated in the Data Protection Act. Holdings: GB 0248 GUAFM: Records of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Science; 1905-1984, 271 cm of textual records, 839 photographs, and c. 800 glass slides. GB 0248 DC 403: Papers of John Glaister Senior (1856-1932) and John Glaister Junior (1892-1971), Professors of Forensic Medicine 1837-1984, 43 cm of textual records and 120 photographs. Contact Name, Title: Duty Archivist Contact Telephone Number: +44 141 330 5515 Contact Email Address: dutyarch@archives.gla.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.gla.ac.uk/archives/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Forensic Medicine, History of Medicine, History of Pathology Organization Type: Archive, Library Address: 232-242 St. Vincent Street City: Glasgow, Scotland Zip / Postal Code: G2 5RJ Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: 141 221 6072 Fax Number: +44 141 221 1804 Abstract: The College was founded in 1599 and the Library in 1698. The Library provides a service to Fellows and Members and all interested in the history of medicine, particularly in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Written, email and fax requests are welcome. The library's online catalogue is available at <a href="http://knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home/library-search.aspx" > http://knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home/library-search.aspx </a>. Please note that currently about a third of the College's total holdings of approximately 31,500 volumes are available on the online catalogue. The Library is open from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm Monday - Friday. Visitors are requested to make an appointment. Holdings: The College Library contains many of the key medical, anatomical and surgical texts of the 16th and 17th centuries, being particularly strong in the areas of anatomy, medicine, surgery, botany and materia medica in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The library of Dr William Mackenzie (1791-1868), founder of the Glasgow Eye Infirmary is held as a separate collection. There are, as a consequence, good holdings in historical material relating to the diseases and surgery of the eye. Local historians are well served by the Glasgow Collection consisting of works relating to the history of Glasgow and the West of Scotland. There are just over 100 archive collections including the papers of Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932), Sir William Macewen (1848-1924) and Dr William Mackenzie (1791-1868). Contact Name, Title: Carol Parry, Archivist Contact Telephone Number: +44 141 227 3234 Contact Email Address: carol.parry@rcpsg.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/library.aspx Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Botany, History of Medicine [show all 6] Organization Type: Archive, Library Address: Library and Information Services Swansea University Singleton Park City: Swansea Zip / Postal Code: SA2 8PP Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: (0)1792 295821 Abstract: The SWCC has its origins in the 1970s, when the Departments of History and Economic History at Swanswa University hosted two projects funded by the Social Science Research Council to preserve written and oral evidence of coal miners and coal mining in the region at a time when the industry had started to decline and these records were in danger of being lost. Substantial deposits have been made to create a unique collection of international significance. The SWCC contains a variety of medica. Over 700 linear metres of documents are held, which include books, periodicals, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings as well as records of the South Wales Miners' Federation and the National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales Area), miners' lodges and institutes, and the personal papers of miners. There are also more than 4,000 photographs, 600 hours of oral history interviews, 200 hours of video footage, over 100 posters, and 42 trade union banners. The Collection is essentially a reference facility, with provision for limited photocopying where appropriate. For manuscript material and photographs, please contact the South Wales Coalfield Archive at +44 (0)1792 295021. For printed material, banners and audio-visual collections, please contact the South Wales Miner's Library at +44 (0)1792 518603 Holdings: In 2005 the Collection received a Research Resources in Medical History Award from the Wellcome Trust. As a result, its medical holdings - previously largely hidden are searchable on the Coalfield Web Materials site (www.agor.org.uk/cwm). The SWCC is strong on occupational health, notably mining-specific diseases, other work-related illness and disability, accidents, and safety and welfare. In addition, there are rich holdings that relate to the health of the community, in particular community disease, personal illness and disability, housing and public sanitation, maternal and child health, food and nutrition, healthcare personnel, medical institutions, and medical insurance and medical aid societies. Contact Name, Title: Elisabeth Bennett, Archivist Contact Telephone Number: +44 (0)1792 295021 Contact Email Address: e.a.bennett@swan.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.swan.ac.uk/iss/archive-and-research-collections/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Medicine, History of Preventive or Occupational Medicine, History of Public Health [show all 4] Organization Type: Museum Address: 9A St Thomas' Street Southmark City: London Zip / Postal Code: SE1 9RY Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: 0207 188 2679 Fax Number: +0207 378 8383 Abstract: The Museum exists in the roof of St Thomas Church London, which is a Grade 2* building built in 1703. When closed in 1862 due to the relocation of St Thomas' Hospital, to Lambeth, London, the hospital architecture was missing from history and for nearly one hundred years until its rediscovery in 1956. This public museum consists of Herb Garret and the Women's Operating Theatre of Old St Thomas' Hospital built in 1822 and holds displays on the history of medicine and herb use of the old (United) Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London. Displays on the history of medicine contain more than 1,000 nineteenth century surgical and pharmaceutical objects. A panoramic film is available online alongside some objects of the museums' is accessible via the Museum's website <a href="http://www.thegarret.org.uk/tour.htm" > http://www.thegarret.org.uk/tour.htm </a>. Holdings: The Museum does not have its own archive on site. The Museum exists in the roof of a church and consists of the eighteenth century oak beamed Herb Garret and nineteenth century women's Operating Theatre of Old St Thomas' Hospital. The Old Operating Theatre was in use from 1822-62, for women patients only and due to its dates, saw little use of anaesthesia. No antiseptic procedure or hand washing was ever undertaken in the theater. The Museum holds over 1,000 historical medical instruments including: a nineteenth century wooden operating table, a nineteenth century carbolic spray used at Guy's Hospital, nineteenth century amputation, trephination, obstetric and anaesthetic instruments and equipment. The collection also holds late nineteenth century anatomical teaching models and nineteenth century pharmaceutical equipment from carboys shop rounds through to pill making. Some archive material is accessible via the Museum website. Contact Name, Title: Karen Howell, Curator Contact Telephone Number: +0207 188 2679 Contact Email Address: curator@thegarret.org.uk Web Site: http://oldoperatingtheatre.com/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine, History of Pharmacology and Pharmacy [show all 5]
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