Sphagnum Moss In Surgery: scrapbook
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 GC/166 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Sphagnum Moss In Surgery: scrapbook |
Date(s) | : 1915-1919 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 1 box |
Name of creator(s) | : Not given. |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Not given.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Scrapbook on the subject of the use of sphagnum moss as a sugical dressing. Contents include: Carbon copy report by Charles W Cathcart, MB, FRCS, to the Director General, Army Medical Services, Jan 1916; copies of correspondence between Sir Henry Morris, FRCS, and the Marquis of Breadalbane, Jan 1916; newspaper cuttings, 1915-1919 and photograph of 'Drying and packing at the Glenelg Hotel, September 1915'.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
As above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. 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:
Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This volume was given to the Wellcome Institute Library by the University of London Library in May 1975, and was transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archive Centre in August 1994. No further details of provenance are known.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2009
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