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: Library Address: Alverstoke Gosport City: Hampshire Zip / Postal Code: BA9 9EJ Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: (0) 23 9276 8238 Abstract: The main subject area is naval medicine and its history. The Historic Collections Library holds the amalgamated collections of the former Royal Naval Hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth, whose libraries were set up in 1827 and 1832 respectively. There is a run of the Navy List from 1814, with some omissions, and a complete run of Health of the Navy (1830s-1970s). Please note that service records, Medical Officers’ Journals, etc. are held at The National Archives, Kew. SERVICES: Fragile and historic material may not be copied; photocopying of other material may be carried out by arrangement, at the discretion of the librarian, who is the sole member of staff. There is no lending, but reference work is undertaken and bibliographies are compiled. Please contact Historic Collections Librarian, Jane Wickenden via email at INM-CS-InfoHistLib@mod.uk to obtain a visitors' guide. Holdings: It is not possible to provide an absolute breakdown of volumes by century, as cataloguing is not yet complete and the exact size of the collection has not been established. There are known to be no incunabula. Going by present trends, totals by century may be: 16th cent., 10+vols; 17th cent., 100+vols; 18th cent., 1600+ vols; 19th cent., 4140+vols., 20th cent., 1500+vols. There are no current journals, but several closed sequences of 18th and 19th century medical journals. There are 32 boxes of archive and photographic material, a few dozen pieces of artwork, less than a dozen manuscripts and a collection of surgical instruments, not all on display. Contact Name, Title: J.V.S. Wickenden, Historic Collections Librarian Contact Telephone Number: +44 (0) 23 9276 8238 Contact Email Address: INM-CS-InfoHistLib@mod.uk Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine, History of Military/Naval Medicine 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] Organization Type: Museum Address: The Parade Leamington Spa City: Warwickshire Zip / Postal Code: CV32 4AA Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: 1926 742703 Fax Number: 044 01926 742705 Abstract: The Art Gallery & Museum is based in the Royal Pump Rooms, which was a centre for spa treatments from 1814 until the 1990s. We have a collection of physiotherapy equipment which was used in the building, some of which is on display in our local history gallery. Visitors can also see our Victorian Hammam, which was recently restored to its 1860s appearance. Gallery open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. Thursday from 1:30 p.m. through 8:00 p.m., Sunday from 11:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m., and closed Monday (except Bank Holidays). Admission is free. Other items from our collections are available for viewing by appointment. Holdings: The following list gives details of some of the medical equipment which was used at the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa and was transferred to the Museum in 1998. Equipment from the Royal Pump Rooms: Treatment beds, Vichy Massage slab, Turkish bath lounger, Wheeled chair used to take people into the hydrotherapy pool, Cast iron bath, Sling suspension apparatus, Cervical traction harnesses, Lumbar traction harnesses, Bag and tongs for hot packs, Part of a physiotherapist's uniform, Pump Room towels, Infra-red lamps, UV lamps, Protective goggles, Medical cabinet. Short-wave therapy units, Microwave therapy unit, Inferential treatment unit, Progressive treatment unit, Food brace, Traction harnesses, Rack for use with zotofoam bath, Bottles of zotofoam extract, Bottle of surgical spirit, Bottle of paraffin liquid, Medal - distances of bathing places from London, Early X-ray apparatus used at Warneford Hospital - radiograph, Mineral water bottles, Leamington Board of Health medal, Tiles from Aylesford Well, Local Board of Health stamp 1852, Bath chair plate, Medal - Leamington Hospital senior cup (football). Other medical equipment: Dentists key (to extract teeth), Chemists glass tube, Gladstone bag, Macaura's Blood Circulator, Bone syringe, Magneto machine, X-ray apparatus, Scarifitor (for cupping/bleeding). The Art Gallery & Museum has a large collection of photographs and prints of the Royal Pump Rooms dating from the 19th century right up to the present day. This includes views of the exterior of the building as well as social events in the Café and Assembly Rooms, swimming in the public pools and photographs of various specialized baths and treatments in the hydrotherapy pool and physiotherapy department. The Museum collection includes a number of records and textbooks relating to spa water treatments and physiotherapy. In 2000 the Art Gallery established a new policy of collecting works of art in which artists explore the treatment or experience of physical and mental illness particularly that associated with spas. This new collection unites the history of the building with our collections of social history and historic and contemporary art. It also reflects current debates in contemporary visual art concerning art and science. The collection includes work in a range of media, schools and periods, from 18th century Dutch paintings, to Victorian portraits of local surgeons and single screen projections by major British artists. Contact Name, Title: Vicki Slade Contact Telephone Number: 044 1926 742703 Contact Email Address: vicki.slade@warwickdc.gov.uk Web Site: http://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms Collection Subject Strengths: History of Medicine, History of Spas and Spa Therapy 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]
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