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Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8109-8112, 8114-8120, 8122, 8234-8255 & 8968-8989

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)

Date(s): 1928-1933

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 52 files, 1 brochure

Name of creator(s): Harris | David Fraser | Fraser- | 1867-1937

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

David Fraser Fraser-Harris (1867-1937) was employed by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Research notes and drafts relating to two major works by Fraser-Harris. MSS.8109-8112, 8114-8120 and 8122 relate to the history of antisepsis and the essay 'Antiseptics before Lister: a historico-medical survey', which was the Prize Essay in the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1932/3. MSS.8236-8255 and 8968-8989 relate to The History and Lore of Cymric Medicine, a proposed Wellcome Historical Medical Museum study that was never published. Wellcome and Fraser-Harris died close to one another and the momentum of the project was lost.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Mrs Fraser-Harris, 1937, or transferred from WHMM filing cabinets, January 1957. Accessions 69827, 69826 and 96000.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Animal experimentation | Experimental methods | Scientific methods
Antisepsis | Infection control | Communicable disease control | Public health practice | Public health | Health
Blood transfusion | Biological therapy | Therapy | Medical sciences
Disease outbreaks | Public health | Health
Health policy | Health
History of medicine | History
Hospitals | Health services
Medicine, traditional | Culture
Sanatoria | Medical institutions | Health services
Sweating sickness | Fever | Diseases | Pathology
Public health x Health policy
Therapeutics x Therapy
Body temperature changes

Personal names
Harris | David Fraser | Fraser- | 1867-1937

Corporate names
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Places